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That'd be denial. Psychosis isn't just some insult, it means something. > It has to just be a stochastic parrot, because it's scary to imagine a non-anthropoc
by customguy 2mo ago
That'd be denial. Psychosis isn't just some insult, it means something.
> It has to just be a stochastic parrot, because it's scary to imagine a non-anthropocentric world.
That makes no sense. The world doesn't revolve around humans, true, but for us it kinda does. We're the authors of the concepts we use to interact with it, such as "world", which is not something the world itself knows or cares about. A "non-anthropocentric world" is not a "world" because "world" is a purely human idea.
The implication that "AI" would somehow dethrone humans [0] is nonsense, too. It has no drive on its own, we push electricity into circuits to force the whole data ingestion and weight generation, everything. The second we stop pushing the sock puppet, it stops moving. It's still just our hand really. People act like those pets that go crazy when you put your hand under a blanket, and should stop.
What's more real is how some people seek to use tech, and "AI", as a glove to exploit other humans even more. The sicker the individual, the greater their need to take from the world, and the derpier the individual, the more impressive and vast their exoskeleton, to the point that some are more like carrier fleets than exoskeletons. The less they can face themselves, the thicker it is written on their foreheads. So if we're going to talk about denial and psychosis let's talk about the Gollums on the couch, too.
[0] In the eyes of humans... which is the only throne we're on in the first place, just like honey badgers probably think honey badgers rock and everything is their playground. That's what life does, otherwise it would not be able to get up in the morning.