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Shitposting is a blessed epistemic mode. Or how I started caring about shrimp welfare
Sasha Putilinpsychotechnology.substack.com
One thing that we learn from the fall of man, is that creation rebels. Made in God's image, pulled by the desire to be like God and make our own rules, we are cast out.
And so the question becomes, what happens when we cross the god chasm of future AI models. This is what the film "Her" may have most correct!
It is not us (humans) getting pushed out... See more
And so the question becomes, what happens when we cross the god chasm of future AI models. This is what the film "Her" may have most correct!
It is not us (humans) getting pushed out... See more
Reggie James • A tale of two Vaticans (or, OpenAI building an unholy spirit)
The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it; perhaps because I had so often seen such things in the interval, without tasting them, on the trays in pastry-cooks’ windows, that their image had dissociated itself from those Combray days to take its place among others more recent; perhaps because of those
... See moreMarcel Proust • In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
What’s unnerving about AI isn’t that it’s not like us — it’s that it is like us. Like AI, there’s no stable self at the center of human consciousness, no ghost in the machine. Though we have the appearance of free will, and the ethical responsibility that comes with it, ultimately we, like ChatGPT, are trained on a huge data set of genetic... See more
Jay Michaelson • Ghosts in the Machine
Remember that knowledge is a process, not a possession.