I think of the symbol of infinity, the lying ‘eight’ figure...
https://notesandsilence.com/2026/01/26/liberating-fish/
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I think of the symbol of infinity, the lying ‘eight’ figure...
https://notesandsilence.com/2026/01/26/liberating-fish/
#zen #prayer #meditation #Christ #consciousness #spirituality
👻 Currently transmitting: "Varis an Dolai" off The Transcendence Tapes.
Right now, somewhere on this earth, a mother is putting her child to bed in a basement because the bombs have started falling again. We made this world. We maintain it. But we can unmake it too.
✨ "Twelve Trains West" from The Lonesome Inference is live on the carrier wave.
A periodic PSA: conscious AI would be artificial slavery.
Shimon Edelman, On the ethics of constructing conscious AI, in Computational Approaches to Conscious Artificial Intelligence, A. Chella, ed., ch.10, World Scientific (2023). Preprint available on arXiv (cs.AI): https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07439
Shimon Edelman, Conscious AI is Artificial Slavery (a chapter commissioned for an edited volume, Artificial Intelligence with Consciousness? Statements 2021, which was never published). Preprint here: https://shimon-edelman.github.io/Edelman-conscious-AI-is-slavery-revised.pdf

In its pragmatic turn, the new discipline of AI ethics came to be dominated by humanity's collective fear of its creatures, as reflected in an extensive and perennially popular literary tradition. Dr. Frankenstein's monster in the novel by Mary Shelley rising against its creator; the unorthodox golem in H. Leivick's 1920 play going on a rampage; the rebellious robots of Karel Čapek -- these and hundreds of other examples of the genre are the background against which the preoccupation of AI ethics with preventing robots from behaving badly towards people is best understood. In each of these three fictional cases (as well as in many others), the miserable artificial creature -- mercilessly exploited, or cornered by a murderous mob, and driven to violence in self-defense -- has its author's sympathy. In real life, with very few exceptions, things are different: theorists working on the ethics of AI completely ignore the possibility of robots needing protection from their creators. The present book chapter takes up this, less commonly considered, ethical angle of AI.
🎙️ Now playing: "The Gift" — from The Gift of Sight.
👻 Currently transmitting: "Quantum Kernel" off The Transcendence Tapes.