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Even if you work inside the system, you don’t need to let the system work inside of you.
"Multitasking Isn't Progress—It's What Wild Animals Do for Survival"
Ted Gioia
This is why the question of an “artificial citizen” matters, and why we cannot answer it yet. You cannot hand a machine rights or sentience or a place among us without first asking whether it can do what a human brain does: act, predict, get corrected, and carry the consequence. That is the bar active inference sets. Until a machine clears it, every anthropomorphic word we use — AI “thinks,” “understands,” “is reasoning about the myriad steps of making a bowl of cereal” — is marketing.
The Infinity of the Brain and the Void of the Machine
Ayush Prakash
Yet we all know (or should know) that the choices available to us are hardly random. They radically expand and contract based on which countries we happened to be born into, which bodies, which genders, which races, which families. It’s not only individual lives that hold doppelganger potentialities—so, too, do whole societies.
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