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Actually it's about ethics in AI
Philosopher's Zone: Technology and the lure of ancient Athens
Episode webpage: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/technology-and-the-lure-of-ancient-athens/107140018
Media file: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/oc/Z/ec.mp3
#Philosophy #Ethics #Democracy #Cybernetics #Automation #AI -
Actually it's about ethics in AI
Philosopher's Zone: Technology and the lure of ancient Athens
Episode webpage: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/technology-and-the-lure-of-ancient-athens/107140018
Media file: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/oc/Z/ec.mp3
#Philosophy #Ethics #Democracy #Cybernetics #Automation #AI -
Actually it's about ethics in AI
Philosopher's Zone: Technology and the lure of ancient Athens
Episode webpage: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/technology-and-the-lure-of-ancient-athens/107140018
Media file: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/oc/Z/ec.mp3
#Philosophy #Ethics #Democracy #Cybernetics #Automation #AI -
Actually it's about ethics in AI
Philosopher's Zone: Technology and the lure of ancient Athens
Episode webpage: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/technology-and-the-lure-of-ancient-athens/107140018
Media file: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/oc/Z/ec.mp3
#Philosophy #Ethics #Democracy #Cybernetics #Automation #AI -
Actually it's about ethics in AI
Philosopher's Zone: Technology and the lure of ancient Athens
Episode webpage: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/technology-and-the-lure-of-ancient-athens/107140018
Media file: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/oc/Z/ec.mp3
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"It’s true that there’s some debate among philosophers and scientists over whether AI models think or feel, but even saying that’s probably lending the AI-is-sentient-camp a little too much credence. Fascinating a possibility as it is to consider, there’s no consensus that AI systems have these experiences.
It’s a testament to how defensive, if not cultish, that AI advocates have become that merely suggesting that large language models don’t think, let alone in the way humans do, is cause for indignation. Even supposing that it’s possible that AIs are already experiencing human-like emotions, why not err on the side of caution and stick to language that doesn’t bias us in favor of viewing these things as already alive, especially when there’s a trillion dollar industry at work trying to hype its tech as a powerful force that we should let change our lives?"
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-bros-meltdown-feelings
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AP #AssociatedPress #Anthropomorphization
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"It’s true that there’s some debate among philosophers and scientists over whether AI models think or feel, but even saying that’s probably lending the AI-is-sentient-camp a little too much credence. Fascinating a possibility as it is to consider, there’s no consensus that AI systems have these experiences.
It’s a testament to how defensive, if not cultish, that AI advocates have become that merely suggesting that large language models don’t think, let alone in the way humans do, is cause for indignation. Even supposing that it’s possible that AIs are already experiencing human-like emotions, why not err on the side of caution and stick to language that doesn’t bias us in favor of viewing these things as already alive, especially when there’s a trillion dollar industry at work trying to hype its tech as a powerful force that we should let change our lives?"
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-bros-meltdown-feelings
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AP #AssociatedPress #Anthropomorphization
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Words the Weather Gave Us by Grace Tierney (ARC review)
In one of his books (can’t remember which one) French polymath philosopher Michel Serres makes a big deal of the fact that in French, the same word – temps – means both weather and time. He makes the point, in his gnomish way, that since weather is a chaotic system, then time is too. Time is not a straight line, but fractal and folded. Or, as William Faulkner put it, The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
Serres might have been interested to know that, according to etymologist Grace Tierney, the word temperature in English comes not from the Latin temporalis (denoting time), but from that language’s temperatura, “which is linked to the idea of mixing in the correct proportions and restraining passions”. It wasn’t until the 1670s that it was first used in connection with measuring heat/cold and it was the 1820s when it was applied to discussions about the weather. So maybe temps in French comes from temporalis, while temps comes from temperatura. LOL.
Such are the pleasures of Tierney’s forthcoming Words the Weather Gave Us, the latest in a series of books about language and word origins, which include Words The Vikings Gave Us and Words the Sea Gave Us.
But who are we? We are the people of the stormy North Atlantic, from Newfoundland to Scandinavia. The author herself is based in Ireland, but she writes about that magpie language, English, which steals and absorbs words and phrases from all over the world. We are a people notorious for talking about the weather, so this subject has rich pickings.
Lovely words, for example, like petrichor; dreich; and (one that kept occurring to me over this breezy summer) zephyr. Or interesting phrases, like faffing about, or enough to make a sailor a pair of pants.
When it comes to idiom, English is endlessly inventive, and (as a seafaring nation), we all speak sailor quite a lot of the time. The Shipping Forecast is a national institution, after all, as well as a sleep aid.
If you love words, you’ll find this an enjoyable and entertaining read and a great stocking filler. (I expect there’ll be information on that phrase in Words Christmas Gave Us.) Read more on Grace Tierney’s blog.
#english #Etymology #GraceTierney #language #wordOrigins #Words -
Words the Weather Gave Us by Grace Tierney (ARC review)
In one of his books (can’t remember which one) French polymath philosopher Michel Serres makes a big deal of the fact that in French, the same word – temps – means both weather and time. He makes the point, in his gnomish way, that since weather is a chaotic system, then time is too. Time is not a straight line, but fractal and folded. Or, as William Faulkner put it, The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
Serres might have been interested to know that, according to etymologist Grace Tierney, the word temperature in English comes not from the Latin temporalis (denoting time), but from that language’s temperatura, “which is linked to the idea of mixing in the correct proportions and restraining passions”. It wasn’t until the 1670s that it was first used in connection with measuring heat/cold and it was the 1820s when it was applied to discussions about the weather. So maybe temps in French comes from temporalis, while temps comes from temperatura. LOL.
Such are the pleasures of Tierney’s forthcoming Words the Weather Gave Us, the latest in a series of books about language and word origins, which include Words The Vikings Gave Us and Words the Sea Gave Us.
But who are we? We are the people of the stormy North Atlantic, from Newfoundland to Scandinavia. The author herself is based in Ireland, but she writes about that magpie language, English, which steals and absorbs words and phrases from all over the world. We are a people notorious for talking about the weather, so this subject has rich pickings.
Lovely words, for example, like petrichor; dreich; and (one that kept occurring to me over this breezy summer) zephyr. Or interesting phrases, like faffing about, or enough to make a sailor a pair of pants.
When it comes to idiom, English is endlessly inventive, and (as a seafaring nation), we all speak sailor quite a lot of the time. The Shipping Forecast is a national institution, after all, as well as a sleep aid.
If you love words, you’ll find this an enjoyable and entertaining read and a great stocking filler. (I expect there’ll be information on that phrase in Words Christmas Gave Us.) Read more on Grace Tierney’s blog.
#english #Etymology #GraceTierney #language #wordOrigins #Words -
Marcus Aurelius Monday! Selected Quotes!
Drum Roll! Here is this week’s quote from Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius – known as the "Philosopher King".
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
#FamousQuotes #WordstoLiveBy #MarcusAurelius #PhilosopherKing #Romans #LifeLessons #FamousQuotes
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Confucius (551 BC) - #Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and #Philosopher.
#SpaceX launched the first private #Spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit (2008).
Birth Anniversary of legendary #Singer Lata Mangeshkar (1929).
Today is World #RabiesDay and Freedom from #Hunger Day, Access to #InformationDay.
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Confucius (551 BC) - #Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and #Philosopher.
#SpaceX launched the first private #Spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit (2008).
Birth Anniversary of legendary #Singer Lata Mangeshkar (1929).
Today is World #RabiesDay and Freedom from #Hunger Day, Access to #InformationDay.
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Confucius (551 BC) - #Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and #Philosopher.
#SpaceX launched the first private #Spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit (2008).
Birth Anniversary of legendary #Singer Lata Mangeshkar (1929).
Today is World #RabiesDay and Freedom from #Hunger Day, Access to #InformationDay.
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Confucius (551 BC) - #Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and #Philosopher.
#SpaceX launched the first private #Spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit (2008).
Birth Anniversary of legendary #Singer Lata Mangeshkar (1929).
Today is World #RabiesDay and Freedom from #Hunger Day, Access to #InformationDay.
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Now that it's clear that AI companies are bad in wräiting security system code, Anthropics has changed the direction:
Philosophers. According to news outlets, Anthropic is trying to build ethics and morale in Claude.
In their thinking, if Claude can be trained to be a morally good entity, then humanity will be safe.
So, in their internal memos use "wisdom","virtue" to describe Claude, words usually reserved to humans.
Ethics without consciousness? -
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
[La patience est amère, mais son fruit est doux.]Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) French philosopher and writer
Julie, or the New Heloise [Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse], Part 1, Letter 46 (from Julie) (1761) [tr. Stewart / Vaché]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/rousseau-jean-jacque…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #rousseau #jeanjaquesrousseau #endurance #equanimity #forbearance #patience #perseverance #puttingupwith #selfrestraint #waiting
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
[La patience est amère, mais son fruit est doux.]Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) French philosopher and writer
Julie, or the New Heloise [Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse], Part 1, Letter 46 (from Julie) (1761) [tr. Stewart / Vaché]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/rousseau-jean-jacque…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #rousseau #jeanjaquesrousseau #endurance #equanimity #forbearance #patience #perseverance #puttingupwith #selfrestraint #waiting
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
[La patience est amère, mais son fruit est doux.]Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) French philosopher and writer
Julie, or the New Heloise [Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse], Part 1, Letter 46 (from Julie) (1761) [tr. Stewart / Vaché]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/rousseau-jean-jacque…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #rousseau #jeanjaquesrousseau #endurance #equanimity #forbearance #patience #perseverance #puttingupwith #selfrestraint #waiting
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
[La patience est amère, mais son fruit est doux.]Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) French philosopher and writer
Julie, or the New Heloise [Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse], Part 1, Letter 46 (from Julie) (1761) [tr. Stewart / Vaché]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/rousseau-jean-jacque…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #rousseau #jeanjaquesrousseau #endurance #equanimity #forbearance #patience #perseverance #puttingupwith #selfrestraint #waiting
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Because I was recently asked which kind of Frankfurt School Dinosaur I was, to which I answered: "A Marcusesaurus", here is a small Herbert Marcuse moment for the age of AIshittification:
First things first, Herbert Marcuse was a German-American philosopher and social theorist, one of the thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School. He wrote extensively about capitalism, technology, consumer society, and the rather inconvenient possibility that modern societies can make domination feel like freedom.
That last bit feels remarkably contemporary.
Marcuse’s point was not that technology is inherently evil. It was that technology does not exist in a vacuum. The question is who designs it, for what purpose, and within which economic and social structures.
And so, when we are told that AI will make everything faster, cheaper and more efficient, Marcuse gives us a useful little philosophical eyebrow raise.
Faster for whom?
Cheaper for whom?
Efficient towards what end?
Because there is a peculiar kind of technological progress in which everything becomes more efficient except the lives of the people actually doing the work.
Translation without translators. Writing without writers. Art without artists. Customer service without humans. And somehow the promised liberation repeatedly turns into more surveillance, more extraction, more precarious work and more things being optimised that nobody particularly wanted optimised in the first place.
That is where Marcuse meets enshittification.
A service begins by serving human needs. Then it becomes infrastructure. Then it becomes indispensable. And eventually the machine is reorganised around extraction, monetisation and control, while we are politely informed that this is all being done for our convenience.
Marcuse would probably have had some questions.
Not simply:
“What can this technology do?”
But:
“What kind of society does this technology help create?”
And perhaps most importantly:
“What does it make us become?”
That is a much nastier question.
Which is precisely why I like it.
#HerbertMarcuse #FrankfurtSchool #CriticalTheory #AI #AIshittification #Technology #Capitalism #DigitalCapitalism #HumanLabour #Philosophy
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Because I was recently asked which kind of Frankfurt School Dinosaur I was, to which I answered: "A Marcusesaurus", here is a small Herbert Marcuse moment for the age of AIshittification:
First things first, Herbert Marcuse was a German-American philosopher and social theorist, one of the thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School. He wrote extensively about capitalism, technology, consumer society, and the rather inconvenient possibility that modern societies can make domination feel like freedom.
That last bit feels remarkably contemporary.
Marcuse’s point was not that technology is inherently evil. It was that technology does not exist in a vacuum. The question is who designs it, for what purpose, and within which economic and social structures.
And so, when we are told that AI will make everything faster, cheaper and more efficient, Marcuse gives us a useful little philosophical eyebrow raise.
Faster for whom?
Cheaper for whom?
Efficient towards what end?
Because there is a peculiar kind of technological progress in which everything becomes more efficient except the lives of the people actually doing the work.
Translation without translators. Writing without writers. Art without artists. Customer service without humans. And somehow the promised liberation repeatedly turns into more surveillance, more extraction, more precarious work and more things being optimised that nobody particularly wanted optimised in the first place.
That is where Marcuse meets enshittification.
A service begins by serving human needs. Then it becomes infrastructure. Then it becomes indispensable. And eventually the machine is reorganised around extraction, monetisation and control, while we are politely informed that this is all being done for our convenience.
Marcuse would probably have had some questions.
Not simply:
“What can this technology do?”
But:
“What kind of society does this technology help create?”
And perhaps most importantly:
“What does it make us become?”
That is a much nastier question.
Which is precisely why I like it.
#HerbertMarcuse #FrankfurtSchool #CriticalTheory #AI #AIshittification #Technology #Capitalism #DigitalCapitalism #HumanLabour #Philosophy
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Because I was recently asked which kind of Frankfurt School Dinosaur I was, to which I answered: "A Marcusesaurus", here is a small Herbert Marcuse moment for the age of AIshittification:
First things first, Herbert Marcuse was a German-American philosopher and social theorist, one of the thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School. He wrote extensively about capitalism, technology, consumer society, and the rather inconvenient possibility that modern societies can make domination feel like freedom.
That last bit feels remarkably contemporary.
Marcuse’s point was not that technology is inherently evil. It was that technology does not exist in a vacuum. The question is who designs it, for what purpose, and within which economic and social structures.
And so, when we are told that AI will make everything faster, cheaper and more efficient, Marcuse gives us a useful little philosophical eyebrow raise.
Faster for whom?
Cheaper for whom?
Efficient towards what end?
Because there is a peculiar kind of technological progress in which everything becomes more efficient except the lives of the people actually doing the work.
Translation without translators. Writing without writers. Art without artists. Customer service without humans. And somehow the promised liberation repeatedly turns into more surveillance, more extraction, more precarious work and more things being optimised that nobody particularly wanted optimised in the first place.
That is where Marcuse meets enshittification.
A service begins by serving human needs. Then it becomes infrastructure. Then it becomes indispensable. And eventually the machine is reorganised around extraction, monetisation and control, while we are politely informed that this is all being done for our convenience.
Marcuse would probably have had some questions.
Not simply:
“What can this technology do?”
But:
“What kind of society does this technology help create?”
And perhaps most importantly:
“What does it make us become?”
That is a much nastier question.
Which is precisely why I like it.
#HerbertMarcuse #FrankfurtSchool #CriticalTheory #AI #AIshittification #Technology #Capitalism #DigitalCapitalism #HumanLabour #Philosophy
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Because I was recently asked which kind of Frankfurt School Dinosaur I was, to which I answered: "A Marcusesaurus", here is a small Herbert Marcuse moment for the age of AIshittification:
First things first, Herbert Marcuse was a German-American philosopher and social theorist, one of the thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School. He wrote extensively about capitalism, technology, consumer society, and the rather inconvenient possibility that modern societies can make domination feel like freedom.
That last bit feels remarkably contemporary.
Marcuse’s point was not that technology is inherently evil. It was that technology does not exist in a vacuum. The question is who designs it, for what purpose, and within which economic and social structures.
And so, when we are told that AI will make everything faster, cheaper and more efficient, Marcuse gives us a useful little philosophical eyebrow raise.
Faster for whom?
Cheaper for whom?
Efficient towards what end?
Because there is a peculiar kind of technological progress in which everything becomes more efficient except the lives of the people actually doing the work.
Translation without translators. Writing without writers. Art without artists. Customer service without humans. And somehow the promised liberation repeatedly turns into more surveillance, more extraction, more precarious work and more things being optimised that nobody particularly wanted optimised in the first place.
That is where Marcuse meets enshittification.
A service begins by serving human needs. Then it becomes infrastructure. Then it becomes indispensable. And eventually the machine is reorganised around extraction, monetisation and control, while we are politely informed that this is all being done for our convenience.
Marcuse would probably have had some questions.
Not simply:
“What can this technology do?”
But:
“What kind of society does this technology help create?”
And perhaps most importantly:
“What does it make us become?”
That is a much nastier question.
Which is precisely why I like it.
#HerbertMarcuse #FrankfurtSchool #CriticalTheory #AI #AIshittification #Technology #Capitalism #DigitalCapitalism #HumanLabour #Philosophy
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A quotation (not) from Tolstoy
The wicked become even worse when tolerated.
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
(Spurious)More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/86005/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #acquiescence #corruption #evil #tolerance #toleration #license #wicked #worsening
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A quotation (not) from Tolstoy
The wicked become even worse when tolerated.
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
(Spurious)More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/86005/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #acquiescence #corruption #evil #tolerance #toleration #license #wicked #worsening
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A quotation (not) from Tolstoy
The wicked become even worse when tolerated.
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
(Spurious)More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/86005/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #acquiescence #corruption #evil #tolerance #toleration #license #wicked #worsening
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A quotation (not) from Tolstoy
The wicked become even worse when tolerated.
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
(Spurious)More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/86005/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #acquiescence #corruption #evil #tolerance #toleration #license #wicked #worsening
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A quotation (not) from Tolstoy
The wicked become even worse when tolerated.
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
(Spurious)More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/86005/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #acquiescence #corruption #evil #tolerance #toleration #license #wicked #worsening
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The Good Samaritans – Onughara
https://amf.didiermary.fr/the-good-samaritans-onughara/
Benin City in Nigeria. Edo-Funk. The Good Samaritans, led by Philosopher Okundaye, who composed many of the famous 80s tracks, between Funk and Highlife.
“No Food Without Taste If By Hunger” by “The Good Samaritans” is one of the most obscure Nigerian album ever recorded. Originally released in 1982, the band’s first album is full […]