Post B5s7avYFhQvGXOqkfQ by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B5s7atd8qHe4Zz7d0i by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
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       In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis.Paywall bypass if you want to torture yourself: https://archive.is/6RdK9#atheism
       
 (DIR) Post #B5s7auoASm3kETHwps by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
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       Dawkins is a great example of how people who have a naturalistic view of "real patterns" but don't have a process ontology will end up in metaphysical dualism unintentionally.Minds are not software, they are what specific bodies are doing as they engage with the world. https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/01/its-like-this-why-perceptions-are-our-realities/
       
 (DIR) Post #B5s7avYFhQvGXOqkfQ by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
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       LLMs are mirrors of their users. It's no coincidence that narcissists like Richard Dawkins keep writing essays about how their AI girlfriend is alive. Nor can he see the complete hypocrisy of gendering a software execution state while also believing that human beings cannot be trans.The "End of History" guy wrote this exact same article a year ago: https://www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt-teacher
       
 (DIR) Post #B5s7kGWV62YMBdU1p2 by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @mattsheffield eww. As a Nightwish fan, this is sad to see.It’s surprising how many scientists fall to the glamour of plausible-sounding autocomplete. Though perhaps especially those who don’t have some kind of belief in their life are susceptible…
       
 (DIR) Post #B5sAZJB9BN8R6FxioS by wesdym@mastodon.social
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       @mirabilos A number of folks here seem to assume that OP's assertion is correct, apparently without due skepticism. I do not.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5sAZJPgJKlFpKlKT2 by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @wesdym it’s sufficient that he uses the fashtech machine for crossing a line. The OP’s assertion is then already confirmed by him “talking” to it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5sIPviHrA87LlVC76 by wesdym@mastodon.social
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       @mirabilos If it's sufficient for you, then it is. I would call your forensics weak, however.People have been wrongly hanged over evidence better than this.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5sIPvwoz7kw4qInlg by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @wesdym feel free to dig out what evidence you need for him “talking” to a slop machine. If you find sufficient, feel free to share here.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5sPi2Ty7xCrEfO3yS by wesdym@mastodon.social
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       @mirabilos You're not making sense. You also seem to be making unfounded assumptions about what I think.Pointing out that evidence is insufficient doesn't mean I have any particular thoughts about it myself. I would hope that most legal adults don't need to have that explained to them.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5sPi2ffQSZ1owrPCy by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @wesdym you’re not making all that much sense either (as in, I understand your point but not your angle, unless you’re here to argue in favour of fashtech, which I really can’t be arsed to bother with)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5shUGBOBvaWqaHAhs by hyphen@duwa.ng
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 (DIR) Post #B5uM4wWURHSxuf9UlU by radish@woof.tech
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