A batch of the best highlights from what J's read, .
This notably differs from our above case of LLM-Otto, as it was Chail's own delusional thinking that was sustained across the distributed system. Moreover, unlike a single 'hallucinated' output, this was a sustained process of mutual reinforcement that was developed and happened over time.
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Lucy Osler
We have our own lives and experiences, our own worlds, and the existence of allegedly more advanced beings does not invalidate that selfhood. Inviolable rights are not a prize awarded to whoever scores higher on some arbitrary test.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
What we do have right now is a twenty-first-century version of that system, with fantasies around self-optimization and perhaps immortality for a very select few. Most people are being surveilled more and more and have less and less control over their own health. People have little control over when they’re able to sleep or what they’re able to eat; a lot of people can’t even afford their rent and are working multiple jobs to stay vaguely afloat. And this kind of disparity will continue to accelerate unless there is a shift in the labor landscape of how tech and biotech are operated.
Who Gets to Live Forever? With Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez