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I’m trying to apply Aristotle’s 'Four Causes' to a debate I had about AI, and I’m hitting a wall. Here is how I see it... When I use an AI, I am the Efficient Cause (the source of movement). I’m the ...
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Wittgenstein famously asserted that language meaning is, in most cases, just language use. The LLMs apparently show that he was mostly right. Is that really so and has this philosophical connection ...
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The question I'm asking is yes, Wittgenstein seems to have nailed the "use" argument, but the question remains, Who or what gives use its meaning? Nobody today uses language better than LLM'...
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In the near future I may take a course called "AI ethics". I know almost nothing about ethics (just Aristotle's 'Nichomachean Ethics' and Kant's second critique), however I wonder if AI ...
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Human emotions come from all these brain chemicals firing off, like a stream of data that drives how we act, think, and feel. With AI and brain science getting wild, we might be able to copy those ...
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Suppose that in the near future, artificial intelligence reaches a level of reasoning capability such that it consistently outperforms human beings in all domains of ethical analysis. It can ...
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I've read Penrose's Emperor's New Mind (ENM, 1989), and I am now half-way through Shadows of the Mind (SM, 1994). I read ENM in 2021, and I found his argument compelling in its generality and clarity ...
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If our brains are just complex neural networks, trained throughout our lives on borrowed information, why is using AI to generate text considered 'cheating' or fake? Aren't we all just sophisticated ...
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Suppose, there is an intelligent agent (such as AI), who has certain aims programmed in, trained or evolved for. This is not a technical question; we can assume that own source code is available to ...
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https://youtu.be/mofEOSUkMpA?t=373 Elon Musk is an advocate for free speech. Free speech includes the liberty to lie to each other with punishment reserved for actionable fraud claims and perjury. ...
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As a society, we already spend a lot of time and energy predicting what somebody will find enjoyable; programmers and psychologists have spent decades honing recommendation algorithms to predict what ...
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If I see that AI not only makes great pics but also reasons and proves points better than me, should I use it in online discussions as a "logic tool"? How different is it from just googling ...
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I have been contemplating a theory about the relationship between high levels of intelligence and existential crises. I've often heard that highly intelligent individuals are more prone to realizing ...
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This question has been boggling my mind for quite some time now. As we see the clear rise of artistic content made by AI, we also see people consuming the artificial content. There was this post in ...
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Could large language models (LLM / "AI") be improved (made more human-like in their behaviour) by adding virtual needs? Is it right to assume, that social interaction has evolved by learning ...
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