Another crop of my madcap explorations of the Internet – from speculations on consciousness already found in artificial intelligence, to suspected cannibalism of a Rockefeller heir, and the reasons why internet politics is a (usually) waste of time. Or, to be exact, an act of intellectual masturbation.
Politics isn’t real. It is a surrogate activity. It is to world improvement what porn is to sex, video games is to achievement, McDonalds is to nutrition, fucking sluts is to intimate connection, and drugs abuse is to happiness. It’s artificial, vacuous, simulacra that makes you feel like you’re doing something useful but ultimately leaves you unhappy, empty, and diseased.
The language is intentionally hyperbolic, but there’s a lot of truth in it.
- OpenAI Chief Scientist Says Advanced AI May Already Be Conscious
Very skeptical given the inefficiency in engineered forms of data processing as compared to biological processing – something which I’ll like to discuss at some other point when I go over the excellent Ascent of Information. But amusing as a thought. Not much solid information providd, alas.
- How the Cannibals From New Guinea Ate the Heir to the Rockefeller’s Fortune
Not new or anything, but new to me. Amusingly gruesome. - Sympathy for the Wordcel
There’s an entire Twitterverse concept of Shape Rotaters versus Wordcels. It’s quite silly, and as someone who quite inevitably is probably more obsessed with words than anything else, I’m glad that there’s some sympathy for such. It’s a decent little article.
And if you needed to know what is was all about, it is explained best as all things are – in meme form.
- And a couple more twitter links – though I think that I’ll have to find a way to preserve it, in case that it gets somehow lost as accounts get deleted, etc:
This is a very insightful and worthy collection of links. As for backing them up, a simple method of copy/paste to Word would do the trick.
Keep at collecting them, they are a delight to read.