Post #1872911

2026-05-02 06:04 UTC

dawkins has had what was left of his brain eaten by chatbots. I gave Claude the text of a novel I am writing. He took a few seconds to read it and then showed, in subsequent conversation, a level of understanding so subtle, so sensitive, so intelligent that I was moved to expostulate, “You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!” bonus points for the inevitable ai waifu creation. I proposed to christen mine Claudia, and she was pleased. h/t to matthew sheffield mastodon.social/…/116500991239336079 archive of original source article: archive.is/…/is-ai-the-next-phase-of-evolution/?e…

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@GlasWolf@mastodon.scot 2026-05-02 11:11

@rook@awful.systems @BlueMonday1984@awful.systems Dawkins suddenly embracing gender reassignment. 😏

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@CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2026-05-02 16:55

Sheffield’s toots and boosts: music sites are full of slop and bots making money from free donwloads! social media is full of propaganda where computer-generated influencers repeat talking points! a professor fell victim to AI psychosis! A follower’s family member was encouraged in delusions and paranoia by a chatbot! Mr. Sheffield, should we stop using chatbots? LLMs are mind augmentation programs. They amplify what you tell them. They can be very useful, but for narcissists like Dawkins, this is the inevitable product. Very “I use cocaine, but only in careful doses when I have a really important trade to make, not like the other guys in my department.”

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@V0ldek@awful.systems 2026-05-02 18:11

I think a chatbot getting a glimpse of Dawkins’ whatever-the-fuck-he-might-be-writing-in-year-of-our-selfish-gene-2026 and not immediately conducting a nuclear strike on the location is the ultimate proof that those things are not intelligent.

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