This post is going to make me sound high (I'm not), but if the "computer" was once just a metaphor for the mind, and then sometimes hardened into an ontological claim, are we now just seeing the reverse? i.e. the "mind" as a metaphor for AI that's being taken too literally?
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Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
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There is something very “what if the company behind Kool-Aid funded Heaven’s Gate” about the current AI doomsday discourse.
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