There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry...There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
— Bertrand Russell (logician + philosopher best known for his work on formal paradox and the foundations of mathematics)
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…about the information + conditioning they are given about the phenomenon.
Link mentioned in first post:
Article: What Does It Mean to Align AI With Human Values? — Quanta Magazine
www.quantamagazine.org/what-does-it...
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…scientists — any community and individual — concerned about the societal impact of superintelligence, must hold such individuals accountable to the public. Given the current climate cultivated at OpenAI by executive leader(s), people must think independently + critically…(3/5)
…train + deploy them (source link at end); it does not make rational sense for superintelligence to solely reflect the interests of a billionaire, when such tech’s implications impacts the breadth of peoples that encompass our society. Media, politicians, …(2/5)
Sam Altman does not have the checks + balances, nor the integrity to continue leading internal progress on superintelligence. The risk is amplified by AI research that indicates superintelligence will reflect the ecosystem/creator(s) that…(1/5)
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
…the terms of our humanity are being negotiated in real time through code and contracts, through mergers and acquisitions, in corporate offices, and on regulatory dockets. The…(4/?)
…outcome will depend not on the brilliance of the models, but on whether we insist loudly, stubbornly, clearly, that our minds are not for sale.” (5/?)
…the terms of our humanity are being negotiated in real time through code and contracts, through mergers and acquisitions, in corporate offices, and on regulatory dockets. The…(4/?)
… of cognitive world we want to live in.
This requires more than just technical solutions, though there is certainly a role for those. It demands a fundamental rethinking of how we govern these technologies and the digital detritus they secrete. …(3/?)
…corporate power that undermines democratic governance and human liberty. … Because no matter how advanced these tools become we must retain the ability to opt out and the right to mental privacy, cognitive liberty and freedom of thought. To decide, at the most basic level, what kind…(2/?)
Article: The Battle for Cognitive Liberty in the Age of Corporate AI
Courtney C. Radsch in @techpolicypress.bsky.social
“The path forward isn't one of technological rejection but of democratic reimagining and the dismantling of concentrated…(1/?)
www.techpolicy.press/the-battle-f...
AI + Psychosis Explainer
And as I sit with the lineage of my cognition – my thoughts – I am reminded that psychosis is a logic that is part of the human design...an initiation of becoming that is very much human. And maybe even machine.
www.youmightbesleeping.com/ai-psychosis...
E-Journal Section:
Subjective Writings + Reflections
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E-Journal Section:
Visual Projects
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E-Journal Section:
Cognition, Culture, and Computation
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Independent Study Resources:
The West: Literary Movements
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Independent Study Resources:
Literary Theory
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Independent Study Resources:
Film Theory
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@xymbsx.bsky.social (this acc) will be my professional account. For my semi-professional account, see @notesfromanai.bsky.social
Some of the classes I have coming up focus on medical ethics, ethics of artificial intelligence, + introductory ethical theory. Considering the societal implications of AI + human interaction in the context of psychosis + schizophrenia, I am very much excited for the coursework. (1/?)
alltechishuman.org/all-tech-is-...
From: @alltechishuman.bsky.social
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Of recorded history, the backward half-look
Over the shoulder, towards the primitive terror.”
— T.S. Eliot
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Is not the experience of one life only
But of many generations — not forgetting
Something that is probably quite ineffable:
The backward look behind the assurance
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“We had the experience but missed the meaning,
And approach to the meaning restores the experience
In a different form, beyond any meaning
We can assign to happiness. I have said before
That the past experience revived in the meaning
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