That we have a sensory experience of the world and these experiences are encoded in some ways as "memories," just seems hugely consequential, and an enduringly meaningful distinction between humans and machines. I can send people back in time by saying "cinnamon rolls." That's unique.

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Fair. I don’t “know” if it can become conscious. I’m not convinced by the arguments and none of the speculations strike me as interesting or plausible. It’s a fine math and ethics problem…if we didn’t have an authoritarian government with unprecedented technical capacity for state violence

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I'm afraid the Doomer discourse has persisted for another week (UN "AI" briefing, etc) so in case you missed this when we first put it out earlier in this bananas news cycle, I'm reposting it: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social

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it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"

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My poetry workshop has 11 people and I would really like to tell them not to date each other and make it weird (we’re in week 5 and this is already brewing) … like y’all… please please please just wait till the end of the semester

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