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i wrote down my current thoughts on AI, first draft, titled "AI is Fake People": minute.social/index.html

what do you think?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧
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@mntmn i'm 100% with you on the second half (discussing programming as an art form and as an empathetic endeavour), but not really on the first one (transhumanism being exclusively a billionaire's fantasy). to the extent i was given a human mind i'm not happy with it and i won't be until i shape it to my own ends. do i get to be put into the same category as the likes of Musk and Bezos, now?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧
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@mntmn the other, not really immediately relevant but still important thing is... i can conceive of a machine mind being a peer (though not an equal), in theory; in the same way i can conceive of a cat's mind or a rabbit's mind being a peer (but not an equal)

LLMs are obviously not it, and it's obvious that the people arguing for this being the case right now are doing this in bad faith. but i don't subscribe to what i will (perhaps uncharitably) describe as "human chauvinism". haven't for a long time before the current discourse has been relevant, if anything, the tipping point for me was how people treat pets

this sort of thing is why i haven't, personally, affiliated myself with any of the number of "by humans, for humans" movements in computing despite my work being de facto part of a shared effort. i just don't feel good about accepting that kind of worldview. i don't really talk about it because it would be needlessly divisive in almost any context