AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism // New Socialist
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.| New Socialist
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.| New Socialist
Desiderata #33: links and thoughts| www.theintrinsicperspective.com
Vegas as a laboratory for surveillance and social control, the explosion of gambling as a sign of a degenerate culture seized by despair, AI delusions at CES, and the future.| thetechbubble.substack.com
Consortium likely to include Elon Musk’s SpaceX in move to grab a bigger slice of $850bn US defence budget| www.ft.com
Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an AI system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza.| +972 Magazine
Roko’s basilisk is a thought experiment proposed in 2010 by the user Roko on the Less Wrong community blog. Roko used ideas in decision theory to argue that a sufficiently powerful AI agent would have an incentive to torture anyone who imagined the agent but didn't work to bring the agent into existence. The argument was called a "basilisk" --named after the legendary reptile who can cause death with a single glance--because merely hearing the argument would supposedly put you at risk of to...| www.lesswrong.com
