My thanks to @TomGrosfeld for putting me and my
#NihilismAndTechnology book in the same sentence as Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man...
https://www.vn.nl/eendimensionale-mens-marcuse/
Hoe we van de grote dromen van Marcuse over vrijheid iets kunnen waarmaken
Herbert Marcuse stelt dat de mens in de jaren 60 eendimensionaal is geworden. Tom Grosfeld legt Marcuses moderne mens naast die van nu.
Just learned that the YouTube channel Wisecrack did an episode all about my Nihilism book last week...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgD-2z6eUYA&ab_channel=Wisecrack
Nihilism: Are We Missing the Point?
I have yet to see a good answer to the question: "What is the problem for which ChatGPT is the solution?"
New article by me on
#ChatGPT and loneliness for @IAI_TV in advance of my discussion of such topics at the upcoming @HTLGIFestival...
#NihilismAndTechnologyhttps://iai.tv/articles/chatgpt-the-route-to-loneliness-nolen-gertz-auid-2423?_auid=2020 ChatGPT: the route to loneliness? | Nolen Gertz
From ChatGPT to Replika, AI is being touted as a tool to solve the loneliness epidemic. But is this just a false marketing promise, or perhaps something more sinister. In these habitually lonely times wanting someone to talk to, even if they’re just an AI chat bot, is understandable. But besides the emptiness of a conversation with an AI, author of Nihilism and Technology, Nolen Gertz, argues that even the most optimistic story of connection could lead to danger.
Foucault on ChatGPT, or on the difference between trying to "say the non-said" and wanting to "collect the already-said" in Plato's Phaedrus...
Was just on a panel to discuss ChatGPT with the surprise guest panelist: ChatGPT. Seemed quite telling that while people on the panel and in the audience were talking up all the great things ChatGPT could do in theory, in reality it became so annoying and time consuming that we stopped using it as a "panelist" altogether...
Just discovered that video of the debate on technological progress I participated in with
@jesswade, Kenneth Cukier, and Caitjan Ganty, at the How the Lights Get In Festival is now available online...
https://iai.tv/video/the-dream-of-progress
The dream of progress
From work to entertainment, communication to travel, technology has shaped every aspect of our lives. We think technological progress is relentless and inevitable. But Aldous Huxley argued
