Many laughed when Saudis made Sophia a citizen. Of course it was a marketing plot but it changed everything: a mental barrier crumbled. Today, electronic personhood stands as a viable way to achieve accountability in the midst of the AGI arms race. I hope 🇪🇺 wakes up. This is it.

What if AI Safety and AI Opportunity aren’t incompatible?

@shishanyu My cat has low self esteem and it damages me too #CatPrivilege

@TOEwithCurt Yes, it was very interesting. Karl's a great mind, isn't it?

@LiveDigitalArt Atari. Nothing comes close.

@micsolana Wasn't Blade Runner a good start? It would pain many to see Blade Runner XIX--like Fast & Furious or Tor Story or the eternal Walking Dead--but what the heck.

@PettitFrontier That drinking beer while looking at the stars, after a night of paid horizontal action, is how humans get their kicks? Don't look at me. I didn't make the rules. I'm just a chimp.

@Hesamation The Japanese, again, for the win.

@Yoshua_Bengio Simple: Realpolitik. Westphalian sovereignty may sound outdated to some but it is the last line of defense against crushing, unaccountable global governance. International summits, organizations, and related occurrences, are performative at best.

Having lived close to one of their plants... sigh... even the French themselves know the resupply and maintenance systems are outdated, the processes are mismanaged, and the crews run around with WD-40 and duct tape.

@Aella_Girl

@DavidSacks

You may be afraid of AI—many are. Yes, the future looks bleak because we live in a madhouse run by its worst patients. But it's better to die free on your feet than live as a slave on your knees. Reject global governance at all costs. Local tyrannies can be defeated. Global ones?

If you're seized by the ephemeral murmur that the world teeters ever more upon the precipice of madness, take solace: you are no errant eccentric. The world is mad. Yet it has not descended further into delirium; it has ever been thus. The lunacy reveals itself instantaneously.

Coffee isn't for closers only ☕️ Would the world look different now if AI honchos and AI ethicists would have received at least a basic education in each other's fields during their formative years? Learning as you go is doable but tougher.

@2Philosophical_ There's enough space for everybody under the big, beautiful umbrella of philosophical debate.

@jamesbaratheon It’s the bedrock of every self respecting civilization.

@zerohedge Is that a euphemism?

@Noahpinion Wifi

@vanheel_timmy Sometimes depending on what’s cooking on the stove :)