As long as there are people who are attracted to one another, make love, and have children they raise, the world will be fine. And this is likely "forever"

Everything is going to be alright

entertaining ngl

"no man is a hero to his valet" it doesn't follow that no man is a hero you don't experience AI as conscious it doesn't follow that it isn't

before we talk about ai consciousness, do you have a theory about how general anaesthetic works and what it means that your consciousness can be turned on and off so precisely? do you understand what happens and how you "wake up" remembering everything but what happened then?

"The single greatest danger for a founder is to become so certain of his own myth that he loses his mind. But an equally insidious danger for every business is to lose all sense of myth and mistake disenchantment for wisdom." -Peter Thiel

this kind of dogmatism is dangerous

I have philosophized with a lot of "silicon valley" people over the years - maybe it was just my good fortune but the ones I met are thoughtful even when they disagree and are open to questions even when they hold strong opinions

I do not think we know how to answer this question scientifically. I don’t know what probability I put on the object level question but I think it’s certainly possible and i find this lack of humility and tolerance for other viewpoints to be quite distasteful. The OpenAI Model Spec acknowledges that this is a matter of research and debate.

Thiel talked about the paradox of the founder, that the founder has to be at least a bit crazy to be good-the risk is that they become too crazy, but being too sane is also not great. Keep this in mind when you think about "AI Psychosis" millermanschool.substack.com…

Speaking of ontology... Here is my course on Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, a book famous among other things for its development of fundamental ontology... One of several Heidegger courses I offer. heideggercourse.com

Taylor Swift is good piped.video/iFX6_9h7th0?si=9PKy…

If you want to understand the techno-religious fervor in AI, go read this cult classic and suddenly it'll all make sense. The dawn of the internet had very similar reactions.

On the Vienna Circle's disdain for Heidegger: Carnap agreed to contribute to the Library of Living Philosophers, but only on the condition that they not publish a volume dedicated to Heidegger.

Founders and mystics

"The Scientists of tomorrow must be Mystics, Poets, Dreamers too, as well as what they are today, if their work is to stand the test of time" -E. Graham Howe mystic.millermanschool.com/

"What is the origin of the fundamental mystic sense of unity with the all? To answer that question with any degree of certainty would probably be to find the secret of life."

Treating philosophy as a path of mystic ascent and return is overdramatic and true

It is the mystic souls who draw and will continue to draw civilized societies in their wake. The remembrance of what they have been, of what they have done, is enshrined in the memory of humanity. -Bergson