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> sufficiently advanced mimicry is not only indistinguishable from the real thing, but at the limit in fact is the real thing I am continually surprised at how
by brookst 2y ago
> sufficiently advanced mimicry is not only indistinguishable from the real thing, but at the limit in fact is the real thing
I am continually surprised at how relevant and pervasive one of Kurt Vonnegut’s major insights is: “we are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful about what we pretend to be”
- Der_Einzige 2y agoThis ideas is older than him by a lot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imitating_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imitating_art Everyone in the "life imitates art, not the other way around" camp (and also neo-platonists/gnostics i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge ) is getting massively validated by the modern advances in AI right now.