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Humans are very soon going to learn that they are not nearly as special as they tell themselves they are.
by Workaccount2 4y ago
Humans are very soon going to learn that they are not nearly as special as they tell themselves they are.
- Tao3300 4y agoThe secret ingredient is that we tell ourselves we're special anyway.
- haswell 4y agoI don’t understand this take. What are the characteristics that you believe we’ll learn are not unique to us? Let’s say that the paper turns out to be true and ToM emerges from language (I’m deeply skeptical, but I’ll set that aside for a moment). How would that change humanity’s place? And wouldn’t such a discovery would be meaningless without humans to understand it?
- avgcorrection 4y agoWhat is modernity but a two-hundred year old experiment where the masters try to tell the other humans how they are just well-dressed machines? Soon to be replaced by the mechanical machine, then by the digital computer, then by the language model. Of course you too, nerd-handmaiden, is a willing accomplice in this charade. Self-satisfied because it makes you feel special, above the herd, even though you are also not-special, in the grand scheme of things…? Well, no matter.
- imbnwa 4y agoWhat's life if its not personal?