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Depressive hedonia, Fisher’s
term for the downward spiral of closed pleasure-seeking feedback loops
in the form of late-night YouTube and Twitter scrolling, would become
an essential psychological precondition for 2010s radical right initiation,
confirmed by the cliché of “lonely, young, online, white men” being algo- rithmically captured into the alt-right (2009: 21–22).
Acid facism.pdf
Google Docs
Announcing PQXDH! The first step in post-quantum resistance for the Signal Protocol, PQXDH protects your Signal calls & chats from potential future threats of breakthroughs in quantum computing. And it's already rolling out to Signal clients everywhere.
https://t.co/feHqLXGJBE https://t.co/y121dDZBOr
Tweets From Signal
@signalapp on Twitter
So what surprised and disturbed me about Bengio’s response was not his assumption that biological brains are a kind of machine or computer. What surprised me was his refusal to grant, at least initially, that human intelligence — whether computational at the core or not — involves a rich suite of capabilities that extend well beyond what even cutting-edge AI tools do. We are more than efficient mathematical optimizers and probable next token generators.
The Danger of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think
Shannon Vallor
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