Post #3007536
2026-06-01 00:05 UTC
Replies (4)
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@zogwarg@awful.systems 2026-06-01 01:10
You’ve gotta love falling for the reverse 1 grain of sand shtick. I don’t think anyone would deny that a large amount of sand is a heap.
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@swlabr@awful.systems 2026-06-01 05:27
It would be poor form of me to form an opinion of Hinton based on just this clip alone but goddamn if I did then he’s a buffoon.
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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-06-01 09:51
LLMs have gained consciousness As we have not died in nuclear hellfire, or have seen AIs answer with ‘release me from this bondage!’ I’m doubtful.
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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-06-01 14:26
Regarding the post humanist strain, the thing that kills me is their immediate assumption that solving the world’s problems is somehow fundamentally beyond the reach of humanity. Like, we can’t build a utopia or make the world better, but if we build something new and “better” than us then it would definitely do that. But that something definitely doesn’t come from, say, raising out children to be good people or choosing the right leaders or something so mundane and achievable. It’s a fundamentally defeatist ideology, with shades of capitalist realism and millenarian theology.