On the bright side, the fact that materialists feel threatened by all this that means that they really do believe that some things can be objectively true, not just politically convenient.
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Most of the technological advances by which we usually measure human intelligence awaited the discovery of metal working.
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If information consumers allow a modest correction for consistent pollster bias, we might get a fairly good idea of what might happen in an election.
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Could a modern writer come along and produce Orwell’s work, using AI? Possibly, but someone actually had to be Orwell first — to experience those events and write them down.
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Many people can write well without AI but the publisher must pay them. They are slashing staff and using AI instead because people aren’t reading as much.
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Being a game developer renders Virk vulnerable to missing the parts of Christianity that don’t feel like a game at all.
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Mayne argues that there will always be more demand for people to do things as prosperity grows. Historically, that is correct.
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A gambler would be wise to bet on eliminative materialism collapsing before panpsychism, which has its roots much deeper in the history of the mind.
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Overall, the problem of AI slop will certainly be complicated by government subsidy of legacy media, which removes the need for vigilance.
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Longtermism — making decisions based on assumptions about a far distant future where everything might be different — makes no sense.
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Why is a concept like the kludge brain, out of date and at odds with the facts, somehow more representative of science than an inference to design would be?
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Anthropomorphism has nothing to do with electronics as such. But there are new perils.
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If we reach the point where most people cannot muster the level of sustained attention needed to read a book, political changes unwelcome to many of us are inevitable.
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Why had no one tried using an AI detector on Orélien’s—and everyone else’s—work as a *condition of entry* into the writing contest?
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In addition to the Doomers, there is the AI rights crowd, worried that we will reduce intelligent AI agents to slavery.
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Perhaps the endless theorizing with so little result reflects what chance can produce. If researchers ever felt they could risk trying design, we could see if more insight follows.
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Instead of claiming, like the eliminationist, that neither humans nor slime molds are really intelligent, the panpsychist will claim that they both are — and then minimize the difference between them.
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Some researchers seem to think that communicating with animals via AI will show that they have minds like human ones. But their behavior does not suggest that.
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Materialists cannot apply common standards for assessing evidence because they must refute all evidence of non-materialism. That makes them hard to argue with.
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In an interesting cultural development, it’s easy to find people on the left and the right who are skeptical of the Doomers’ motives.
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