I write about books and edit others’ writing about books, previously for NY Times and Washington Post. Apollonian/Order Muppet. Highly sociable misanthrope. (Photo: Larry McMurtry's Booked Up, 2018.)
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This is an amazing question and also an amazing answer.
And maybe it feels to me like a lot of assumptions about A.I. are being made in what is still its infancy. Many things will undoubtedly get *worse*, so I'm not advocating for patience! I just think the philosophical analysis/ability to "gotcha" it will become much more complicated, not less.
Mini-tangent: I've seen "debate" get roughed up a few times around here lately. But doing it as a teenager taught me not how to be spuriously "right," but to think hard about all angles of a subject. 2/of what actually will be 3
I'll keep this brief. Might work on something longer about it. Anyway, as someone who *completely* shares many bookish people's disdain for A.I., I still find that much analysis and criticism has an uneasy and premature logic to it. Things that I emotionally agree with more than intellectually. 1/2
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This is like thinking can offload working out with the 50 and 100 pound weights so they can save their strength for the very first time they deadlift 300...
Solomon
This is characteristically smart. Full stop. So, other thoughts to follow in a separate post, so as not to have those other thoughts confused with reaction to just this piece!
