Simon Paynton

Thanks, Reg 🙂

Time…..

Tree.
Two hundred years of standing.

Three-year-old
staring up,
motionless for a minute.

Neither knows
how long that minute is.

Only I do —
because I remember
when minutes mattered differently.

And yet that moment belongs
only to me.

Have a great week!

Simon…about the reply from the evangelical street hawker – He was confused  as to why I treated what he said as a subjective claim rather than an objective truth.  These people are very well versed in controlling the conversation. They can dodge the question or reply with a question and most people don’t realize this.

EG, if I say I don’t b…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!!

“Most of my friends are so well educated they can scarcely believe God exists.”

Theologian Lelio Sozzini in a letter to John Calvin on 14 May 1549 from Switzerland, commenting on the unusually high level of skepticism about God’s existence among educated men in Italy. It was an early encounter with what later historians see as the rise of s…[Read more]

Have a great week!!

“I must respect your beliefs?? Some chance of me doing that when I don’t even respect my own. I don’t believe things to feel safe. You don’t want your beliefs respected. You want them immunized for criticism. Once they are protected from scrutiny, beliefs will metastasize into ideology and when ideology remains unchall…[Read more]

Misinformation spread by adversaries and AI

Also, using AI to recognize it.
10-1/2 minutes, plus a one-minute self-promotion at the end:

The link works. I have a full NYT sub so can share 10 stories per month. I was on the phone with a friend in Zaporizhzhia a few nights ago. We had drones and gunfire for almost all of the call.

Reg dropped a link to an awesomely informative NYT article about AI advancement in drones supplied to or made by Ukraine. I got so immersed in it I lost track of time. Microsoft’s CoPilot gave me a summary of quotes from it. See it below the link. CoPilot also estimated a reading time of 20 minutes, but it felt more like an hour-long…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
From AI Welfare to AI Warfare. This is a great read.

Absolutely a great read! Written half like a mini-novel, and half like a documentary. I’m adding it to the AI Group…

From AI Welfare to AI Warfare. This is a great read.                                 .

[…] AI welfare is a legitimate domain of inquiry because we cannot rule out the possibility that AI systems may have—or may one day develop—consciousness. The authors describe this as “an open question,” but they then unbalance the scales by linking to a preprint by several philosophers—including world-renowned philosopher of conscious…

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Thanks, Reg!!