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Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence

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Re: Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence

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Post by zarathustreal »

tgv wrote: post #66
xarope wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a member of the ACM, so I would report this article. However, I think the author may just have made some mistakes and mixed up/-1'd their references, since the 2023 report is actually #2 2. Di Battista, A., Grayling, S., Hasselaar, E., Leopold, T., Li, R., Rayner, M. and Zahidi, S., 2023, November. Future of jobs report 2023. In World Economic Forum (pp. 978-2). Similarly, Footnote 7 probably should probably poin…

The Communications of the ACM no longer has an editor?

Suppose you've managed to get a job as an editor at Communications of the ACM. As "Editor, Communications of the ACM" what do you think your job is?

Re: Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence

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Post by IAmGraydon »

tkgally wrote: post #6
voidhorse wrote: post #2

I'm so torn about this article. On the one hand, it's great to see technologists engaging more with philosophy—arguably the technological landscape we currently have would h ave been much better if they had done so more deeply and more frequently. On the other hand, this is a pretty shallow article and does not, on my read, offer anything to anyone even vaguely familiar with technology and Nietzsche's philosophy. A m…

I hate to be the one to say this, but this article reads as though it was written by an LLM. The shallowness is one reason. Another is the lack of any individual voice that would suggest a human author. And there are the unsupported citations and references: The sentence “The World Economic Forum’s 2023 Future of Jobs report estimates 83 million jobs may be displaced globally, disproportionately affecting low- and mi…

It was written by an LLM because it’s another hype piece for AI.

Re: Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence

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Post by andai »

cgio wrote: post #63
tkgally wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate to be the one to say this, but this article reads as though it was written by an LLM. The shallowness is one reason. Another is the lack of any individual voice that would suggest a human author. And there are the unsupported citations and references: The sentence “The World Economic Forum’s 2023 Future of Jobs report estimates 83 million jobs may be displaced globally, disproportionately affecting low- and mi…

A positive outcome of LLMs. Regardless if the specific article is AI generated or not, we become increasingly intolerant of shallowness. While in the past we would engage with the token effort of the source, we now draw conclusions and avoid the engagement much faster. I am expecting the quality of real articles to improve to avoid the more sensitive reader filters.

I now notice myself cringe internally whenever I say anything that has become a ChatGPT-ism, even if it's something I always used to say.

Re: Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence

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Post by the-ads-did »

trinsic2 wrote: post #22
voidhorse wrote: post #2

I'm so torn about this article. On the one hand, it's great to see technologists engaging more with philosophy—arguably the technological landscape we currently have would h ave been much better if they had done so more deeply and more frequently. On the other hand, this is a pretty shallow article and does not, on my read, offer anything to anyone even vaguely familiar with technology and Nietzsche's philosophy. A m…

I didn't read anything about a connection between technology and philosophy. Its more about finding meaning in a world that has been over technologised.

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Re: Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence

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Post by amelius »

pfd1986 wrote: post #5
voidhorse wrote: post #2

I'm so torn about this article. On the one hand, it's great to see technologists engaging more with philosophy—arguably the technological landscape we currently have would h ave been much better if they had done so more deeply and more frequently. On the other hand, this is a pretty shallow article and does not, on my read, offer anything to anyone even vaguely familiar with technology and Nietzsche's philosophy. A m…

Thanks for the book recommendation. Adding the link here so it shows in the monthly book suggestion: https://a.co/d/iR7sxnU

And here is a review:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2018/10/30/book-rev...

Re: Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence

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Post by Libidinalecon »

voidhorse wrote: post #2

I'm so torn about this article. On the one hand, it's great to see technologists engaging more with philosophy—arguably the technological landscape we currently have would h ave been much better if they had done so more deeply and more frequently. On the other hand, this is a pretty shallow article and does not, on my read, offer anything to anyone even vaguely familiar with technology and Nietzsche's philosophy. A m…

It is almost like there is a book by Heidegger called "The Question Concerning Technology" that basically talks about all the things mentioned in the article.

Re: Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence

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Post by mox-1 »

TLDR of this article would be something like: "Nietzche's ideas were relevant at the time of the industrial revolution - AI poses similar risks to people's feelings of displacement and redundancy, so they are relevant here too". Would have loved to have heard a take on HOW they are relevant.
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