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Noam Chomsky is fascinating to read if you're a 14 year old anarcho socialist like I was. His self-contradictory and confused opinions about the future highlight the fact that he's basically an ancient malcontent who's eked out his living trying to form an unsuccessful apparatus to do exactly what he claims to despise, i.e. lay out thought patterns for a group of followers who in his case never seem to materialize an…
"The concept that these AIs will take over the world is, with that absolute lack of human-like understanding of how the world works, impossible." Noam Chomsky
Hmm. Thinking not like a human would help it avoid and exploit the mental traps humans have. We might not even know they've taken over.
And what does Noam think a human does from the moment his eyes open and the amniotic fluid is drained from his ears? Humans gorge on hundreds of terabytes of data until they reach around puberty. Oh. But it's squishy chemical signals, not gold scratchings on glass. Oh well that's different.
Noam Chomsky is fascinating to read if you're a 14 year old anarcho socialist like I was. His self-contradictory and confused opinions about the future highlight the fact that he's basically an ancient malcontent who's eked out his living trying to form an unsuccessful apparatus to do exactly what he claims to despise, i.e. lay out thought patterns for a group of followers who in his case never seem to materialize an…
What generation of ChatGPT will generate ad hominem responses like this?
Noam Chomsky is fascinating to read if you're a 14 year old anarcho socialist like I was. His self-contradictory and confused opinions about the future highlight the fact that he's basically an ancient malcontent who's eked out his living trying to form an unsuccessful apparatus to do exactly what he claims to despise, i.e. lay out thought patterns for a group of followers who in his case never seem to materialize an…
And what does Noam think a human does from the moment his eyes open and the amniotic fluid is drained from his ears? Humans gorge on hundreds of terabytes of data until they reach around puberty. Oh. But it's squishy chemical signals, not gold scratchings on glass. Oh well that's different.
The False Promise of ChatGPT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35067619 - March 2023 (370 comments)
(Btw I don't think Chomsky wrote that op-ed. I'm sure it reflects his views, but there were two coauthors.)
And what does Noam think a human does from the moment his eyes open and the amniotic fluid is drained from his ears? Humans gorge on hundreds of terabytes of data until they reach around puberty. Oh. But it's squishy chemical signals, not gold scratchings on glass. Oh well that's different.
Noam Chomsky is fascinating to read if you're a 14 year old anarcho socialist like I was. His self-contradictory and confused opinions about the future highlight the fact that he's basically an ancient malcontent who's eked out his living trying to form an unsuccessful apparatus to do exactly what he claims to despise, i.e. lay out thought patterns for a group of followers who in his case never seem to materialize an…
"The concept that these AIs will take over the world is, with that absolute lack of human-like understanding of how the world works, impossible." Noam Chomsky