🗨️ 👩🏽💻 What a coincidence, isn't it?
What's your take on that one, ladies/gentlemen/others?
@skua , @amici , @homohortus31 et al
I'd love to read your opinion (quick assessment, link to post or thought) 👇🏽 #ai #algorithms #chaostheory #maths #philosophy #metadata
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I Do Not Think, Therefore I Am
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos
(Publ. DEC-18)
@villebooks @skua @amici @homohortus31
I like starting simple, and direct.
"Thinking" is any response to a change in my environment.
Therefore, if I respond to something, "I" exist.
How's that for a start?
@Stegosaurus Excellent - and simple, Steve -
IT Script: "If I respond, I exist":
So what about life forms not responding, (or patients in coma i.e.) - anything one can not display in MRT CT / EM measurements - would you call it thinking nonetheless, or following the single drive of electromagnetic waves and particles?
@villebooks @skua @amici @homohortus31
Those in a coma still breathe, heart beats, etc. If we allow the "I" to exist in the brain, then the environment includes their own body.
As for non responsive life forms, we call many of them dead, or in some form of stasis. I'm a fan of tardigrades, and they can rehydrate back to life after decades of non-responsiveness.
@Stegosaurus Right, breathing is a (unconscious) physical reaction indeed - I love tardigrades, too -- thanks for reply, Steve
@villebooks @Stegosaurus @skua @amici Therefore, internet searches, like prompts in an AI, can shorten or lengthen thought, depending on whether one uses the search/AI precisely for a specific result or more vaguely.
That being said, I will continue to quote Buenaventura de Sousa Santos regarding what I call epistemic overdetermination: the supposed superiority of one epistemology compared to others (the Western one, in this case), coupled with a recursive effect (hence the OVERdetermination).
@homohortus31 Simply put: There is no machine that cannot learn from Homo Hortus - I'm glad to have you, either way 😅
Still reading that honey pot. :-)
I'm seeing that if I use "If something responds then that something has an "I" " then I'll have ascribed mechanical systems "I"s.
Which is worrying at first but then dissolves into "Ah, gods & spirits everywhere. I've heard of that."
@skua Well ... and that's something we can't hardly discuss in all detail in here 👋🏽 😅 But feel free to share posts, if they appear "out of the spirits' blue"
@skua Well ... and that's something we can't hardly discuss in all detail in here 👋🏽 😅 But feel free to share posts, if they appear "out of the spirits' blue"
@villebooks @skua @amici @homohortus31
First, substack bad.
Its a fascist, antitrans platform.
The hypocrisy paradox has eaten its own tail, posting an anti-neoliberal intellectualism essay on that platform.
The essay is rich in highbrow ideas, and I do not do it justice engaging with it.
My critique generally applies to many #Luddite #AI antagonists, folks who do not use a tech, having very strong (and usually inaccurate) opinions about tech they don't use.
You can not conduct literally critique if your reading skill is at grade 10. Or more crass, virgins commenting about evils of sex.
How do I know the author has not used AI in any depth? Because they think it provides instant answers... Which is true if you ask it simple questions. But I myself had many Socratic dialogues with the model delving into depths of science anywhere from Information warfare to Exotic manifold.
Show me YOUR landing page of YouTube, and Ill tell you the level the algorithm shoots at.
#aicritique
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@villebooks @skua @amici @homohortus31
As I maintain, using #AI is a learned skill
If you HATE the tech, your opinion is going to be as credible as any other haters, not very credible.
Second sign the essay lacks (IMHO) credibility, is the notion that AI atrophies cognition.
The paper that gets quoted most often in support of this thesis is written by a Media professor, its a preprint and lack actual data values.
I postulate that AI gear-shifts up human cognitive abilities, removing the pedestrian component of it, just as typewriters, calculators and computers before removed the shackles of rote.
Here is my analog;
https://infosec.exchange/@n_dimension/114657347248606224
Third, AI did not appear overnight, it was the excreta at the long chain of big data and copyright violations over decades. Some of the most ardent antagonists of AI have no problems feeding the Moloch with their own use of Corporate email, Socials and even device keyboards (all feeding the AI training data)
Lastly, there is plenty to criticise about AI.
But most folks lack credibility to do it in a meaningful way as they do not use or follow the tech.
My solution is to #regulateAI but mostly I see memes and anxious anger.
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Attached: 1 image Critical reasoning vs Cognitive Delegation Old School Focus: Building internal cognitive capabilities and managing cognitive load independently. Cognitive Delegation Focus: Orchestrating distributed cognitive systems while maintaining quality control over AI-augmented processes. We can still go for a jog or go hunt our own deer, but for reaching the stars we, the Apes do what Apes do best: Use tools to build on our cognitive abilities. AI is a tool. 3/3 #AI #Education #FutureOfEducation #AIinEducation #LLM #ChatGPT #Claude #EdAI #CriticalThinking #CognitiveScience #Metacognition #HigherOrderThinking #Reasoning #Vygotsky #Hutchins #Sweller #LearningScience #EducationalPsychology #SocialLearning #TechforGood #EticalAI #AILiteracy #PromptEngineering #AISkills #DigitalLiteracy #FutureSkills #LRM #AIResearch #AILimitations #SystemsThinking #AIEvaluation #MentalModels #LifelongLearning #AIEthics #HumanCenteredAI #DigitalTransformation #AIRegulation #ResponsibleAI #Philosophy
@n_dimension I agree, Wulfy - a lopsided approach doesn't explain the existing development of AI at all - thank you so much for your contribution and the educating link - much appreciated, Speaker-to-the-machines!
Susan Ville
Steve Davidian
homo hortus
skua
Wulfy—Speaker to the machines