Starting a short thread on #LLM #AI #Chatbots ...

A friend asked me to read and respond to a blog post by #UgoBardi, a scientist and activist of some note. I did and ended up writing a short essay about it. Here is a link to the original Bardi/Claude post for reference: https://livingearth.substack.com/p/your-voice-your-choice-a-post-by

The first and major criticism is 👉 THERE IS NO "I" THERE.👈 We are so used to the conceit of these systems referring to themselves in the first person that we are put off our guard. Consider this...

"The ELIZA Effect is a tendency to project human traits—such as experience, semantic comprehension or empathy—onto rudimentary computer programs having a textual interface." [Wikipedia]

#Claude by #Anthropic is no longer "rudimentary" like the original #ELIZA from 1966, but the effect is still there!

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https://richard.mdpaths.com/commentary/artificial_intelligence/index.html

The Seneca effect, or Seneca cliff or Seneca collapse, is a mathematical model proposed by Ugo Bardi to describe situations where a system's rate of decline is much sharper than its earlier rate of growth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_effect

#SenecaEffect #Complexity #ComplexSystems #Collapse #UgoBardi

"Se habla de colapso como si fuera un evento puntual, pero en realidad no lo es: se trata de un proceso que funciona como las manchas de un leopardo, de forma desigual y por regiones. Europa será la primera gran región en sentir el fin del crecimiento económico."

#Decrecimiento, #UgoBardi, #AntonioTuriel

https://www.larazon.es/medio-ambiente/ano-fin-crecimiento-industrial_20251219694521b622f0db7daff76dd8.html

1/2 Twelve years ago #UgoBardi invited me to contribute a chapter on #PreciousMetals to his book on resource extraction. It remains a relevant resource, if you wish to understand the turmoil sweeping the #Silver market.

For decades the amount of silver consumed in industry and hoarded by investment funds has outstripped mining. Novel import duties in the US prompted exceptional flows, eventually uncovering the reality of a market where industrial stocks cannot plug the mining gap forever.

«El inglés komo una lengua sakra: el kamino a una eklesia global» por #UgoBardi (English as a Sacred Language: the path to a global ecclesia, 2020/06/28)
https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2020/06/english-as-sacred-language-path-to-new.html?m=1

#Linguístika

💌 Tenemos un nuevo boletín en el que agrupamos algunos de nuestros encuentros / entrevistas del segundo semestre del 2023.
Con #UgoBardi #MartaTafalla @Liegey #JuanPabloGutierrez y #LaOsaCoop.
@radioklara @radioalmaina
#RadioÁgoraSol #RadioUtopía #RadioEspiritrompa.

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Escribimos una newsletter cada 4 o 6 meses para compartir un resumen de lo que sucede en un proyecto audiovisual hecho con mucho amor e ideales #decrecentistas, #ecofeministas, #decoloniales y #anticapitalistas.

Abrazos.
🤝Por separado no lo conseguiremos.

😀 Nos emociona contarte que mañana estrenamos entrevista con Ugo Bardi. Además queremos recomendarte su libro titulado: Antes del colapso. Prólogo de Jorge Riechmann y editado por https://www.catarata.org/ 📖

✍️ “La humanidad parece estar empeñada en jugar una partida mortal de ruleta rusa donde el clima de la Tierra es un arma cargada” Ugo Bardi, Antes del colapso.

#CambioClimatico #Colapso #Decrecimiento #Degrowth #Postcrecimiento #NoHayPlanetaB #lecturasrecomendadas #UgoBardi #JorgeRiechmann #MedioAmbiente

"... the hope that we have... to develop a more balanced society is to favour diversity of the web... since the network is so fragmented, the real mad people don't do much damage. Otherwise, if the system is so well connected as it was in Germany in the early 1930s and the early 1920s, then you have the risk that the single madman would take over the whole system..."

#UgoBardi, Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Florence

https://www.buzzsprout.com/451003/10125783-the-propaganda-trap

#podcast #PoliticalCompass