Dave RahardjaMar 14

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cslinuxboy/116225578585237555

This is not “normal”. Skilled and productive people falling heads over heels over a word predictor and thinking it’s sentient is not normal. This is not the kind of effects that normal automation tools do. This is WEIRD and NOT NORMAL.

Something strange is happening here. This “tool” is modifying well-adjusted human brains in a strange (and I think destructive) way, and we’re seeing it happen to some prominent person every week. How many people are being taken in that we don’t even hear about?

#ai

Show threadJohnMar 15

@drahardja

All COVID infections (even low symptom and asymptomatic) cause brain damage, resulting in reduced impulse control, reduced higher cognitive functioning, lower empathy scores, and worse short-term memory retention.

On average, every American has been infected 5 times. Each time causes more damage, cumulatively, because of the nature of SARS-CoV-2.

I'd be surprised if this phenomenon wasn't playing a role in these people being "abnormally" vulnerable to these averaging machines.

Show threadSzabó Em, Enigma He-Art Director Mar 15
@johnzajac @drahardja wouldn't lower empathy mean less likely to connect to an LLM?
Show threadJohnMar 15

@jadedtwin @drahardja

Is empathy what connects you to an obviously fake simulacrum of a human mind? Interesting take on empathy.

Show threadSzabó Em, Enigma He-Art Director 
@johnzajac @drahardja literally the definition of empathy tho?
Mar 15 at 4:09pmWeb