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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
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McSweeney's AI economics satire

AI Economics for Dummies

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Lynn Cherny Shannon Mattern Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Dare Obasanjo tante Salomé Viljoen Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 Meredith Martin +6

“Blood Sacrifice Fridays… lol -mcsweenys on AI finance www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...”

“McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies”

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AI consciousness essay discourse

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

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Gil Durán Dare Obasanjo Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 rev. howard arson Amy Hoy Matthew Sheffield

“The idea that AI chatbots are alive because you can ask them if they're alive and they respond is funny when you consider an AI chatbot can't even accurately answer about what features it has yet we expect it to answer if it has a soul correctly. People are…”

“i think there's an actual question embedded in the "if Claude were representing Genghis Khan and Julius Caesar, would we say that it was really the thing itself?" hypothetical, and it is "should an actor playing Brutus be permitted to stab Caesar to death o…”

Primary source theatlantic.com ↗
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3 experts · 20 posts · 10d ago
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 Dan Hon Amy Hoy
Dan Hon: Something about the number of flops and cost required for someone to use a computer to program a database for their recipes in the kitchen in the early 80s/late 70s compared to getting Claude to on…
Dan Hon: It'd be interesting to map all the personal software people are agentic coding against all the ads from the 70s and 80s of what you'd use a computer for
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