How to Survive AI

The ongoing functionality of Wikipedia relies on an army of software agents – bots – to enforce and maintain correct formatting, build connections between articles, and moderate conflicts and incidences of vandalism. At the last survey, bots counted for seventeen of the top twenty most prolific editors and collectively make about 16 per cent of all

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I I really think that creativity is going to become a lot more important and surprise and personality and originality like

that's the premium that will'll be placed on that is going to like change dramatically in the coming years and so whatever mindset that I carried around like quantity is is so not going to serve me that that I am I I find that a

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Let me answer your implicit complaint: “The Turing Test will be eventually passed.” That’s right (in some settings, Turing’s original prediction has been already achieved), but the truth is that any human relationship — even digital ones, even those not especially intimate like the ones between writers and readers (I love you, though) — requires mu... See more

Capture inspiring information. Our digital environments need to be inspiring as we spend the majority of our days in it. Your second brain is one of the few spaces (digital or physical) that you truly control. So why not make it to your liking? https://t.co/tsC3DseDgz

The language of "tasks" enables white-collar Taylorism. We should push back.

Intelligence is moving from human-scale to machine-scale. AI will be to the mind what the automobile was to the city… https://t.co/NcBspApI1t

In the Prologue to The Human Condition, with the promise that automation would empty the factories, Hannah Arendt worried that “it is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the fetters of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaninfgul activities for the sake of which this freedom would deser

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All six said that Lavender had played a central role in the war, processing masses of data to rapidly identify potential “junior” operatives to target. Four of the sources said that, at one stage early in the war, Lavender listed as many as 37,000 Palestinian men who had been linked by the AI system to Hamas or PIJ.

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Yet, the hidden machinations behind everyone’s favorite social media and search platforms are engineered to exploit our primal instincts for validation, status, and mimetic desires (adopting or pursuing preferences and aspirations based on the influence of others rather than our intrinsic motivations), morphing into a manipulative force that feeds ... See more