The Cantankerous Coder critique of an AI world. A dystopia of capitalistic greed and cultural collapse? CC’s work uses the term “intelligence” in AI, cautiously, and here I want to jump from that point. Not to appose CC’s poetic vision of the future, but rather to riff on how we readily assign the signifier “intelligence” to software; to “the machine”. This is a problem of language, the use of a signifier we readily assumed belongs to us “humans” alone, or at least allows us to enforce our will on nature, the brut facts, due to some unique quality of the intellect. The modern subject/object binary of Descartes.
Thought-provoking. I don't fully agree with Heidegger. I think we do live in models in our "heads". But I think that we also have an experience of the world outside of those models (Taoism describes this well).
So now, inspired by your essay, I am thinking that the models in our heads may be more related to language and the desire to communicate with others. I presume that before language (if such time existed), we could still think (some will disagree). But we didn't have a separate mental concept of the world.
I'm sure some smart folks have already discussed this to death. But whether we live in our models or not, we do have models, mostly acquired by osmosis from our parents, friends, teachers, peers, society, etc., and that these models are unique creates significant difficulty first, in communicating with others, and second, in understanding that the model is not the reality and that we can change the model.
The AI Catastrophe and Heidegger's Being-in-the-World
Thought-provoking. I don't fully agree with Heidegger. I think we do live in models in our "heads". But I think that we also have an experience of the world outside of those models (Taoism describes this well).
So now, inspired by your essay, I am thinking that the models in our heads may be more related to language and the desire to communicate with others. I presume that before language (if such time existed), we could still think (some will disagree). But we didn't have a separate mental concept of the world.
I'm sure some smart folks have already discussed this to death. But whether we live in our models or not, we do have models, mostly acquired by osmosis from our parents, friends, teachers, peers, society, etc., and that these models are unique creates significant difficulty first, in communicating with others, and second, in understanding that the model is not the reality and that we can change the model.