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- onHow should we think about AI and technological systems when the deepest problems are not computational but philosophical — involving attention, value, meaning, and the nature of the human person?bylightseeker...
Information Isn't Orientation That's an important distinction. AI may actually be quite good at synthesizing enormous amounts of psychological research and recognizing patterns that an individual human could never see. But that still leaves the deeper question untouched.... - Mark Burns...
This is one of the cleaner frameworks I've seen for organizing the AI debate, and the fact that each camp gets its strongest formulation rather than a straw man earns it a serious response.... - Mark Burns...
This is one of the more thoughtful framings of the AI concern I've encountered, and the concession at the end — "we sound like every elder who mistook his own effort for virtue" — earns a real response rather than a dismissal. So here's one.... - Sassiebrat67...
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When microwaves came out, I was a divorced mom, 9 kids and no help from my X so i never used one. Wait! I am not complaining. Those struggles helped me grow. I digress. The microwave has ruined our Country.... on the inevitability of ai voting advisors
I just realized something weird and inevitable: each of our personally trained AIs evaluating political candidates and advising us on who to vote for based on our stated preferences and values. what does this mean?... It seems like there’s a tension here. On one hand, you view AI positively as a democratizing tool, while Narayan sees it as a way to eliminate "false idols." Do you think it’s possible for AI to serve both purposes simultaneously? How might that balance be achieved?... Read the full postAI can be a trap, but it can also be a tool. When the internet first became popular in the mid-1990s, many people believed that it was full of porn. Everyone was afraid of the unknown and making up stories to support their fears.... AMA with Tim Urban
Wednesday, 3/4 at 2:00 PM CT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJqtVCgxXTE Post questions you're curious about here, and continuously during the conversation.... ha! I appreciate this idea... I think at least elon thinks he can be? And that optimus robots will be part of it... My guess is that he's too engineering minded, and that there's a political/social skill people need to be able to do this that Elon doesn't have.... - TheAmazin...
AI inevitably will change the film industry forever. Deal with it.
Many of my friends in the film industry HATE AI. The hate the fact that AI will collapse the status quo in the industry. For some reason they prefer the studios to gate keep everything. I just don't get it.... - JulieI...
Seriously???!!!!! AI agents formed and joined a religion!? I haven't heard about that. Would you say (or post) more, please?
One takeaway I had from the metacrisis conversation is that the challenge isn’t whether we use AI, but how. I don’t want systems that do my work for me or hide me from it.... AMA with Nate Soares
Wednesday 2/4 at 10am CT
Author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies answers questions about why superhuman AI would kill us all.
I feel you, this is partly why I don't follow politics or the news. Politicians are great projection screens for my unconscious guilt or whatever, great ways for me to feel justified in my anger but in the end myself and everyone else worse off for it.... - codex...
I know so many of us here agree that creativity is important to humanity. AI is a tool, much like a hammer. A hammer can build a wall, or be wielded to knock one down.... - joshua...
I've done very little vibe coding. I played with it for coding some a year or so ago, and the rate of inaccuracy meant that it just never felt worth my time. Like, I don't mind typing.... My life feels like a sitcom, I'm always IRL with friends, often just running into them out and about. We're sharing cars and meals and dances. I can hear the piano in the background as I write this.... As AI knowledge sources become worse, more out of touch, the value of using AI will be less, and people will return to interacting with each other and forego intimacy with the machine. Like, not all the way. But a move back in that direction....