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If at first you don't succeed, reduce your expectations until you're a success




Culture is, above all, unity of artistic style in all the expressions of the life of a people. Much knowledge and learning is neither an essential means to culture nor a sign of it, and if needs be can get along very well with the opposite of culture, barbarism, which is lack of style or chaotic jumble of all styles. — Nietzche


The Macedonian Soldiery vs the Greek Culture










Forward from: Nadia
Here are two resources (one article and one paper), that are a good introduction to the problem of consciousness in AI (Moorad I think you had that question). It’s a hot topic and it involves all fields including philosophy.
The problem is that many AIs may simulate human consciousness very well, but if humans don’t understand how consciousness fully works then we can’t build it artificially (yet 😉)
Hope this helps!

https://www.cnet.com/science/biology/features/1-puzzling-reason-ai-may-never-compete-with-human-consciousness/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gee-Wah-Ng-2/publication/341048228_Strong_Artificial_Intelligence_and_Consciousness/links/5eb7b570a6fdcc1f1dcb32b1/Strong-Artificial-Intelligence-and-Consciousness.pdf


Forward from: Valera Notes
📚 A Note on Fundamental Literature

One paragraph in a classic book can be worth a hundred pages in a text written for a popular audience.

Consider the following excerpt by Nietzsche.

“What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other … you have the choice:

either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief … or as much displeasure as possible as the price for the growth of an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys that have rarely been relished yet?

If you decide for the former and desire to diminish and lower the level of human pain, you also have to diminish and lower the level of their capacity for joy.”

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Some wisdom is timeless. It is as true today as it was hundreds of years ago. It will also remain relevant for many centuries to come.

Accessing ideas of such density and insight is a backbone of Ivy League education.

@valeranotes


And let us not stray into the evil bypaths of our imagination.


Hell! Studies show that people have weak aversion to nuclear use. Furthermore, even the ones who strongly oppose to nuclear use do so because of the dangerous precedents that it might cause(other countries using nukes), not for the issues of morality.


the logic of appropriateness

action is often based more on identifying normatively appropriate behavior than on calculating the return expected from alternative choices.


If we cannot match such composure, if we are prone to burst into tears after only a few harsh words about our character or achievements, it maybe because the approval of others forms an essential part of our capacity to believe that we are right.


Neutrality is just following the crowd.


If we refrain from questioning he status quo, it is — aside from the weather and the size of the city — primarily because we associate what is popular with what is right.




They would have been confounded and
angered to be asked exactly why they sacriɹced cocks to Asclepius
or why men needed to kill to be virtuous. It would have appeared as
obtuse as wondering why spring followed winter or why ice was
cold.


We do not have criteria for "Morality"



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