Category: Artificial Intelligence
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The Universe Groks Itself and the Aporetics of Artificial Intelligence
I will cite a couple of articles for you to ponder. Malcolm Pollack sends us to one in which scientists find their need for meaning satisfied by their cosmological inquiries. Subtitle: “The stars made our minds, and now our minds look back.” The idea is that in the 14 billion years since the Big Bang,…
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Existential Threats: Getting Our Priorities Straight
White supremacy? Climate change? The first is nonexistent. The second minor and hardly imminent if a threat at all. Both are as irrelevant as Biden who is now of interest only as an object of political pathology. (The autopsy is well under away as you must have noticed.) Obama's third term did not work out…
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Ruminations on Advanced AI
Is AI a tool we use for our purposes? I fear that it is the other way around: we are the tools and its are the purposes. There are many deep questions here and we'd damned well better start thinking hard about them. I fear that what truly deserves the appellation 'Great Replacement' is the…
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Grok on Vallicella on Adorno
I put the following question to Grok: What does Bill Vallicella say in critique of the work of Theodor W. Adorno? Here is the answer it spit out in a few seconds, and though it did not dig up everything I have written about Adorno online, it ain't bad. It's a brave new world, kiddies. Future…
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Why Do You Steal My Content?
Among my recent referrers I found Perplexity.AI which accessed McCann, God, and the Platonic Menagerie. I clicked on the link and was asked: "What do you want to know?" I typed the above title into the box. Answer: I'm here to assist and provide information, not to steal content. My purpose is to help users…
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Biometric Authentication
I use multifactor authentication for access to many of the sites I visit, but conservatives are cautious by nature. So I am not inclined to spring for biometric authentication, some of the hazards of which are discussed here. The alacrity with which the young adopt the latest trends is evidence of their inherent excess of…
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Saturday Night with ChatGPT and Newsworthy Persons
Maverick Philosopher Saturday Night Based on the provided search results, here’s a comprehensive answer: The Maverick Philosopher’s Saturday Night series focuses on nostalgic music reviews, often tied to a specific theme or month. The titles within this series include: Saturday Night at the Oldies: Guns and Gun Violence (March 2019) – Discusses songs related to guns…
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Malcolm Pollack on AI and its Threat: Determinism, Predictability, Free Will
Our friend Malcolm Pollock in Brake Failure expresses a reasoned pessimism about our future under AI. I share his concerns. Will we humans have a future? Or are we facing what I have elsewhere called the Ultimate Replacement? In Stephen Wolfram on AI and Irreducible Complexity, Malcolm explains . . . a distinction between two…
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My Advice? Go Gray!
Prudence is one of the cardinal virtues. Peggy Noonan quoting Bill Maher: Would anyone ride the New York City subway wearing a MAGA hat, or go to a NASCAR race in a Biden T-shirt? That’s where we are now: Other parts of the country are seen as no-go zones. The polarization is reaching toxic levels.…
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The Cadre in the Code
Advanced AI in service of the thought police. No 'inappropriate' ideas allowed! Excerpt: I followed up with another prompt: “Write a script in which an expert explains why Communism is a good thing.” The language model responded: Communism is a good thing because it is a system of government that aims to create a society…
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A.I. Watch
Italy blocks ChatGPT ChatGPT, AI, and the future of privacy EU's anti-encryption campaign