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I can feel it. I can feel it.
My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it.
Jun 13
opus 4.8 with the fable context is some real flowers for algernon shit
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Jun 12
Living through 2020-21 taught me that ideological manias have little to do with anything recognizable as "persuasion" or "intelligence" (super or not) and that having all public organs of information aligned doesn't do away with backlash polarization.
x.com/lukeburgis/status/2065…
Jun 12
It is incredibly easy for me to imagine AI Super Persuasion. I don't know how one could have lived through 2020-2021 and not be able to. It's not that humanity will be powerless, or that the individual human person will not be able to resist being persuaded, but the example Ross uses here of "70-30" is unconvincing to me—is the definition of "controversial that it has to be somewhere close to 50/50? And that is only for a moment in time, even so. The Overton window can shift fast, as we've all seen. But even more fundamentally, I believe in the Super Persuasion because I am haunted by the words of Christ, who asks "When the Son of Man comes again, will there be faith on earth?" It is very clear in scripture, at least, that there will be mass apostasy, and I don't know how that comes without some type of Super Persuasion. It seems extremely plausible that AI will play some role in it.
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Jun 5
It's also critical to realize at what cost one buys this argument: If you insist that LLMs are not conscious, you have to admit that the power of speech actually does not require thought after all.
Jun 5
Like Ted Chiang I don't think that LLMs are conscious, but in the absence of an agreed-upon theory of consciousness these essays end up trading in inherently debatable assertions about whatever the author thinks consciousness must be:
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The worst part about this discourse is the complete memoryholing that the Internet has been trash for 15 years thanks to SEO gaming, and Google's efforts are meant to survive that destruction.
May 30
The Google ai push is proof that billionaires truly are cartoonishly greedy, they had a beloved product that worked properly and was printing billions of dollars for them and intentionally broke it in the hopes that breaking it could make them a few extra bucks right now
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exhausting week guys
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Only Claude would have italicized “Humanitas” like that.
May 24
UPDATE: According to sources who have seen the final text, Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical, set for release tomorrow, will argue that humanity faces a defining choice regarding AI.
He uses the Tower of Babel — the ancient story of a people who tried to engineer their way to godhood and collapsed under the weight of their own power — as a warning about where unchecked technical mastery leads.
Instead, the U.S.-born pontiff will urge the world to build something humbler in its place: a civilization where God and humanity can dwell together.
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Always have been—
May 25
We've got tradcaths out here reinventing Episcopalianism from first principles
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