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Why We Fear AI book essay

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares — Common Notions Press

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Hypervisible Luke Stark Hagen Blix
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SE Gyges: this was early enough that it was very insightful and is now sort of transparently true if you think the gizmo isn't useful you're ignoring most major software project and all computer security pro…
SE Gyges: *projects, damn
SE Gyges: i am hoping to carve out a niche of hater that hates specific bad actors for specific bad acts instead of being mad about the bot itself
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Why we fear AI book essay

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares — Common Notions Press

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Ali Alkhatib Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Hagen Blix

“this piece arguing against nationalizing AI is really good. not surprised! @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg's book was a hit with the reading group when we read it a few months ago”

“That's also chapter 2 of Why We Fear AI! www.commonnotions.org/buy/why-we-f...”

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Hagen Blix: The projection of the climate threat onto AI is a major theme of our book, too
Tom Wallis: I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize ex…
Hagen Blix: Let us know what you think!
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ML ethical judgments NLP paper

On the Machine Learning of Ethical Judgments from Natural Language

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Hagen Blix

“Don't forget about language! Also totally solved! (I co-wrote a paper a few years ago telling the Natural Language Processing community that ethics is not a benchmarkable problem that you can "solve", but.. well, you can imagine how much of an effect that had)”

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Hagen Blix: They're all guys who think the answer to the trolley problem is literally just a number
Hagen Blix: They're people who cultivate a "personality" around a particular number at which they'd flip the switch.
Hagen Blix: Don't forget about language! Also totally solved! (I co-wrote a paper a few years ago telling the Natural Language Processing community that ethics is not a benchmarkable problem that you can "solv…
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3 experts · 12 posts · 20d ago
Hagen Blix Matthew Kirschenbaum tweety fish
Matthew Kirschenbaum: Let me put it this way: that others routinely misinterpret your words to the point where you feel called to patrol social media to confront and correct them, is its own indicator that “communicativ…
tweety fish: Let me put it this way: that others routinely misinterpret your words to the point where you feel called to patrol social media to confront and correct them, is its own indicator that “communicativ…
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3 experts · 7 posts · 20d ago
Henry Farrell Rachel Coldicutt Hagen Blix
Rachel Coldicutt: I see some discussion here about the days of stochastic parrots being over, and I think there is an in-ter-est-ing thing to note that *one's own* conversations a chatbot can seem quite plausible an…
Rachel Coldicutt: And it canNOT simply be the case that everyone else is a loser using Opus 5.1 while you're on Fable 5.5 or whatever, I do honestly thing there is something strangely ego-soothing about it that make…
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2 experts · 8 posts · 17d ago
Hagen Blix Justin Joque
Justin Joque: In my AI class today I'm going to try to convince my students that super intelligence has already arrived, far surpassed humanity, already rules the world with humans doing its will and it is not a…
Hagen Blix: Ha, Why We Fear AI said it might be wheat or the potato!
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2 experts · 6 posts · 11d ago
Olivia Guest Hagen Blix
Hagen Blix: Crucial for more people to make this link very explicitly, imho! In Why We Fear AI, we connect this to the fact that AI is a deskilling device - technology that serves the devaluation of knowledge …
Hagen Blix: Personally, I think the AGI/"general substitute for labor" framing is totally missing the point
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2 experts · 5 posts · 8d ago
Hagen Blix Amy Hoy
Amy Hoy: me: so it’s obvious that llms aren’t conscious bc they have no memory, no persistence, each turn is totally fresh, it’s fakery random dude: yeah well your perception is also an illusion bc of sacca…
Hagen Blix: I keep saying, LLMs are a P-Zombie detector
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