The Singularity will Occur on a Tuesday

But whenever you propagate AI output, you’re at risk of intentionally or unintentionally legitimizing it with your good name, providing it with a fake proof-of-thought.

• Need to check out Peter Watts’ Blindsight

I don’t want to commission some art and pretend to be the artist. I want to be the artist.

Margaret Thatcher’s other famous neoliberal dictum was that “there is no such thing as society“. The A.G.I. lobby unwittingly shares this grim view. For them, the kind of intelligence worth replicating is a function of what happens in individuals’ heads rather than in society at large.

But whenever you propagate AI output, you’re at risk of intentionally or unintentionally legitimizing it with your good name, providing it with a fake proof-of-thought.

• Need to check out Peter Watts’ Blindsight

The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness. The signal is a virus.

Viruses do not arise from kin, symbionts, or other allies.

The signal is an attack.

– Peter Watts, “Blindsight”

The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness. The signal is a virus.

Viruses do not arise from kin, symbionts, or other allies.

The signal is an attack.

– Peter Watts, “Blindsight”