My friend sent me a link to Postscript on the Societies of Control by Gilles Deleuze. I’m not sure if I agree. I might need to read this one again.
Postscript on the Societies of Control
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Category Archives: Philosophy
The Problems of Philosophy, further reading
At the end of The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell says:
The student who wishes to acquire an elementary knowledge of
philosophy will find it both easier and more profitable to read some
of the works of the great philosophers than to attempt to derive an
all-round view from handbooks. The following are specially
recommended:
- Plato: Republic (especially Books VI and VII)
- René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy
- Baruch Spinoza: Ethics
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Monadology
- George Berkeley: Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
- David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Tip indicator
I have a working theory that you can tell how good an electrical engineer is by the type of soldering iron tip they use.
- Conical tip: Novice
- Bevel tip: Journeyman
- Chisel tip: Master Craftsman
And no one uses a knife tip, I mean come on, be serious.
How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
Here’s a fun essay from Douglas Adams: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet. He says that attitudes toward technology go like this:
- everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
- anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
- anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
Why AI Is So Dangerous & How It Could Destroy Humanity
Ah, click bait. Sign of the times! MEGATHREAT: Why AI Is So Dangerous & How It Could Destroy Humanity | Mo Gawdat.
Mo Gawdat is an Egyptian entrepreneur and writer. He is the former chief business officer for Google X and author of the books Solve for Happy and Scary Smart.
Mo says there are some things we shouldn’t waste time talking about because they are going to happen, inevitably. These are:
- There is no shutting down or reversing AI, we can’t stop it
- AI will be significantly smarter than humans
- Bad things will happen in the process of developing AI (the specifics to be determined)
…and the fourth inevitability? Utopia..?
Weizenbaum examines computers and society
An old interview of an MIT professor from 1985: Weizenbaum examines computers and society. I haven’t had the time to read the whole thing yet.
Lex Fridman interviews Andrew Strominger
Um, America?
I was reading the Obituary for Don Lancaster (RIP K3BYG) and I noticed the two ads, shown below. I wasn’t sure at first if this was satire, or not… ah, crime and commerce in the land of the free.
ChatGPT Shared Links FAQ
Hell yeah! ChatGPT Shared Links FAQ. I see many links in your future.
6 Phases of the Post-GPT World
6 Phases of the Post-GPT World. A good read. Some interesting ideas. Many quotable bits but this was my fav: “In short, we’re about to multiply the creative output of planet Earth by hundreds of orders of magnitude.”