I am way too online for my own good, and I had an unreasonably large twitter following, and I really *enjoyed* twitter for a lot of years, and yet leaving there and never looking back was maybe the easiest what-felt-like-a-big-ethical decision I've ever made.

I will not only be relieved but truly *ecstatic* to be wrong, if more and better studies soon start showing that AI actually improves learning and cognitive motivation. But so far they all show the opposite, and that is consistent with the evidence that I and other educators are seeing on the ground

„I suggest the get a new leader.“ Es klingt bei ihm alles immer wie eine Projektion.

Klimt's Portrait of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1905) closes his Golden Phase (roughly 1899–1909). Gold elements merge with geometric patterns and abstract motifs in the background, epitomizing his ornamental style.

It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.

It’s an honour to be confused with Simon, but I guess that Gemini was not trying to flatter me!

There is a rather wider minority for abolishing the Monarchy (about 1 in 5 to 1 in 4) than for the controversy of whether only white people can be English (1 in 10). It is weird the media classes are so rarely across how niche this 'controversy' is - about 1/4 Reform voters, but few others

I meant 'phenomenal consciousness' is a made up term, not 'consciousness'

A computer is a being, yes! I just use the word as the most general category for existing things. I myself think that a conscious being has to be in some sense ('pre-reflectively' maybe) aware of itself, in being aware of the world, but many will disagree with this

I agree there is no sharp line. But I don't think that our language dictates that valenced experience should be called sentience or phenomenal consciousness -- the first for me connotes consciousness of some kind, and the latter is a made up philosophers' term

Before the gold mosaics, Klimt mastered the "Glow." In Lady by the Fireplace (1898), domesticity becomes drama. By using the fire as a spotlight, he transforms a quiet interior into a moody, psychological stage.

And then all the other commentaries are linked from there, it's all OA

If on the other hand, you were a bot, then you wouldn't have a face, so it would be a bit more difficult

If I knew who you were, then maybe we could meet and we could look each other in the face :)

A being’s subjective perspective on reality and itself