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You know the Drake equation that estimates how many alien civilizations should be out there?
My boy Drake forgot to factor in how all civilizations crumble to dust because a majority of beings get chatbot psychosis and eventually nothing works anymore and everyone dies.

“It is our responsibility as citizens of this nation to say unambiguously that what Trump is now threatening is truly evil…our responsibility as human beings to demand…Trump repudiate this threat to other human beings. It is our responsibility to call on all other Americans, in whatever capacity, to stand up against this despotic act of pure immorality.
Write. Phone. Shout. March. Trump has moved beyond indecency into the realm of insanity. This must be stopped.”

Trump threatens a “whole civilization will die tonight."
This brings America into a new immoral universe

In my experience interacting with them, CEOs are all over the map as human beings — some incredible jerks, some surprisingly decent, a few truly marvelous people — but on the whole, and increasingly so as the company gets larger, they are some of the most fear-driven people I’ve ever met in my life.

Can you imagine meeting someone who is all in on AI?
How embarrassing…
I want to meet people who are all in on their fellow human beings.

This interview with Philipp Ball hones in on the most interesting point of his book How Life Works.
Biological beings are not a kind of machine. Cells would not work if they were made out of tightly coupled cogs like in a mechanical living robot thing. Life on the molecular level is extremely fuzzy and things have multiple purposes all at once. I find that super hard to understand and yet infinitely interesting.
Beings are neither code nor machine but its own thing.

A common argument from AI stans is basically mysticism: “we don’t really know how it works therefore it must be alive and have a soul”.
Dude, first of all we know how it works, human beings created every step of LLMs, and the didn’t imbue it with life like a golem, it’s just applied statistics.
Secondly just because you personally find it mysterious and unknowable doesn’t mean it’s magic.