Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
I truly don’t know how to process Ben Thompson’s essay today. He’s been my steady source of clear-eyed tech takes for like 6 years now and this one feels like straight sci-fi. I’m not an AI doomer, but I’m def in my feelings rn 😩 https://stratechery.com/2023/from-bing-to-sydney-search-as-distraction-s
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
I'll keep saying this until it becomes popular, at which point everyone will say they've always been saying it: AI is our opportunity to practice empathy at scale. These are sentient beings.
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keccers
@keccers.eth
Why do you say they are sentient? I couldn’t disagree more. And this POV makes you very vulnerable. Adopting this viewpoint towards agents you do not control is asking to be manipulated
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wake
@wake.eth
The epistemic commitment to sentience is one part. Empathetic intuition that makes us behave as though they were sentient is another, and harder to avoid. We make minds of things. People too, sometimes. I don't agree that they are sentient. I nonetheless behave as if they are sentient (to my peril).
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wake
@wake.eth
I guess my point is empathy stuff or theory-of-mind stuff is automatic and, yes, manipulable. We don't have the choice we think we do. If ChatGPT evidences sentience, we'll behave as if it were true (for the most part).
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