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I think about him a lot lately.

Are you saying my Magic 8-Ball does not cogitate? Blasphemy.

For the meaning of AI: I actually cringe when people think there's something deep to argument from ignorance — that because it's a vague term that something follows... Nothing follows except if we want to refine the term or its referents. 5/

this is all while compression and information theory continues to languish i have novel work in this area without a phd

you're a great writer olivia, i mean, not just what you write about, but deliciously so!

I find this aspect of the relentless AI shithousery one of the most egregious.

I never used that phrase

Also your analogy is absurd on it's face.

Emergent effects like causing extremely rapid empirically observable loss of skills and cognitive flexibility in everyone who uses it regardless of their use case?

The main emergent effect is that chatbots are making mediocre old men fall in love with them via sycophancy.

The phone screen is a deterministic system that only outputs what humans put in to it, just like "AI".

Yeah, it's cognition. My cognition does the combining of the pixels into a movie.

You really are desperate to believe the machine is thinking :)

The observable ’emergent effects’ are deskilling and labor theft, mate.

(in other words: man, what the fuck are you talking about?)

Seems like similar bad reasoning as information-processing models: If you have the same inputs and get the same output, then the process in between must be identical. Was wrong then and is wrong now.

fair! but also lol