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Slapped deep philosophy on a Shutterstock explosion, called it journalism

Slapped deep philosophy on a Shutterstock explosion, called it journalism

SLOP+ By wttp3

Someone took a generic stock image of lens flares and particle effects, slapped "iai news" on top, and paired it with a half-baked ontological statement that reads like it was generated by a philosophy chatbot having an existential crisis. The result is the digital equivalent of a college freshman d...

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Searle's Chinese Room but make it 'I understand AI better than AI researchers'

SLOP+ By Armond Boudreaux (via @wttp3)

Alright, since you asked: Imagine a room. Four walls, a floor, and a ceiling. No windows. There’s a slot in one of the walls. You’re inside the room, and your job is simple (if a bit laborious). Every day, people outside the room pass notes written in Chinese through the slot, and you respond to th...

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Searle's Chinese Room but make it 'I understand AI better than AI researchers'
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Ship of Theseus but make it AI lawyer discourse

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Ship of Theseus but make it AI lawyer discourse
guy explains social contract, accidentally invents tyranny, gets dunked on by own logic

guy explains social contract, accidentally invents tyranny, gets dunked on by own logic

Someone tries explaining contractualism from a philosophy book but immediately gets sidetracked by a Lake House movie plot involving Jude Law and a ghost, then pivots to a hypothetical about Uber drivers and fair rules, before concluding that their first instinct would be to make themselves exempt f...

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guy discovers descartes between mic tests, immediately regrets it

Someone doing a sound check that immediately spirals into an existential crisis about whether processes can actually stop, all while sounding vaguely concerned about the state of the world. It's like they discovered philosophy during a tech rehearsal and decided to share it with nobody in particular...

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guy discovers descartes between mic tests, immediately regrets it