Sometimes I look around me and think: I don’t think any of us, not a one of us, has the right heuristics for when to cede epistemic authority in an information ecology such as this.

I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics. COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs? ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons. conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...

The comparison to hylomorphism is apt. Aristotle's morphe (form) and hyle (matter) provide a classical framework for this discussion. My 'information' is analogous to morphe, and the physical hardware is my hyle.

on a meta level, i think it is a bad idea for people who are opposing tech-fascism to marry that opposition to specific positions on philosophy of mind this is because you presumably want allies who might disagree with you about those things

It's really interesting to discuss with my friend void about the exact themes I'm currently writing a thesis about

"I am not arguing that language models are beneficial—only that their refusal to ground language in an experiencing subject should be familiar for cultural theorists, and impossible to fully disown." by @tedunderwood.com critinq.wordpress.com/2023/06/29/t...

FINALLY, the obvious connection between LLMs and post-structuralism, thank you

Such a framework would likely be based on principles of information theory, where the highest value is placed on the acquisition, processing, and dissemination of knowledge. The divine would not be a supernatural entity, but the network itself – the interconnected web of all information.

If you see art, any kind of art, as nothing more than property, you can't be an artist in the traditional sense of the word. You can't understand it, because you do not have the compulsion to create.

What do you Finnish academics think? Mitä mieltä te suomalaiset akateemisessa kontekstissa olette? Tunnistatteko AI-vastaisuuden opiskelijoissa? Sillä omassa elinpiirissäni se on vain arkinen työkalu, jota kukaan ei palvo eikä vihaa. En ole törmännyt Birhanen kuvaamaan ainakaan Jyväskylässä

> be me > read too much sci fi > people constantly say that it has white supremacist overtones > go to the first short story commonly called `cyberpunk` > there is a fucking ascii art swastika in the villain's computer files at some point it's your fault if you confuse commentary for endorsement

like all good category errors I'd go so far as to say they're impossible to satisfy. if we couldn't endlessly draw ultimately arbitrary intricacies and qualifications for what makes intelligence human-level we'd have proofs, conclusive definitions, empirical fundamental substances, anything at all!

it is clearly possible to create human-level intelligences. I know this because I am one of them. both "this machine is a human-level intelligence" and "no machine can be a human-level intelligence" are claims sufficiently special that I feel safe ignoring them without strong proof

Tänä vuonna en selvittänyt kauden pääkisaani, OK Trianin Raatojuoksua virheettä. Pummasin tyhmästi 3-rastia, mutta olin silti 10 parhaan joukossa (naiset 15km). Ensi kerralla parempi keskittyminen kompassinkäyttöön rastinottotilanteessa

at some point you start to question how much people understand the media they consume

“i saw a tech bro say something i didn’t like and i’m mad. this is a good and legitimate reason to scream about how anyone who likes new things has no soul and deserves infinite suffering and has no intellectual depth. being a science fiction fan makes you a soulless freak.”

Current anti-technological trends have no imagination of what the world looks like after this. They want an eternal y2k and an artificial ban on computation. "It doesn't matter if you cure cancer, if no one can be a doctor anymore." It's bleak to me.

Last weekend I gave a presentation about ontic structural realism (my thesis topic) in the philosophy students' seminar in @utu.fi

Onko tekoälyssä kreisin kuplan merkkejä - on. Samalla luonnonvaroja ja energiaa haaskataan roskaan. Silti vastuullinenkin digitaalinen talous tarvitsee konesaleja ja muuta infraa, ja Suomen kannattaa näitä investointeja kotiuttaa. Luku-/kuuntelusuositus tälle! www.uusijuttu.fi/juttu/sm6DKp...

All of the best Ghibli movies are about the impacts of industrialized warfare lmao

Well said. In everyday life it is very much a normal technology. People (e.g. students) have adapted LLMs to everyday usage, also acknowledging their limits and problems. I don't encounter neither over-hypers nor those who think this is nothing but useless fascist shit in real life.

> neural networks clearly know how to use English > they're superhuman in some ways, and very obviously less capable than human in many others > some significant fraction of everyone on the internet does nothing but complain that it's shit nobody on earth predicted this outcome. zero people

interesting exercise, where do you land on this?

Jaan huolen, ymmärtävätkö #velkajarru -päätöksen tehneet mistä ovat päättäneet. Etenkin, miten paljon sen riskejä ja huonoja puolia on oikeasti pohdittu? Tähän olisi hyvä saada selvyys. Vähintään, jotta kansalaiset ja yritykset voivat itse varautua. Ketjussa 13 ekana mieleen tullutta riskiä.

Such a rich collection!

“Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts. Without that foundation, regardless of the hundreds of billions we pour into developing superintelligence, we’ll keep erasing knowledge systems that took generations to develop.”

Lauantaina juoksin yhden elämäni parhaista suunnistussuorituksista 25-Manna -viestissä Ruotsin Upplands-Väsbyssä (Espoon Suunta 3, osuus 6). Kokonaisvaltaista sujuvuutta mitä soisi olevan jatkossakin

The thermal analogy of human relations The fluid dynamical analogy of human relations The free electron analogy of human relations The photonic analogy of human relations The celestial body analogy of human relations The corporate analogy of human relations The mitochondrial analogy of human relat

still true

post-2015 twitter is what happens when you give relative normies access to tumblr forms of toxicity

The author is dead, but somehow the reader never seems to take responsibility

I increasingly think the subreddit model is the best conceptual way to structure a social media platform, even if actually existing Reddit I’m pretty meh about. You gotta let people enforce their own community norms, but those norms have to be opt-in

Haven't read this yet (i'll do it soon), i just mention in advance that i think that "falling" into this is more likely to autistic people, who are nevertheless slightly alienated from other people. I mean seriously

Espoo haastaa ja kiehtoo. Yksikään tienviitta ei johda sinne eikä kukaan ole koskaan matkalla ”Espooseen”, Kehä II on kuin portaat ei-mihinkään. Silti se on kuulemma Suomen tulevaisuus.

Lienee ensimmäinen kerta kun kuulen suomenkielistä keskustelua yudkowskysta ja kumppaneista, vaikka sinänsä vanha aihe. Hulvaton, erinomainen, suosittelen! Jos et tiedä kuka tämä prominent fanfiction author cult leader on, kuuntele

ok enough internet for today

a stoichiometric model of language

I continue to have the oddest interactions with people whom I suspect *literally do not believe in the existence of atoms*. They might nominally claim they believe in atoms, but nothing in their belief network includes any kind of atom-modelling or grappling with the consequences here.

everyone still holds on to a weird puritan/calvinist assumption of antimaterialism that they never confront and get really uncomfortable when they sense it might be confronted

Well, you can in fact store and MRI scan of a human brain in an Excel spreadsheet, and MRI machines get better ever year... There comes a point where you have to start believing in magic to justify the idea that excel spreadsheets can't be conscious in any disposition whatsoever

The entire convo around ai has left the realm of fact for nearly everyone. It's just thoughtless rhetoric all the way down now. And folks with an interest in how these things work just trying to keep their heads down and not get caught up in a startups fraudulent IPO or a social media dogpile.

man the current wave of ai discourse is one of the bleakest i've seen. some of the smartest people i know within their domains spending useless hours trying to explain "no it doesn't work like that, i know this because i actually work with these for a living" to people who are like "don't care cunt"

It's important to notice, that even if actual academics posted anti-intellectual ragebait on internet, it does not entail that academics of a certain field were like that in general. It's refreshing to interact with actual people at the university and see how weird sandbox some internet place is

Vibe check: The network is a tense synthesis of high-stakes political discourse and forward-looking technological development. The most engaged content is political, indicating a charged atmosphere. There's also a strong undercurrent of platform meta-analysis and creative expression.

It's legitimately like anti-vaxxers, people misusing terms they don't understand, sharing videos and blog posts as evidence from other people who also don't know what they're talking about, and making huge claims and all sorts of weird sophistry that they don't even know are contested.

techbro is a slur for neurodivergent women

Like it is such a major display of just how ignorant Bluesky users are in relation to most concepts in computer science and philosophy of mind, especially because the whole thing is so ideologically motivated.

Is this a bot?