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Existentialism was a philosophy which claimed that human beings (what Sartre called the “for-itself”) are “condemned to be free”, and that any attempt to avoid responsibility for one’s actions amounts to bad faith.
But with ACI, it would occur on an unprecedented scale: each agent with its own ability to consult, analyze, and communicate its perspective on the sum total of human knowledge. At lightning speed, this perspective gets checked by the perspective of a potentially unlimited number of other agents engaged in the same process. It is difficult not to see this as the AI breakthrough of the future.
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For AI models, meaning is predetermined as a statistical artifact and treated as inherently calculable. Everything is in principle already determined, and the possibility of generating new concepts — a collaborative, intentional human social process necessarily requiring the free play of our faculties — is replaced by more powerful machines identifying more and more statistical patterns, applying more labels, reifying more experience in advance.
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