“We cannot afford to believe the marketing message from A.I. companies that we may be dealing with some spiritual essence,” Leif Weatherby writes.
the extra stupid thing is a poetry seminar is probably the better preparation to do something that makes money
These aren’t just em-dashes — they’re genuine pauses for thought
"The definition of human is implicitly reduced to the narrowing set of behaviors, traits, and capacities that machines do not yet possess—which leaves secular humanists defending the shrinking ground that is left." Nice h/t @leifw.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
Notable thinkers keep telling us they think A.I. is conscious. That doesn’t mean it’s true.
The funniest part of this is that this reaction basically amounts to saying “Mr Turing, don’t you understand that math is mechanical?”
Video of the talk I gave at the Cultural AI conference at NYU back in March is finally up (thanks again to @leifw.bsky.social and @t-shoemaker.bsky.social for having arranged this excellent event). www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYu9...
i'm not mad, i'm just disappointed
the answer to "do you beat your wife" would presumably be just "no" - it's super funny that he can't muster the correct trick here ("when did you stop beating your wife?")
New York Times Opinion
this is a lot more productive than "Richard Dawkins is a moron"
i want to go on record there's a non-zero chance that the granta thing was written by Nazir as a double mockery of AI and MFA postcolonial prose; the move here would be to claim that it's a study of this collapse between aggregate style in the dying industry and LLMs - just sayin
