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'In the end, however, we must escape from the debris with whatever booty we can rescue, and recast our technics entirely in the light of an ecological ethics whose concept of "good" takes its point of departure from our concepts of diversity, wholeness, and a nature rendered selfconscious -- an ethics whose "evil" is rooted in homogeneity, hierarchy, and a society whose sensibilities have been deadened beyond resurrection.'
The Ecology of Freedom, Murray Bookchin
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Just picked up a book, through Interlibrary Loan.
Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence, by Dan McQuillan
The title should make it obvious why I want to read it.
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I've started reading Resisting AI. It's not a very long book, and quite clear and readable.
McQuillan links AI, that is, machine learning, to fascism, by describing fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism as an elite response to crisis. Palingentic ultranationalism is the fantasy of restoring an imaginary past national glory through purification, which is all too familiar for those of us in the US and UK, certainly. So AI systems are used to reinforce existing systems of bigotry.
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Trying to pretend today is just another day.
It is, mostly.
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I was looking at this philosophy paper again.
Frontiers | Naturalizing relevance realization: why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1362658/full
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It reinforces my belief that the idea that LLMs are a step towards AGI is nonsense.
The ability to recognize what is relevant is a precondition of agency.
Agency precedes consciousness.
Consciousness precedes language.
Consciousness does not emerge from language. You cannot have consciousness without agency.
A paramecium has agency and awareness that an entire data center cannot achieve with all its catastrophic waste of resources.
FoolishOwl@foolishowl@social.coop
I was looking at this philosophy paper again.
Frontiers | Naturalizing relevance realization: why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1362658/full
FoolishOwl@foolishowl@social.coop
This fellow was hanging around my door.
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I've been hesitant about running TTRPGs with a lot of combat mechanics. I'm not good at tactical thinking, so how would I manage arranging conflicts so it looks like the PCs are outmatched but can still win?
But then I remember that thanks to my own incompetence, I can be sure to lose even with a material advantage.
#TTRPG
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I love the stickers in southeast Portland.
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ICE Admits Collusion with Far-Right Blacklists to Target Pro-Palestinian Voices – AJP Action
https://ajpaction.org/ice-admits-collusion-with-far-right-blacklists-to-target-pro-palestinian-voices/
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Maybe a dumb question: so Robin Hood and friends were robbing tax collectors to give money back to the poor, but how did that work?
As I understand it, in pre-modern economies, particularly in medieval Europe, currency wasn't used much. And in general the idea with currency was that taxes had to be paid with coins to force peasants to sell food to armies who paid with coins.
So that would suggest that robbing tax collectors was more about disrupting power relations than easing poverty, per se.
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Is there a term for something like the opposite of a flow state?
Like, I'm trying to settle down to focus on developing an idea, and all my creativity evaporates, and eventually I'll feel like I just need to power through it, and I end up producing something dull and lifeless?
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