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> So what’s being stripped away here? And how? > The what is easy. It’s personhood. > By personhood I mean what it takes in an entity to get another person tr

> So what’s being stripped away here? And how? > The what is easy. It’s personhood. > By personhood I mean what it takes in an entity to get another person treat it unironically as a human, and feel treated as a human in turn. In shorthand, personhood is the capacity to see and be seen. I confess lack of understanding. ChatGPT is data sloshing around in a system, with perhaps intriguing results. > But text is all we need, and all there is. Beyond the cartoon profile picture, text can do everything needed to stably anchor an I-you perception. Absolutely nothing about the internet negates actual people in physical space. Possibly getting off the grid for a space of days to reconnect with reality is worthy of consideration.

rubidium 4y ago
This. If you’re concerned about text based persons, you’ve already lost touch with reality and too embedded in the web. The article confuses personality (that which is experienced by others) with personhood (that which is) and falls apart from there.
pixl97 4y ago
>Absolutely nothing about the internet negates actual people in physical space. The internet doesn't affect politics, the way people vote, what they buy, if the commit suicide? Technology has defined personhood since they days we picked up sticks and tools that triggered a path of extreme evolution into what we are now. You may be able to escape the technological world you're bound to as an individual for a short period of time, but the need for food, clean water, and medicine will bring you back to the interconnected technological maelstrom that is the world that's we've created, and that we would die in if the technology part stopped. As we hook ourselves to more systems and become more dependant on technology the idea of a disconnected reality will be akin to how we look at fossils now.

rubidium 4y ago

This. If you’re concerned about text based persons, you’ve already lost touch with reality and too embedded in the web. The article confuses personality (that which is experienced by others) with personhood (that which is) and falls apart from there.

pixl97 4y ago

>Absolutely nothing about the internet negates actual people in physical space. The internet doesn't affect politics, the way people vote, what they buy, if the commit suicide? Technology has defined personhood since they days we picked up sticks and tools that triggered a path of extreme evolution into what we are now. You may be able to escape the technological world you're bound to as an individual for a short period of time, but the need for food, clean water, and medicine will bring you back to the interconnected technological maelstrom that is the world that's we've created, and that we would die in if the technology part stopped. As we hook ourselves to more systems and become more dependant on technology the idea of a disconnected reality will be akin to how we look at fossils now.