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Matthew David Segall's avatar

Great article summarizing the transhumanist ideology driving the nonsense about conscious machines: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-acronym-behind-our-wildest-ai-dreams-and-nightmares/ That it is nonsense is clear, but it is dangerous nonsense since these "rationalists" are the ones running companies and advising governments about what the future should look like. I do think AI and robotics, etc., could have a role in a flourishing society, but not like this!

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👉🏻jonathan_foster's avatar

"Language, even in its oral form, externalizes thought into a physical medium, a process further extended by writing, especially alphabetic writing. Thus, digital forms of artificial intelligence represent the latest evolution of intelligence, which has always been, to some degree, artificial."

Haha, true!

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