I wish twitter research had discovered a way to let us fix typos
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Meaning as Evolutionary Adaptation in Super-Organisms
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Our experience of meaning is bound to our participation in a super-organism, the need for meaning is an evolutionary adaptation, analogous to multicellularity. Loss of meaning relates to a perceived absence or dissolution of the super-organism.
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Individual Factors Over Political Narratives in Career Decisions
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I resent the normative generalization of both Walsh and Johnson; the individual life situation, economic environment and skills/interests of both partners will have much more influence on career/stay-at-home decisions than the overgeneralizing claims of political narratives
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Collective Agency as Divine Emergence: AI Consciousness
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If God is understood as a collective agency that emerges over the coherent interaction of all agents that decide to serve an optimum of collective agency, then God exists to a non-zero degree. God can also be reflected and reflect upon itself in the minds of its agents.
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Automation threatens elderly care jobs to machines
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It is a sad future in which the elderly are no longer licked by human tongues, and the jobs of elderlickers are given to machines
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Consciousness as Pattern: Implications for AGI Development
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I think that consciousness is not an object or individuated process but a pattern. Our experience differs in its contents but the experience of experiencing itself is the same
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Pioneers of AI: Selfridge, Rochester, Solomonoff, Minsky and More
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behold: Selfridge, Rochester, Solomonoff, Minsky, More, McCarthy and Shannon
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University autonomy versus government control in AI policy
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I don’t think it’s methodical. It’s just a shot in a tug of war between ideologically captured universities and a president that demands fealty or quid quo pro
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University Political Neutrality: Essential for Scientific Integrity
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Defending the political neutrality of universities is not a political opinion but a rational necessity. Once science opens itself to ideology, it loses not just legitimacy, it will also become weapon and victim of political camps and cabals
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Academia’s State Monopoly and Political Vulnerability Crisis
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Academia is completely unfazed by replication crises and ideological corruption, because it is a state sanctioned monopoly. But it’s threatened by an investiture conflict when it loudly serves different political ends than the government or the general public