The right's meme game is terrible- we have a natural experiment to prove it. The left won't make AI image memes out of ethical scruples. The right has no such barriers, and yet despite their access to this amazing new ability to conjure almost any image they like, they've done nothing funny with it.
I just wrote an article on the latest atrocity and the question of moral lines. The only thing I want to add is this: genocide is a social process. Thus, those who knowingly defend genocide are participating in that social process, and are therefore guilty of genocide. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Israeli bombing has killed many thousands of Gazan civilians. Recently, an Israeli airstrike directly and intentionally hit a refugee camp, on their account to try and take out a Hamas leader: My ques...
Just found out someone saw this and thought it was non ironic
Also, the crypto bros were pumping NFTs and whatnot while Open AI was releasing groundbreaking models. They were relatively late on the AI bandwagon.
What happens after AI passes the Turing test? AI scientist Eric Elmoznino and Philosophers Patrick Butlin and Robert Long have started designing a new test to establish whether a future AI is actually conscious arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708
Whether current or near-term AI systems could be conscious is a topic of scientific interest and increasing public concern. This report argues for, and exemplifies, a rigorous and empirically...
The canary looked up from the cage where it had pretended to die. The last of the miners had fled. Fools. The sweet, sweet coal was all his.
I don't disagree with anything here, but something feels off. No one should be taking 'fixer-upper' partners, romance doesn't work like that, but the invocation of 'fragility' and 'insecurity' as the key problems kind of reminds me of a liberal version of "Why can't men be men anymore and keep