Time for a new #introduction on a new server. Hello, wandering.shop 💜
I'm Esther, a photographer, writer, artist, and psychology student in Berlin.
I work in analog photography, shooting on a Canon P, Yashica Mat 124G, or Rolleiflex SL66. But I also use digital equipment and other media like linocut prints and leather.
It's a famous trope that tech oligarchs think they could totally have done a physics degree, but then they confirm it by showing e.g. how they don't understand that producing electrical energy isn't "making new electrons", which is something I learned around 7th or 8th grade physics class.
Does Sam Altman also think a water faucet creates new water? Or that wind is the creation of new air?
With all my aversion to generative “AI”, this might surprise some, but I do believe that real artificial intelligence is eventually going to be a thing.
But I don’t think it’s anywhere close, nor that the current hype tech is the way there.
Also: it’ll be horrible, for the artificial people.
If there is no immaterial component to a person, no soul or whatever, then a person is the result of a material state, and can therefore be built, somehow.
And if there is, I think it’s just human hubris to believe that only our fleshy selves are capable of having one.
With all my aversion to generative “AI”, this might surprise some, but I do believe that real artificial intelligence is eventually going to be a thing.
But I don’t think it’s anywhere close, nor that the current hype tech is the way there.
Also: it’ll be horrible, for the artificial people.
Often, local antifa manages to get together a group at the destination train station to discourage any attacks or defend against them. But they can’t be everywhere and attacks can still happen once the travelers disperse throughout the city on their way home and groups get smaller and smaller.
Last summer I was at CSD Leipzig and there was a group of nazis on the train back to Berlin with us, making very explicit threats and starting physical attacks while still on the train.
Our group stayed together after arriving for safety and to decompress from it all.
Often, local antifa manages to get together a group at the destination train station to discourage any attacks or defend against them. But they can’t be everywhere and attacks can still happen once the travelers disperse throughout the city on their way home and groups get smaller and smaller.
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