Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Apr 14, 2023

Okay, so are these 8 pages of motivated reasoning formatted like they've been submitted to Science or to Nature?

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-2724922/v1_covered.pdf?c=1680083818

Look, you can't count the carbon emissions that people have for (check notes) existing as the "carbon cost" of the work that they do.

I can't believe this needs to be said, but: LLMs are *optional*. Humans are not.

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@emilymbender I really feel like this, and other stuff like that "AI focus group" thing, are really about trying to reduce a human to "a piece of equipment, perhaps now obsolete, for accomplishing a task" - rather than "a person, with their own experiences and value and dignity, deserving of respect and consideration."

That scares the heck out of me.

Apr 14, 2023 at 2:53pmWeb
Show threadFeralRobotsApr 14, 2023
@arcanesciences
Reducing humans to the status of perhaps-obsolete-equipment is a necessary moral precondition to the #Longermist program of replacing us with 10**48 (or whatever their made-up quantity is) hypothetical simulations of humans at some hypothetical future time.
#Longtermism #ExistentialRisk
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