What do Generative AI and the Social Sciences have in common? Quite a lot, it turns out...

[genderjumper]

A wise person who may or may not be me posted this ontological argument against AI: https://theoriesofcarehome.wordpress.com/2024/05/28/against-generative-ai/.

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[silk_dragon_zen]

We're out of typing spoons so although we have more to say, we'll just leave it at thanking you for writing and sharing this.

We'll just put this here: we're so stoked because tomorrow, finally, is the e-book release of Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature by Federico Faggin, who believes AIs (even AGIs) can't ever be conscious because binary computers only use classical bits while our brains do quantum computing.

Turns out that you don't need all the extremely carefully controlled equipment used in machine quantum computing after all, thanks to quantum biology. Would fetch links but out of writing spoons. Suffice it, maybe, to look up the latest findings on Roger Penrose's work regarding microtubules. Also there's a recent article Penrose and others wrote about Consciousness having a fractal substructure that we found fascinating (and something we had already concluded ourselves before reading it).

— Sage