Post #4362839
2026-08-03 08:34 UTC
The low-rez Turing Test that captured popular discourse is profoundly misleading. It's the unsound foundation of a worldview that renders you incapable of distinguishing your understanding of your spouse from their phone's autocomplete function. It's the self-serving rationale that leads you to declare yourself a proud stochastic parrot:
https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1599471830255177728
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-03 08:34
The AI bubble is (seemingly) full of contradictions, but - like those baffling coin-tricks - these contradictions often resolve themselves very neatly once you realize that the "contradiction" is actually just *two things* that appear to be one. For example, *some* of the billionaires who put up the first several hundred million for AI are solipsists who just don't believe other people are entirely real and therefore find it easy to believe that AI can do their jobs. 15/