@iamdavidobrien Yes, this is definitely a coherent way of reading it. I’ve found that the more times I browse through it the more layered I find it. She asks a lot of questions about what we believe and what we find enjoyable… And it leaves so much open. Especially of course the end, and why people leave, rather than voice their objection.
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@danne Thank you! I’ve just started following Joel on Nebula. I’m very fond of his articulate takes.
@biggestjoel
@datarama Exactly this is likely what I am afraid of. I’m afraid of the unmasking. Which of course makes it even more important for me to address.
This morning I re-read Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story ’The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’ to find the bits I need to make a comparison to the AI hype of today.
It’s so very beautiful in it’s simplicity and also just tore my heart out. It was more detailed in the child’s suffering than I remembered.
I want to write an essay that brings attention to everyone suffering for the AI benefactors to gain their advantages.
- the exploited labeling workers
- the people mining minerals
- the people who suffer from the data centre pollution and drainage
But I am afraid it’s going to be tough writing and people just won’t get it… I have seen the children that the child in the story reflects.
Will rest on this a few more days.
If you have not read it, it’s available here:
https://archive.org/stream/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-ursula-k-leguin/The%20Ones%20Who%20Walk%20Away%20from%20Omelas%20-%20Ursula%20K%20LeGuin_djvu.txt
"An important characteristic of our society is that it has developed technologies that distribute responsibility in a way so that no one has it."
– Joseph Weizenbaum in 'Islands in the Cyberstream'.
If your excuse for harmful actions is "if I don't do it someone else will", then you are the equivalent of the person doing it when someone else refused.
Okay so I gave ‘Fool Me Once’ a chance. Three episodes. But wow the dialogue and script is painstakingly bad.
Too bad, the idea for the setup was intriguing.
«[AGI] interprets the Turing Test as an engineering prediction, arguing that the machine “learning” algorithms of today will naturally evolve as they increase in power to think subjectively like humans, including emotion, social skills, consciousness and so on. The claims that increasing computer power will eventually result in fundamental change are hard to justify on technical grounds, and some say this is like arguing that if we make aeroplanes fly fast enough, eventually one will lay an egg.»
– Alan Blackwell in "Moral Codes"
https://moralcodes.pubpub.org
@deadsuperhero Same. I'm really happy I made the move from WP.
@deadsuperhero I hope you're keeping an eye on Ghost's ventures into ActivityPub.
https://activitypub.ghost.org
@ollej Tack! ❤️
@kolombiken Tack snälla. ❤️🫶
@ethicalrevolution Thank you Sam. Wise words. 🫶
@LeoR1010 Tack Leo! ❤️
@simons Tack. ❤️
@ambivalena Tack! 🙏❤️