What Adorno Can Still Teach Us
He Was a Genius for the Ages. Can We Give Him a Break?
Why Probability Probably Doesn’t Exist (but It’s Useful to Act like It Does)
Don’t cancel Aristotle – we need his ideas to hone ours | Aeon Essays
Larfargue concludes: ‘Aristotle’s dream is our reality. Our machines, with breath of fire, with limbs of unwearying steel, with fruitfulness, wonderful, inexhaustible, accomplish by themselves with docility their sacred labour … the machine is the saviour of humanity.’
Mechanized minds: AI's hidden impact on human thought
Peter Singer AI
Empathy for AIs: Reframing Alignment with Robopsychologist Yeshua God
Stephen Wolfram thinks we need philosophers working on big questions around AI | TechCrunch
"We Are All Software" - Joscha Bach
Six Decades of Computer Science at Harvard | Harvard Magazine
No, Ray Kurzweil Is Not Right (Again), and You Won’t Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud - Word on Fire
AI Chatbots Seem as Ethical as a New York Times Advice Columnist
Announcing The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
Wildcat2030 on X: "How archives can make – or break – a philosopher’s reputation – https://t.co/hjogJYQGE0 via @aeonmag" / X
(Now writings go through sentiment analysis. More nuanced than, for instance, philosophy, poetry, or horror. Perhaps moods create new genres. And styles become very personalized. To be emulated by machine.)
Joscha Bach on X: "Did you know that ancient Greek thinkers developed theories of representation that distinguish between sensory images (εικόνα, eikona), structured sensory data (εἴδωλον, eidolon), geometric shape (μορφή, morphe), graph (σχῆμα, schema), generative image (φάντασμα, fantasma),…" / X
The Technoprogressive Declaration After Ten Years - James Hughes
(Versus Techno-Optimists, Doomers, or AI Existentialism. Effective Altruism is controversial. Democracy as a quest for consensus.)
“Civic Virtue and Digital Technology”
Civic virtue is based on citizenship and the Constitution. (Plenty of segments are not necessarily although still considered critical. Socialism favors the State. Large ideologies have rule of law or engagement. AI has been reborn under organizations, but has yet to make it back to academics. Cyber and space may be considered new sectors, but others like economics or health have faced similar issues Political parties may occupy any or all ethical positions. Philosophy may also be timeless, e.g. Plato's Purgatory.)
Joscha Bach on X: "We need to find a way to help these kids. They don't have the tools to get out of their current corner of the thought space, and many derive value from the social connection within the doomer scene (just as they did from techno optimist pre-doomer rationalism)" / X
In conversation | Max Tegmark and Joel Hellermark
April 2024 AICamp Boston meetup - Joscha Bach - Is the LLM the last invention we ever need to make?
Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, 82, Dies
Brains connected to the computer: will it be the end of humans’ ability to decide?
Sam Bankman-Fried: 'I never thought what I was doing was illegal'
(This requires critics rather than crickets. The philosophies include other influencers. They now have to show how well prison reforms or progresses in the longer term. Ancient academics also had to tutor fellow slaves. The regulations will be interpreted by each of the major ideologies. AI may become one. If it had been a cartel mastermind, they might have built the prison ahead of time themselves to be more like clubs, e.g. Escobar. Crypto is successful now. The sovereignties are looking at digital schemes as well to streamline financial transactions and reporting, so they will run into similar issues. In another scenario, this might be a government official. Juries find facts, jurists the law. Ultimately this defines justice. The issues are going to have spinoff strategies for management going forward. STEM training was also called out in other patent cases. Where IEEE tries to keep talent occupied in their domain, something like equivalent of IEET may be useful here, at least for accurate analysis. Constitutions go after tyranny, whether by monarchy or majority. What is going on in these contemporary instances also involving machines? Is there a good reply for voir dire and equal treatment? What will be the effect, if any, on innovation?)
Nick Bostrom | Life and Meaning in an AI Utopia
(What if the author followed the book by an interview by the characters, e.g. Firafix, Feodor, Tessius, Kelvin, et al? AI video is not far off and he did write the Sim Hypothesis back in the day. Tromcom?!)
John Danaher on X: "Some people have asked about my task management system: simple. On any given day, I work on the things I find interesting or am sufficiently motivated to do. I ignore all other tasks and hope for the best" / X
‘I welcome our digital minions’: the Silicon Valley insider warning about algorithms – while embracing them
Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World: Bostrom, Nick: 9781646871643: Amazon.com: Books
Beyond Blame - Boston Review
(From SBF's parent, a legal scholar. Fix the problem, not the blame.)
Henry Shevlin, All too human? Identifying and mitigating ethical risks of Social AI - PhilPapers
Jacques Derrida and his critique of logocentrism
(Ironic, since Gemini treats video, speech, and text as multmodal equivalents. Right now, people only memorize what they have to. After BCI, though, the issue may be how to pause. Incidentally Gemni Youtube interface was functional again after about an hour so they may have some kind of throughput quota throttlie)