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"I grew up implicitly thinking that intelligence was this, like really special human thing and kind of somewhat magical. And I now think that it's sort of a fundamental property of matter..." @sama
I count myself among a growing number of scientists who believe that the construction of self identity is not much better than the Lo-fi representations of other people we hold in our heads.
Gregory Berns • The Self Delusion
First, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its environme
... See moreErik Larson • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
The debate over “is it real or fake” is somewhat ironic, because so much of what we experience as reality even within our own bodies is actually simulation.
Nick Susi • magic, online!
For the foreseeable future, the ongoing technological explosion will be driven by humans using previously invented tools to invent new ones; there won’t be a “last invention that man need ever make.” In one respect, this is reassuring, because, contrary to Good’s claim, human intelligence will never be “left far behind.” But, in the same way that w... See more
newyorker.com • Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter
Instead of a measurable, quantifiable thing that exists independently out in the world, we suggest that intelligence is a label, pinned by humanity onto a bag stuffed with a jumble of independent traits that helped our ancestors thrive.
Abigail Desmond • Chaos and cause
In any case, I’d go so far as to argue that the dopamine framing actually subsidizes the social imaginary that reduces the human being to the status of a machine, readily programmable by the manipulation of stimuli, which may itself be the deeper and more malignant problem.
L. M. Sacasas • Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
- "Our algorithmic self may or may not be faithful to how we see ourselves, but it has just as many dimensions and secrets."
Emma Stamm • Who Can It Be Now — Real Life
Dennett sugere que os governos venham a banir os seres humanos falsos de modo tão decidido quanto baniram o dinheiro falso.