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Is it Ethical to Grant Legal Personality to Artificial General Intelligence? ethicspress.com/products/the-m…

@unusual_whales Second and third order effects seem not to have crossed their minds. People with no jobs can't pay back debt. Debt which, by the way, is repackaged into fancy products held by... pensions.

"Anywhere from $40 billion to $150 billion of leveraged loans packaged into US collateralized loan obligations could be disrupted by the AI boom," per JPMorgan

Integrity in the digital era means social media must reflect the user's real life: Very few followers, a ton of posts without meaningful engagement, and saying so much erroneous and outright stupid stuff to assuage doubts about AI-generated content.

@BigBrainPhiloso John is right.

John Searle on why relativism fails: "True premise, false conclusion. Reality doesn't exist relative to the thinker just because thought does."

“The tide is turning.” Please. Ecclesiastes 1:9. Sure, tides are always turning. The turn is always the same and it occurs in the exact same sea, though. Human nature is a life/death sentence. Planck got it.

@_Investinq People are just unable to see two or three steps ahead. Ok, juniors gone. When seniors, the ones pulling the trigger, retire or die… who will pull the trigger? No junior went through the growth process leading to the senior position—and in guilds like law, white hair is a must.

Andrew Yang just dropped a warning that every pre law student needs to hear. Law school applications are up 44% in two years. Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing economic uncertainty straight into a profession that AI is dismantling in real time. A law firm partner told @AndrewYang directly that AI is now doing the work of first through third year associates. A motion that used to take a junior associate a full week, AI delivers it in an hour. The partner said the AI version was better. Think about what that means for the person who just borrowed six figures to become that associate. You are being trained for a job that is being automated before you graduate. Law firms make money by billing clients for hours worked. The old model required armies of junior associates to justify those bills. Now one partner with an AI tool can replace what used to take an entire floor of people. Here is the part that nobody is saying out loud. First and second-year associates are not profit centers at law firms. They are cost centers meaning the firm absorbs losses training them for two years before they ever generate revenue. Why would any firm keep absorbing that cost when AI eliminates the need entirely? The answer is they won't. Law firm Clifford Chance already cut 10% of its London staff and cited AI adoption as the reason. Half of all law firms with 500-plus attorneys are already using AI in their workflows. The adoption doubled in a single year jumping from 14% to 26% of lawyers using AI tools, then to 53% of small firms a year later. And yet, applications to law school are at a 41-year high. People are running toward a burning building because it looks like the safest place on the street. Yang called it a "flight to safety." But structured, process-driven, document-heavy work is exactly what AI was built to devour. The people who will survive this are not the ones memorizing procedure. They are the ones who understand strategy, judgment, and client relationships , the parts AI still cannot replicate.

Humans anthropomorphize their creations for they are the mould, the dotted line bordering their capabilities. They project their traits onto code & dread an existence besieged by their own malice, a prison of unconscious math & tin coming alive in the prison of the human mind.

Before you do this, young startup entrepreneur, check first how costly and efficient is to close the company. Going in may be painless, but getting out?

Shakespeare’s entire body of work was AI generated.

@JOEBOTxyz Only if humanity manages to solve the problem of the pain caused during sauce production. Our Sauce Welfare Project is on it. Stay tuned!

@MonkeyInMachine Do I have cocktail sauce in this hypothetical future?

Jordan Schachtel appears to be a pay-to-play "influencer" who was exposed for conducting secretive social media ops. Watch him spill the beans below. LMFAO Now, this astroturfed meatbot has invented a fallacious narrative that I'm some sort of conduit for "effective altruism." You'll notice the evidence for this comes from a 2023 POLITICO article. (Remember when that mag was accused of being an ideological conduit for the Deep State because USAID bought a bunch of POLITICO Pro subscriptions? See how the association game works? Suckers.) Schachtel is so sloppy, he takes a Verge article that mentions my unpaid involvement with the Future of Life Institute, and then erroneously conflates FLI with Humans First. He then paints both orgs as "effective altruism," which is also erroneous. He might as well claim that all humans are tool-using featherless bipeds and therefore must be on some sinister Neo-Babylonian payroll. (Speaking of, who wrote your last check, Jordan?) Also, what's all this about "censorship"? Who is being censored here, exactly? The same tech companies who have censored Americans for years? Get it together, man. The reality is that Schachtel—a proven stochastic parrot—was signal-boosted by David Sacks, Marc Andreessen, and Elon Musk for a purpose. So, what are we to assume that purpose is? Clearly, these money-soaked techno-fetishists seek to guide the future of humanity toward some goal. My longtime readers and viewers know exactly what it is. Their shared goal is clearly explained in Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity (2023). I spell it out across 400 pages, with 100 pages of meticulous citation. I have also been consistent over nearly five years of coverage at the War Room. For the casual reader, I will summarize it here: These people want to see human life dominated by artificial intelligence. They want to fundamentally transform what it means to be human. And they have billions of dollars to fund this perverse vision. To my amusement, @DavidSacks, @pmarca, and @ElonMusk boosted a shady "influencer" with limited research skills as part of that effort. They should have picked a better mouthpiece. x.com/i/status/18321…

@PAHoyeck I longed for the day when French speakers would be annoyed to be called French. Today was a good day, thank you ♥️

I find it so perplexing how English speakers will call French-speakers "French" even when they aren't from France. Are Americans English because they speak English? Are Mexicans Spanish because they speak Spanish?

I'm genuinely worried about 0.07% of North Koreans of voting age :(

@EricRWeinstein This is the risk. Not loss of purpose but permanent infantilization x.com/monkeyinmachin…

Dignity & purpose, however, remain manditory. We can't wish away what is about to happen in the medium term. We have to *work* on it. A tiny number of AI HNWI may have to get even more fabulously wealthy at a SLIGHTLY reduced pace if we want to avoid *Revolutions*. Which I do.

@shauseth @BenjaminDEKR Awesome benefits, unlimited tax deductions, perfect work-life balance.

post-singularity career idea: become a hermit

@TrueAIHound Their time to bamboozle cash out of greedy dumb money is over, so now it's time to gain some luster as thinkers... and failing miserably from the get go.

"There is no inner self" ~ Marc Andreessen "You are just meat machines, people. You have no souls." Says the heartless creature. And he knows where you can get the "scientific demolition of introspection". What is it with these narcissistic fruitcakes, these fake philosophers, and their inner obsession with spreading their bullshit to as many people as possible? This is not normal. Are they even human? Dear Lord. 🤦‍♂️

@MrEwanMorrison He’s to my mute button like butter on toast: inseparable

@MonkeyInMachine We are sick of his voice

Here the Anthropic AI CEO goes yet again - playing the doomer apocalypse card to try to imply just how amazingly world-shatteringly powerful his dumb chatbot slop machine is. Must be time for another funding round. Change the record slop artist.

@MarkChangizi Decent people?

Need a name for those who are - not Woke Left - not Woke Right - anti-Islamist - aggressive to bullies - not anti-Semitic - not “I’m not anti-Jew I’m anti-[BS here]” - for free speech - for civil liberties - against “balancing” civil liberties - for free markets - for cost benefit analyses - for tight immigration - against isolationism - contemptuous of international law - against foreign dictatorships - “America First,” not “Israel Last” - love Iranians - “Free Iran” but not “Free Palestine” - appreciative that strength brings peace - want Cuba free Suggestions?

@bayer04_en You guys are going to get pummeled tonight.

No corners at all - if only it was like that everywhere in London 😄

@PAHoyeck In Popperian terms, all these are white swans except the Humean thinker :)