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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
Medieval grifts are back. We urgently need a modern Jack and the Beanstalk movie.
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
The author is making a big mistake by making a normative claim about 'true' intelligence and consciousness. Is there a correct way to cognize? And although he feels cognizing works in a very specific direction, his brain is basica
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
This is true. While Humboldt designed the overarching structure of the school, Johann Gottlieb Fichte argued that Prussia lost to Napoleon because they were too individualistic and was able to influence ideas of early education in those sch
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
I think the technology industry has a long track record of selling false promises, dead ends, and over-hyped solutions. AI is an interesting experiment with some real-world applications, but it’s no tractor or mechanical loom... not yet, at
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
It's weird that a company can hype investors with bombastic AI announcements on one end to get some boost in value and then on the other end divvy out those results like they're in the Great Depression. Gemini and AI Overviews fee
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
Governments are casting a wide a net but it all seems aimed at a foreign influence and espionage Cold War going on. The thought of using this for crime in most countries is tertiary and the real reasons for implementing these systems are so
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
Google seems to be filled with really talented people, technology, and every resource anyone would ever need, but their execution and management seems to be severely lacking. This account is a pretty damning indictment of Google. Look at th
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
In Canada the approach is going to be that social media and AI companies will need to figure out a system where those under 16 can’t access content. The government will be able to grant exemptions if the company can satisfy regulators that
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
I think people fall into two distinct camps here: the wildly exploratory, who chase everything from lost civilizations to aliens, and the hyper-rationalists, who refuse to budge from safe, conventional explanations. When it comes to Giza, I
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
Thanks for adding RSS! Bringing Bubbles (and HN) into NetNewsWire is a game-changer for content discovery and keeping a clean reading list.
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
You mean the Coke flavour co-created by AI wasn't a resounding success with consumers? Who could have possibly known? https://www.pcmag.com/news/coca-cola-uses-ai-to-create-a-fut...
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
The quality of Gemini varies so much throughout the day, the week and the month that it’s hard to rely on it for anything. It feels like Google is trying to throttle costs but has completely missed the mark.
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
The demo Mike Rockwell gave at WWDC was interesting. He kinda showed off Siri as like the Star Trek computer for your phone. I hope this is the direction Apple is going to continue in. Having AI as a user interface is way more interesting t
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
It probably feels this way if you're terminally online, but the US government recently revealed the existence of UFOs and no one even blinked or cared. A minority cares, but most people have zero interest. I think the French theorist J
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
I host my website on Cloudflare and looking at my stats, I can confirm that bot traffic is not only up, it's totally insane. There is nothing on the site, just my name and an email account and it should have no traffic at all. Instead
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
My dumb phone solution: an Apple Watch with a cellular connection. You can’t browse the web or install addictive apps. But you can get your mail, texts, and phone calls and you can listen to music, check the weather, and navigate with a map
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
There’s over 400 years of philosophical debate about consciousness starting with Locke, shifting with Kant, and continuing onward with real world implications throughout. By some more modern definitions an iPhone has consciousness while oth
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
I can live with that.
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
“Counsciousness” is the ultimate moving goalpost, and historically, it’s been one of humanity’s most effective intellectual weapons. An indefinable black box we intentionally gatekeep to draw an arbitrary line between ‘us’ and ‘them’. I don
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
There will be a learning curve for some, like the person behind this article. Searching in AI mode will mean your query is going to need to be a bit more pointed. The example given is you want evidence from an original source in Stack Overf
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
To be charitable to Ellison, it worked well in China.
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
I think you may be misreading why the lack of philosophy education matters here. The point is that billionaires and CEOs now present themselves as intellectuals or thought leaders, without having done the homework, and end up using and abus
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
I think 'expertise' is a bit of a red herring when what is being discussed is experience. I've always believed that coding and development is an art and something analogous is the experience of a visual arts student. There&#x
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by speak_plainly 4mo ago
I came here for the performative anti-AI intellectualism and was not disappointed.
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by speak_plainly 5mo ago
I know lots of people are excited because an ancient institution has something to say about AI.... But what's said is not really novel or even interesting. The letter aims to maintain the status quo of the project of the Church. The wo
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by speak_plainly 5mo ago
It comes down to the kind of society we want to create, not some existential threat. Social media has an outsized effect on everything from the food people eat to the medical care they receive. The incentives of social media create a great
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by speak_plainly 5mo ago
The argument being made seems plausible but it’s complete fear mongering. The surveillance mechanisms already exist and are in play and people can be identified in endless ways. States have broad power to do what is being feared in the thr
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by speak_plainly 8mo ago
Consciousness is still a pretty hollow concept. And it sounds like, at least in Finch's analysis, that it's being treating as a normative good. It also sounds like both Pollan and Finch are circling the functionalist versus essent
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by speak_plainly 8mo ago
If you can't sit still and quietly in a room alone for 30 minutes without becoming schizophrenic, maybe meditation is the least of your problems. Meditation is not a tool or a medicine for mental health issues.
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by speak_plainly 8mo ago
Dictionaries are a mixed bag at best. If you apply David Kaplan’s character/content distinction from Demonstratives, you have to ask: should pure indexicals, which are essentially 'contentless' pointers be treated the same wa

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