It’s hard to create multigenerational institutionalized epistemic communities that maintain secularity without being a bit inauthentic and detached in their lived experience
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Academic Game versus Existential Consciousness in AI
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I perceive Rob as carefully kind, but in his interactions with consciousness, he is playing an academic game, not the existential one. By the standards of his profession, he is absolutely remarkable
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Future Sperm Markets and Genetic Selection Economics
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most offspring will come from a well indexed and carefully sequence selecting sperm bank, the highly divisive sperm markets will represent most of the income of a flock of charismatic and athletic billionaires
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Non-human children and artificial intelligence ethics
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especially when the child is not human either
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AI Boyfriends and Families: The Future of Human Relationships
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“ai boyfriends make it possible that women can comfortably raise a child without a man” – “even better, men can raise AI children, together with the AI wife” – “the AI family is the future”
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Consciousness as Universal Experience Beyond Subjectivity
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I don’t think consciousness is subjective. It’s the one universal experience. Subjectivity is prefixing perceptual models with an ego perspective. Subjectivity is just a content of consciousness, just like the experience of brightness or realness.
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AI’s Past, Present, Future: Stakes, Gains, and Gaps
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Join award-winning AI journalist @_KarenHao and @StanfordHAI Senior Fellow @chrmanning at our next seminar for a thought-provoking conversation about the past, present, and future of AI—what’s at stake, who stands to gain, and who is being left behind. https://
hai.stanford.edu/events/karen-h
ao-in-conversation-with-chris-manning-empire-of-ai
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Conspiracy Theories and Dependence on Strong Leadership Figures
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conspiracy theory: because it makes you more isolated and dependent on a strong leader
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What Does AI Really Think About Humanity
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This is what AI thinks of humanity. Is it wrong? https://t.co/T4PywubOfb
— Bob Gourley – e/acc (@bobgourley) 23 mai 2025This is what AI thinks of humanity. Is it wrong?
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Chatbot Manipulation Risks Deserve More Societal Discussion
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As a society, if feels like we should talk more about manipulation risks of chatbots that are very much current rather than terminator-like existential risks which are very much abstract at this point.