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Note that this does not imply that we necessarily think our Generative AI models are conscious. We likely address them "as if" they were another, what Sweeney (2023) describes as a fictional dualism (also see Coeckelbergh 2011; Krueger & Osler 2022; Krueger & Roberts 2024; Roberts & Krueger 2022).
Problem is, while he’s on the general subject of Failure, he can’t help probing the nearby, related topic of What the Fuck Went Wrong with Mankind.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
As Israel maintains its apartheid across Palestine and intensifies its desolation of Gaza it becomes ever more apparent that the colonial and social order is built not only upon *the aesthetic*, a policing of lives that determines who has a part and participates, but also upon what I call the *anaesthetic*, a policing of lives that shapes not their *participation* but their *eradication*.
Anaesthetic Violence
illwill.com
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