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Shared emphasis Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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minds not equipped handle AI essay

Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI

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Data & Society Hypervisible Benjamin Riley Stefanie Hane
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“AI “is something like a cognitive version of a hot dog,” @benjaminjriley.bsky.social writes. “It appeals to us in the moment, but undermines the health and sustainability of cognitive systems we’ve evolved over several millennia.” www.theverge.com/ai-artifi…”

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Benjamin Riley: I'm again grateful to @theverge.com for publishing my newest long-form essay on the limits of the computational model of the mind, the benefits of understanding both biological and cultural evoluti…
Hypervisible : I'm again grateful to @theverge.com for publishing my newest long-form essay on the limits of the computational model of the mind, the benefits of understanding both biological and cultural evoluti…
Benjamin Riley: It’s never left my mind since I read it
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Established AI field signal Signal 14d ago

Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI

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Benjamin Riley

“My views on this have likewise changed, I agree that the mythological separation of mind from body, and also treating the former as purely a computer, has created quite a mess. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...”

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Amy Hoy: in case anyone wonders how they fake the appearance of a mind — by faking the sensation of conversation — i wrote a whole thread about it tl;dr NONE of that is in the actual model, 100% of it is in…
John Warner: It's all such nonsense! I'm glad my grandmother isn't alive because she would be telling a lot of people off right now. "Don't be so open minded you let your brain fall out,"
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD: I can’t stress enough that this notion of if and when It will gain consciousness is Bible fanfic. It’s not real.
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AI goes Office Space essay

AI goes Office Space

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Benjamin Riley

“Man this has been plaguing me. Groped at the issue here: buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/ai-goes-of...”

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad: Given how most people still don’t fully understand how large language models work, I feel like it makes sense to regulate who can use an AI agent.
Benjamin Riley: Man this has been plaguing me. Groped at the issue here: buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/ai-goes-of...
Katie (Kathryn) Conrad: Ps I brought up agents as an issue for institutional security & integrity at my U last summer. Personally, I think we should slow the roll on deployments & then as expertise builds in an institutio…
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5 experts · 20 posts · 20d ago
Benjamin Riley Colin Anthony Moser tweety fish Robin Z
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Anthony Moser: i'm hearing computers are able to do math now and this is supposed to be sufficiently impressive that i forget ai companies are fully part of the fascist project
tweety fish: Literally none of the people you were talking to about this said that or believe it, what the heck?
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2 experts · 9 posts · 6d ago
Benjamin Riley Shriram Krishnamurthi
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Shriram Krishnamurthi: 8/ Still: it is beautifully written, thoughtful, thought-provoking, broad in scope yet light in heft, and speaks a lot to us in the AI age. I got it one afternoon and read it in essentially one sit…
Shriram Krishnamurthi: 7/ The book's weakness is that it's overly situated in its time, which is not unique nor special. A really interesting companion would be the History of the Future of the Past: How does each genera…
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2 experts · 8 posts · 9d ago
Eryk Salvaggio Benjamin Riley
Eryk Salvaggio: There are just so many fascinating and worrisome questions to ask about this technology but all of the attention is on the dumbest possible version of them, and I don’t think that’s an accident.
Eryk Salvaggio: Meanwhile, problems that are solvable (not necessarily through tech) go unaddressed, because we are trapped in a structure of debates that has no correspondence to the purpose of a debate.
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