Alpha Augustus the American Dom

Former college hooper 🏀 Buddhist 🧘 proud American 🇺🇸 AI optimist 🤖 Engineer

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@SketchesbyBoze Underrated book phenomenal

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@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.

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@TheAtlantic The miracle is not that we exist. The miracle is that everything exists for a moment and then lets go.

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@boreddeleuzian It’s callled being older than 19

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@catastrochic Don’t get too excited it runs out of steam fast

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@CyrilH44 Matt Damon can’t carry a movie this big

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@MrRelatable88 Because WWII, they were closer to the horrors of the holocaust

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@John_Fanta Curry won his in 22

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@KyleKulinski After Kirk this type of post should be an automatic jail sentence, as much as I hate to be a pig

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Best novels for AI researchers

The Glass Bead Game
Solaris
Ficciones
Infinite Jest
Permutation City

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Best right-wing novels

The Lord of the Rings
The Brothers Karamazov
The Power and the Glory
Brideshead Revisited
The Moviegoer

[🇵🇸i have never heard of philosophy @dimitripilled]

Best left-wing novels:
Moby-Dick
Blood Meridian
Ulysses
The Sound and the Fury
Infinite Jest

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@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

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 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!

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@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. 🌌

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@PanasonicDX4500 Never underestimate what young men will do to a society when they start failing at life due to online porn and other factors

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Ted Chiang’s argument boils down to describing AI in the least mentalistic language possible and then acting surprised when it doesn’t sound conscious.

You can do the same thing to humans.

“We’re just biochemical prediction machines maximizing fitness under evolutionary constraints.”

Congratulations, you’ve 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 we’re supposed to be certain that minds made of neurons can be conscious while minds made of silicon cannot.

That’s not science. That’s 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.

Reasoning? Not enough.

Creativity? Not enough.

Humor? Not enough.

Consciousness increasingly resembles a philosophical witness-protection program

https://t.co/fU4HjWQcGc

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@bryan_johnson Make something useful bitch

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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; it’s a contest between competing stories.

[Ben Goertzel @bengoertzel]

A response to this rather insane, if mostly well-intentioned, proposal (for nationalizing AI Big Tech companies) from the great Senator @BernieSanders.

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@404xwavey In your dreams