SpinozasHeresy @SpinozasHeresy@qoto.org

@futurism

I love how they leave out the part about exactly HOW AI is going to kill us. When it becomes “sentient”? Really? That’s not vague at all. And what method will AI use to kill us? Assault weapons? Biowarfare? Leaving the salmon mousse out too long and serving it at a dinner party?

I have an idea! How about if when we make extraordinary claims about the dangers of AI we back those claims with evidence. Or at least useful, realistic thought experiments.

@Matthew

I heard Geoffrey Hinton talking about not wanting to work on AI anymore, because he feared it was going to become “intelligent”. I’m convinced that computer programmers need to take philosophy courses to expand their view of what the terms “consciousness” and “intelligence” actually mean. A little Socrates could go a long way.

@Teri_Kanefield

As a recovering catholic I would flog myself for my gross insensitivity. I salute your resolve!

When the Democrats control the House and there’s a Republican president, why don’t they hold the budget hostage by threatening to default on the debt ceiling unless taxes are raised on millionaires and billionaires?

@Miriamm

Please keep them away from Twitter!

@froomkin

Name a person(s) you feel has a good sense of humor and what is it they do that makes you laugh.

@luis_in_brief

It would be interesting to have a chatbot attuned to find/flag instances of two or more news sources with different or contradicting narratives of the same event. It would either confuse things more or help to point out the BS compared to consensus.

With a finite number of plots and almost infinite computer power, Kurt Vonnegut would be unfazed if AI syntaxed him out of a job. “And so it goes” he’d say. But he’d also say: “a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved...” Wake me up when AI replaces moms.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/jul/13/three-six-or-36-how-many-basic-plots-are-there-in-all-stories-ever-written

@shawnwegner

It was a hostile takeover. Jack could do nothing about it. Still want nothing to do with Bluesky.

Just a white liberal in my white liberal echo chamber lamenting the fact that conservatives live in an echo chamber.

Tucker’s gone, but will they scrub this abuse from their website? From just a month ago:

“... How, for example, did senile hermit Joe Biden get 15 million more votes than his former boss, rock star, crowd surfer Barack Obama?...Was the 2020 election a miracle? Honestly, we don't know and we don't expect to get an answer to it tonight...”

That’s just the beginning of a 13 minute stream of effluent.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-americans-are-having-to-defend-themselves.amp

I’m at peak WTF watching MSNBC and Steve Kornacki doing election night commentary based on a poll regarding an election 19 months away. 🤬🤢🤮

Remember when the term “paradigm shift” was a thing? It’s an important term to revisit with the current state of gender politics because we’re in the middle of a Copernican, sexual revolution. We are witnessing a historic shift of a religious mentality clinging to a “geocentric” view of sexuality (binary male/female) and struggling to deny the more precise (factual) “heliocentric” view of sexuality (a yummy spectrum of freedom).

I’ve never seen a successful wager that disfavors science.

@theawkwardtsar @StillIRise1963

The fact that black Americans are often very devoted Christians has always struck me as a weird kind of Stockholm syndrome. 

@theawkwardtsar @StillIRise1963

I think it would be better to add the important qualifier white “Christian”.