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A protocol moves much more slowly than a platform. After 30+ years, email is still unencrypted; meanwhile WhatsApp went from unencrypted to full e2ee in a year. People are still trying to standardize sharing a video reliably over IRC; meanwhile, Slack lets you create custom reaction emoji based on your face.
My First Impressions of Web3
moxie.org
As the philosopher Thomas Nagel noted, it must “be like” something to be a bat, but what that is we cannot even imagine—because we have no idea what it would be like to observe the world through a kind of sonar. We can imagine what it might be like for a human to do this (perhaps by closing our eyes and picturing a sort of echolocation point cloud of our surroundings), but that’s not what it must be like for a bat, with its bat mind.
What an Octopus’s Mind Can Teach Us About AI’s Ultimate Mystery
octopus test
But these models, built by hoovering up large swathes of the internet, are also accelerating language loss, in the same way colonization and assimilation policies did previously.
A New Vision of Artificial Intelligence for the People
technologyreview.com
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