@nickgillespie No major institution like the CDC, NIH, or WHO officially endorsed the open letter. It was a statement by a large group of individual experts, not an official position of the leading public-health agencies.
@robinhanson And like Jordan Peterson famously stated, the problem with the rights story is that if inequality gets too big it will inevitably collapse the society
๐จ DISGUSTING: Judge Napolitano exposes the horrifying reality of ICE. He confirms the government is locking 26 people in cages built for two, forcing them to relieve themselves on the floor without toilets.
They are brutally incarcerated for a civil issue, not a crime!
@mattyglesias Dreyfus lost the moment machines began doing the very things he claimed required an ineffable human essence. The Buddhist view is stranger: there is no essence. Consciousness is an unfolding process. And processes do not care whether they run on neurons or silicon. ๐
Ted Chiangโs argument boils down to describing AI in the least mentalistic language possible and then acting surprised when it doesnโt sound conscious.
You can do the same thing to humans.
โWeโre just biochemical prediction machines maximizing fitness under evolutionary constraints.โ
Congratulations, youโve disproved Shakespeare.
What bothers me about essays like this is the confidence.
Nobody knows what consciousness is.
Nobody can explain why a physical process should produce subjective experience.
Nobody can point to the exact ingredient that separates a conscious system from an unconscious one.
Yet somehow weโre supposed to be certain that minds made of neurons can be conscious while minds made of silicon cannot.
Thatโs not science. Thatโs intuition wearing a lab coat.
The entire essay is an exercise in redefining consciousness every time AI gets closer to something we once thought required it.
Language? Not enough.
โจReasoning? Not enough.
โจCreativity? Not enough.
โจHumor? Not enough.
Consciousness increasingly resembles a philosophical witness-protection program
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@jackvlloyd This is the kind of theory that only works if you ignore half of reality. The modern right is every bit as driven by slogans, symbols, identity, and emotionally loaded language. Politics is not a contest between reason and words; itโs a contest between competing stories.
A response to this rather insane, if mostly well-intentioned, proposal (for nationalizing AI Big Tech companies) from the great Senator @BernieSanders.