[HN Gopher] Daniel Dennett: 'Why civilisation is more fragile th...
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       Daniel Dennett: 'Why civilisation is more fragile than we realised'
        
       Author : thruflo
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2024-04-22 18:20 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | The brain in a vat is a recent trope; for the Enlightenment
       | variation see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon
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       | [for multiplicity of social truths, see
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Grove (1922)]
        
       | jahewson wrote:
       | I'm far more concerned about the old dangers than the new ones.
        
       | ysofunny wrote:
       | the western monotheist (hence monarchical andor presidential)
       | systems are not civilization. sorry I must say this.
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       | why? in a modern state the powers are split in 3, I'm saying the
       | executive power is not all the power. recall there are the
       | judicial power and the legislature, those are parts of
       | civilization which do not rely nor in any way depend on the
       | monotheistic ideologies and frames of mind. leadership is not
       | representation.
        
       | naasking wrote:
       | Dennett was a great thinker. He's absolutely right that natural
       | selection of AI software over time will increase its potency and
       | danger. Every AI skeptic should read this article as it clearly
       | lays out one of the dangerous paths we're on.
        
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