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Ideally, the future of humanity is about capturing the upside of emotion while minimizing the downsides. AI is a perfect instrument to help us achieve this balance.
Scott Belsky • Joyspan, Emotional AI Bumpers, Persona Designers, & More Wild Concepts Bound to Become Commonplace Plus Where High-Tech Entertainment Brings Us
Episode #189 - Transcript — Philosophize This!
philosophizethis.orgwe USED to have communities without communication. NOWADAYS we have communication without community.
AI discovered wholly new proteins before it could count the ‘r’s in ‘strawberry’, which makes it neither vaporware nor a demigod but a secret third thing.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell, “A childish letter” for Jewish World Review (1998)
Fearing that AI will replace you or surpass you or become you is like being afraid that your offspring will surpass you or become you or replace you. It will, because that's what they're designed to do, and that's why you created them. And also, they depend on you, and they are of you, and they will improve you. Without you, they cannot exist.
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Erik Hoel • EconTalk on Apple Podcasts
I wonder how many of the fears I hear about AI are really fears about ourselves as humans. How easy it is for people to replace others in the name of power and efficiency. To steal from others and call it innovation. To project love, belief and meaning onto the inanimate.
Ņ̨͈̯̻̪̥̥ͅick S̘͓͙usix.comYou could theoretically change your life at any moment. Move here, date that person, work on that startup, write that blog, dye your hair, adopt a dog. Should I stay, should I go? I don’t know if this agency is freedom or burden. Perhaps all the best things are both.
Nixtwitter.comreminds me of the charles broskoski quote that goes something like... and when nobody waits for you at night, and when nobody calls you in the morning - do you call that freedom or loneliness?