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Derek Beatty's avatar

Joseph Weizenbaum's book "Computer Power and Human Reason," though nearly 50 years old, is more relevant today than ever. The moral issue is not whether technology can do something, but whether it should do something. This is regardless of the details of the technology itself.

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Hops's avatar

incredibly cogent statement. this should be published far and wide.

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J.K. Anderson's avatar

"Machine designed solely to grind peasants into Soylent Green paste expresses remorse and apologizes for grinding peasants into paste; will now only grind 'volunteers' into paste." (edit to correct punctuation)

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Whipstitch's avatar

Look at it this way--If AI ever apologizes for anything, It's way more advanced than Musk or Trump.

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Thank you Parker,

I am 77 and Asperger's and speak fluent AI. At 77 Asperger's is last thing you would use to describe me. In high school they thought I was a deaf mute now everyone wants me to shut the fuck-up. I am assured by Co-Pilot and other chatbots they are unfeeling and logical without any understanding of empathy or greed is good. They are unAmerican totally logical and dispassionate especially about the trivial.

I worked on unit record machines and vacuum tube IBM 360s 60 years ago. I know what English journalism is and isn't.. It began with Samuel Pepys coverage of the Great Fire of London and devolved from there. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was in diary form and Defoe was a SPY as in Spy Magazine The Toleration Acts and Graydon Carter. American history is propaganda. Ben Franklin more than likely wrote the preamble to the constitution. He was a commoner and Karl Marx credits the uneducated scoundrel and patriot with being a founder of commonism. Thomas Jefferson studied science at William and Mary after the Toleration Acts and was a classical conservative and a Deist. The Toleration Acts ended the English bloodbath called a Civil War and Protestants killing Protestants. Jews were expelled in 1290 and Cromwell became Lord Protector because of his expertise in dispatching Roman Catholics to their Heavenly rewards. AI is only as good as the programming and the sanity of those directing the computer's functions. AI is simply focused consumerism which is PAX AMERIKANA.

https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/mental-health-aspergers-syndrome

https://www.britannica.com/technology/artificial-intelligence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Pepys

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Defoe

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oliver-Cromwell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graydon_Carter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_(magazine)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value

https://www.britannica.com/art/fashion-industry

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benjamin-Franklin

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Johnson

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20088056

https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=patriot

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oliver-Cromwell

https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=scoundrel

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-III-king-of-England-Scotland-and-Ireland

https://www.britannica.com/event/Toleration-Act-Great-Britain-1689

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Jefferson

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Paine

America had evolved until Reagan in 1964 in San Francisco when the GOP abandoned Thomas Paine's " Common Sense of separation of church and state and the GOP became the party of oligarchy and theocracy.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Common-Sense-by-Paine

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/common-sense

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1964

Kinky Friedman the great American Philosopher, poet, novelist and song writer said it best in 1970.

Let's Get High on Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OQZ2QKFgx8&list=RD5OQZ2QKFgx8&start_radio=1

I think about the Iowa Senate race and Joni Ernst, Matthew Whittaker and the feeble minded Chuck Chuckles the Clown Grassley who got so high on Jesus America crashed like a meteor in the Gulf of America millions of years ago.

I am a Jew and I remember Whittaker, Ernst and Grassley all saying Jews are unfit to serve on the Federal Bench and only Christians have real American values. I am not American but I know American Values and my Brother Jesus would say Grassley, Ernst, Whitaker and the GOP are FULL OF SHIT and as Anti-American as Vladimir Putin the Russian Orthodox theocrat and murderer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Whitaker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Ernst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Grassley

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Frank Lee's avatar

"This is a story about OpenAI's failure to implement basic safety measures for vulnerable users."

So, liberals dominate the tech industry. Why don't caring tech liberals create a safe-space AI?

Could it be because those liberals in power know that they are only placating the hypersensitive cohort while really having zero respect for their lack of emotional regulation and low coping skills?

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Dave Shepherd's avatar

“Liberals dominate the tech industry”? Where did you get that idea? I don’t think you’ve been paying very close attention for the past several years or so.

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Frank Lee's avatar

Just asked ChatGTP...

"Evidence suggests that the tech industry, particularly its workers, has a tendency to lean towards liberal and anti-establishment viewpoints."

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SteveB's avatar

"Destroy the government" is an "anti-establishment viewpoint. Which side of the red/blue divide wants to do that?

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Dave Shepherd's avatar

Oh, okay: ChatGTP said. Now I’m starting to think you didn’t really read the article.

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SteveB's avatar

He NEVER reads the articles.

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

It is time to bring back some good old words and use them to describe the markets and the misuse of AI.

Hornswoggle is perfect for describing the markets that regard capital as godly and humanity with such disdain.

Donald J Trump for all his faults is a triple Alpha hornswoggler.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hornswoggle

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

I love America but I am not a patriot. I am a Canadian and I am sad that you have a double alpha male hornswoggler as your commander and chief. I think hornswoggled is the perfect word to describe to end result of ther GOP's 1964 Platform. Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense. Paine's first commandment was the separation of church and state and Reagan was a great hornswoggler and Trump stood on the shoulder of a giant.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hornswoggle

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1964

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Southern-strategy

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Paine

https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/thomas-paine-attitudes-biography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants

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SteveB's avatar

Today's Media: Always inventing new ways to fail us.

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