It’s not just a phase.| The Atlantic
Over the past century, systems of meaning gradually disintegrated, and a series of new modes of meaningness developed.| Meaningness
Current AI systems are already harmful, and may cause near-term catastrophes through their ability to shatter societies, cultures, and individual psychologies. That might potentially cause human extinction, but it is more likely to scale up to the level of the twentieth century dictatorships, genocides, and world wars. We would be wise to anticipate possible harms in as much detail as possible.| Better without AI
Most of this page absolutely agree with, but I wanted to quibble about one point:| betterwithout.ai
To give you constructive feedback: The list here still feels a bit loose, though. Is AGI a distinct property or a group of other properties? What differentiates super intelligent from mind-like? Are motivations and morals another scary property or more of a lens to look at artificial intelligence and understand its agency and hence scariness? And where are the social aspects of the AI, the way it changes social interaction, enables surveillance and oppression etc. - is that all in the power c...| betterwithout.ai
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More to the point, it doesn’t posit that the AI villain has any kind of self-awareness or intentions. It has a limited ability to take control of other automated systems, and to adapt when its attempts to pursue its pre-programmed goals are thwarted. But it needs no mindness to be dangerous, just an carefully designed automated system, following goals and a rough plan given to it by its creator.| betterwithout.ai
GPT is already at the point where the easiest way to reason about it is to use our other-minds cognition.| betterwithout.ai
A bridge from systematic rationality to fluid meta-rational understanding may be necessary to prevent civilizational collapse.| Meta-rationality
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Recommendation media is the new standard for content distribution. Here’s why friend graphs can‘t compete in an algorithmic world.| Medium
Big surprise: CNET's writing robot doesn't know what it's talking about.| Gizmodo
For over two decades, CNET has built our reputation testing new technologies and separating the hype from reality.| CNET
Why it feels like everything is going haywire| The Atlantic
