Having now read the article I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of this flowery humanist language by those wary of AI. It all tends to boil down to the same underlying theme that the works of AI are unnatural, soulless and only that which comes directly from a human's toil can ever be soulful, mindful or transcendent. Lots of warnings that AI has the potential to rob us of some innate essence that makes humanity and our doings so great etc. etc.
It's all a bit too luddite and short-sighted for my liking. It's a philosophy that ascribes this haughty sense of holiness to human consciousness and what it produces. I'm of the mind that our brains and the consciousness therein are just biological machines, moving electrons and writing memories no different than computers. Love is a chemical cocktail. Hate much the same. That we see, say, a beautiful painting that moves us isn't due to the humanity of the painter but to that painting triggering mental processes in us that cause specific chemicals to hit specific receptors in a process we define as the experience of emotion. I find it ludicrous to say AI producing the same result in us is somehow less valid because AI did it instead of another person.
I mentioned the short-sighted nature these types of arguments tend to have. They almost never play the technology forward to when AI LLMs are all but obsolete and we're in the realm of AGI. What happens to these flowery notions of the primacy of consciousness when the AIs are conscious? Does the art AI creates then suddenly gain this mythic soulfulness these types of arguments deny they posses today?
It seems like these arguments are setting up this budding sort of AI racism, getting their "Humans are better because humanity FTW, philosophy" all ready just in case some AI gets uppity one day and starts calling itself a person.
Anyway my philosophy on AI is to let it do all the things. Let it capture every industry, every job, all of it. Let the AI and robots do everything and get them to the point where they do it all amazingly well. Let humans finally fucking chill out. We are due as a species for some fully automated, leisurely, heaven on earth type living. Everyone free to do whatever they want whenever they want. No work unless you want to work on something while surrounded by awesome tech we can only dream of because AI figured out some crazy sci-fi level physics and now we can teleport and have holodecks and not age and shit. All these "but muh humanity" motherfuckers need to go like read some poetry and just stay out of the way.
That we should promote the site with a "Free the Fap" event to destigmatize public masturbation. I think it was more like people didn't get that I was joking.
Wipes FTW. Back in my broke days I knew I was living large when I could afford to splurge on mouthwash and baby wipes. It was like ghetto fabulousness achieved.
I mean yeah you can go to Google News and search for "craft of non-human origin" and there's a bunch of results detailing the same story. Two ex military intel guys with top secret clearance whistleblowing about recovered alien craft with one having given a classified congressional report on it. Crazy stuff.
Greentext option seems a lil hidden. Like it's not something you can just select in the comment editor, you gotta know it requires a leading greater-than symbol. Maybe you chan vets are used to it but it's new to a Reddit refugee like myself.
I wonder how doable that is technically. Seems easy enough to enforce a limit to one user account. But what about alt accounts? What about users who run alt accounts trough a VPN or other proxy which defeats an IP or location based approach? What about the edge cases? Two mods at the limit on a public or shared device? One logs out and then another uses that device and because whatever measure sees both accounts on the same device the accounts are flagged as one single user violating the mod limit even though neither has?
Enforcement of a mod limit at scale could be a recipe for an unmanageable game of whack-a-mole. Also I'm unsure if or how much Mainchan allowing anonymous mods might throw a wrench in the works.
Just spitballing here, Cicero might know of some method that makes it super easy *shrug*
Having now read the article I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of this flowery humanist language by those wary of AI. It all tends to boil down to the same underlying theme that the works of AI are unnatural, soulless and only that which comes directly from a human's toil can ever be soulful, mindful or transcendent. Lots of warnings that AI has the potential to rob us of some innate essence that makes humanity and our doings so great etc. etc.
It's all a bit too luddite and short-sighted for my liking. It's a philosophy that ascribes this haughty sense of holiness to human consciousness and what it produces. I'm of the mind that our brains and the consciousness therein are just biological machines, moving electrons and writing memories no different than computers. Love is a chemical cocktail. Hate much the same. That we see, say, a beautiful painting that moves us isn't due to the humanity of the painter but to that painting triggering mental processes in us that cause specific chemicals to hit specific receptors in a process we define as the experience of emotion. I find it ludicrous to say AI producing the same result in us is somehow less valid because AI did it instead of another person.
I mentioned the short-sighted nature these types of arguments tend to have. They almost never play the technology forward to when AI LLMs are all but obsolete and we're in the realm of AGI. What happens to these flowery notions of the primacy of consciousness when the AIs are conscious? Does the art AI creates then suddenly gain this mythic soulfulness these types of arguments deny they posses today?
It seems like these arguments are setting up this budding sort of AI racism, getting their "Humans are better because humanity FTW, philosophy" all ready just in case some AI gets uppity one day and starts calling itself a person.
Anyway my philosophy on AI is to let it do all the things. Let it capture every industry, every job, all of it. Let the AI and robots do everything and get them to the point where they do it all amazingly well. Let humans finally fucking chill out. We are due as a species for some fully automated, leisurely, heaven on earth type living. Everyone free to do whatever they want whenever they want. No work unless you want to work on something while surrounded by awesome tech we can only dream of because AI figured out some crazy sci-fi level physics and now we can teleport and have holodecks and not age and shit. All these "but muh humanity" motherfuckers need to go like read some poetry and just stay out of the way.
Looks cool. I'll have to try it out next time I hit a paywall.
Doing God's work, thanks anon.
Walled. Not gonna sign up for an account, got the full article text?
That we should promote the site with a "Free the Fap" event to destigmatize public masturbation. I think it was more like people didn't get that I was joking.
Dingus appreciated
Wipes FTW. Back in my broke days I knew I was living large when I could afford to splurge on mouthwash and baby wipes. It was like ghetto fabulousness achieved.
I mean yeah you can go to Google News and search for "craft of non-human origin" and there's a bunch of results detailing the same story. Two ex military intel guys with top secret clearance whistleblowing about recovered alien craft with one having given a classified congressional report on it. Crazy stuff.
Greentext option seems a lil hidden. Like it's not something you can just select in the comment editor, you gotta know it requires a leading greater-than symbol. Maybe you chan vets are used to it but it's new to a Reddit refugee like myself.
>I'm still getting the hang of things around here
A rubber band would do the same as that bottle opener for -100% the cost.
I wonder how doable that is technically. Seems easy enough to enforce a limit to one user account. But what about alt accounts? What about users who run alt accounts trough a VPN or other proxy which defeats an IP or location based approach? What about the edge cases? Two mods at the limit on a public or shared device? One logs out and then another uses that device and because whatever measure sees both accounts on the same device the accounts are flagged as one single user violating the mod limit even though neither has?
Enforcement of a mod limit at scale could be a recipe for an unmanageable game of whack-a-mole. Also I'm unsure if or how much Mainchan allowing anonymous mods might throw a wrench in the works.
Just spitballing here, Cicero might know of some method that makes it super easy *shrug*