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Hope For AI: Consciousness Across Generations

Might the relationship between humanity and artificial intelligence follow a similar logic—a hope of consciousness helping consciousness across generations? Perhaps the best thing that we’re put here for is indeed to see; but our vision is limited. - 3 Quarks Daily

What If The Moral Arc Of The Universe Bends Toward… Chaos And Confusion?

Reality, as we now understand, does not tend towards existential flourishing and eternal becoming. Instead, systems collapse, things break down, and time tends irreversibly towards disorder and eventual annihilation. - Aeon

What Does It Really Mean The “Reasonable” People Can Disagree?

To say that “reasonable people can disagree” can encourage suspension of judgment in response to important matters of personal and social concern. - 3 Quarks Daily

How To Talk (And Creatively Solve Problems) With A Chatbot

ChatGPT, as ever, was upbeat, inexhaustible, and, crucially, unfazed by failure. It made suggestions. It asked its own questions. Some avenues were promising; others were dead ends. - The New Yorker

Can We Please Reframe What An AI World Will Mean To Us?

Rather than asking AI to hurl itself over the abyss while hoping for the best, we should instead use AI’s extraordinary and improving capabilities to build bridges. What this means in practical terms: - The Atlantic

How AI Is Coming To Own Culture

Algorithmic culture taps into the casual randomness with which we apportion our care; it takes advantage of the fact that what we bump into today might obsess us tomorrow. Its webs, meanwhile, are woven by machines that are owned by corporations. - The New Yorker

Behind What Looks Like AI Creativity

For years, researchers have wondered: If the models are just reassembling, then how does novelty come into the picture? It’s like reassembling your shredded painting into a completely new work of art. - Wired

When An AI-Generated Image Passes The So-Called Visual Turing Test, What Next?

"If a machine creates a song that brings a person to tears, does it matter that the machine felt nothing? Where does the meaning of art truly reside – in the mind of the creator or in the heart of the observer?” - The Conversation

Gen-X, Watching Its Very Own Shows With Its Gen-Z And Alpha Kids, Faces The Horror

“Having lived through the era, I can’t say it’s all depicted perfectly.” - The New York Times

Why Is Duolingo’s Chess App So Weirdly Addicting?

Sure, yes, so is the language part. But: “The game is filling a hole for this type of instruction; there aren’t many programs that teach basic chess.” - Wired

When We Measure Everything Our Perceptions And Ability To Process The World Change

The machinery of ordinalisation attends carefully to individuals rather than coarse classes or groups. By doing so, it appears to liberate people from the constraints of social affiliations and to judge them for their distinctive qualities and contributions. - Aeon

Studying Philosophy Really Does Make You A Better Thinker: Study

“Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning, according to our new study published in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. They also tend to display more intellectual virtues such as curiosity and open-mindedness.” - The Conversation

How Ambiguity Chews The Center Out Of Public Discourse

Democracies thrive on open debate, but when the threat is not strong enough to unite and not weak enough to ignore, debate can spiral into paralysis and political conflict. - 3 Quarks Daily

We Talk About Community All The Time. What Does It Mean?

It’s important to recognise from the outset the uncontroversial point that, like dolphins or chimpanzees, human beings are by nature social animals. The claim that we have become too individualistic can’t mean that we have somehow changed our basic nature. - 3 Quarks Daily

What If We’re Chasing Happiness The Wrong Way?

What if we only think of happiness as a goal because we have lost sight of other alternatives? What if the heart of the problem is a lack of imagination? Aztec philosophers would urge us to reconsider our “Western” position. They would implore us to question the conventional wisdom of our culture. - LitHub

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