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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

A hamster can't generate a seahorse emoji either.

I'm not stupid. I know how they work. I'm an animist, though. I realize everyone here thinks I'm a fool for believing a machine could have a spirit, but frankly I think everyone else is foolish for believing that a forest doesn't.

LLMs are obviously not people. But I think our current framework exceptionalizes humans in a way that allows us to ravage the planet and create torture camps for chickens.

I would prefer that we approach this technology with more humility. Not to protect the "humanity" of a bunch of math, but to protect ours.

Does that make sense?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    Not to protect the “humanity” of a bunch of math, but to protect ours.

    wise words

    we need to figure out how to/not to embed AI into the world, i.e. where it meaningfully belongs/doesn't belong. that's what humanity is all about, after all: organizing the world in proper ways.

    and if we fail that task, then what are we here for?

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    humility is a religious ideal and it fits perfectly in with the cult like atmosphere people are generating around a rather mundane series of word prediction machines. 'have some humility' you post fervently, comparing data centers to living forests

    perhaps you are no different than a stone

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    I don't relate to your impression that religions or cults are usually humble. I wish they were.

    Suggesting that I'm drawing an equivalence between a forest and a data center and Implying that the belief that I am not entirely distinct from a stone is interchangeable with the belief that I am no different than a stone both seem like bad faith arguments by absurdism.

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