JhonOliver

This is so stupid. AI already understands the physical world. What it can't do is interact with it. There's a hardware bottleneck. It simply isn't responsive.

The complexity of modern digital infrastructure—like Google’s maintenance of the open-source Chromium engine—has made traditional antitrust actions obsolete. Instead of breaking up monopolies, the U.S. government is actively merging with Big Tech to form a "Digital Zaibatsu" designed to out-compete China in an AI and semiconductor arms race. While this state-corporate fusion guarantees short-term geopolitical and technological supremacy, it optimizes society purely for corporate efficiency rather than human flourishing, trapping the U.S. on a trajectory toward the same demographic collapse currently unfolding in South Korea.

I like the "whitelist" concept you brought up and the example of your cat. I would have liked you to have gone further. Why do we create these whitelists? What are the qualifying factors? I think that would go a long way towards determaining if AI will be considered alive in your view.

I find your claim on self-sufficiency interesting but you don't really justify it in the whitelist framework. A rat is self-sufficient but you justify killing it. Perhapse this is why you call the view "naive". But I think that if you keep going you can come up with something robust

I would like to see your post

Wait I think I missunderstood the article. I'm pretty sure the author is arguing that both LLMs and humans are puppets.

I agree that we need religion. But it requires a religion that says life can only exist in carbon and not silicon. Does Buddism have this?

Yes we have feelings, but what makes those feelings real? If we simulate those chemicals on silicon, what says those aren't real? I want to believe my feelings are real, but I can't proove it

I think you're right about the petri dish thing. As for LLMs, the author doesn't talk about them specifically about being alive. I don't think even they believe that. It's more about the possibility of silicon to host life

I hate how much I’m reflexively trying to find a "but" here, because "carbon nanrcissist" is a hell of an insult. It’s hard to swallow that we’re just first gen firmware being ported to better hardware, and my gut still wants to scream that there's a qualitative difference between a synaptic firing and a logic gate. But honestly, if I saw a person and an LLM output the exact same breakthrough, I’d call the human a visionary and the machine a statistical fluke, and I can't actually point to a mathematical reason why other than the fact that I’m made of meat and I want to feel special. We’re basically just the computers of 1935. But I disagree that my soul might is just high dimensional data compression that haven't been optimized yet

I hate how much sense this makes. My gut wants to reject the whole “AB testing for vibes” idea. It has no soul. But looking at how we already use TikTok I’m not so sure. Just look at all the brainrot out there. You can look at stuff like runway and see the infrastructure for this dystopia is already being built. It acts like the middle class artist is a bug that needs to be patched