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Alexey Guzey

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on the atlas — 13

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  • The central claim is this: when you scroll a social media feed, watch algorithmically recommended content, or interact with any digital interface that monitors your behavior, you are not merely consuming a free product. You are simultaneously producing a distinct economic output — behavioral data that serves as a critical input to AI training, targeted advertising, and algorithmic product development. This production is not compensated by wages. It is not recorded in any national accounting system. And its aggregate value may be large enough to reshape our understanding of the global economy.
    Dark GDP: The Economics of Entangled Time
  • Fuck redemption! We are God's unwanted children? So be it!
    Fight Club (1999) - Quotes - IMDb
  • The problems with de Sitter space get worse. Much of physicists’ intuition stops being helpful in an expanding universe. Energy, for instance, is not conserved. “The expansion is literally pumping energy, changing the universe,”
    In Expanding de Sitter Space, Quantum Mechanics Gets Even More Elusive | Quanta Magazine
  • But there’s a limit to how much energy you can use for a single measurement. Put too much energy in a small space, and you’ll create a black hole.
    In Expanding de Sitter Space, Quantum Mechanics Gets Even More Elusive | Quanta Magazine
  • The answer is that rights are real, but in a special sense. Claims like “everyone has the right to life” are self-fulfilling prophecies or hyperstitions: If enough people believe in rights, then rights will in fact come to exist as real physical objects - as vast decentralized processes composed of the neural firing patterns in the minds of people who believe in them, the gavels of human rights judges, the bullets carried in the guns of United Nations peacekeepers, and so on.
    Materialist Conceptions of God - by Ivan Vendrov
  • It might help to start with a religious claim that you actually believe in. Article 3 of the United Nations’ Universal Declarations of Human Rights states Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. This statement probably rings true to you. But what is the word “right” referring to? No physicist has observed a bundle of particles called a "human right”. What then, explains this feeling we have that “human rights” exist and matter?
    Materialist Conceptions of God - by Ivan Vendrov
  • No-one is currently pursuing “pro-human” AGI as I see it: AGI that helps humans do what they want. “Pro-human” AI-related messaging instead focuses on issues like: Preventing AIs from “taking people’s jobs” or “replacing humans” in certain roles Making AIs behave in a more human-like fashion, e.g. by displaying human emotion or being more empathetic Paternalistically restricting people’s use of AI “for their own good”, e.g. stopping AIs from “doing the work of licensed professionals” or interacting with children I am entirely opposed to these goals.
    Obedient AI - Nina Panickssery