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We don’t know whether it makes sense to talk about particles of experience (which some people call “qualia”).
Acknowledging that experience exists might make us kinder, since we understand people to be more than machines. We might be a little more likely to think before hurting someone if we believe there’s a whole other center of experience cloaked in that person, a whole universe, a soul.
The BUMMER business is interwoven with a new religion that grants empathy to computer programs—calling them AI programs—as a way to avoid noticing that it is degrading the dignity, stature, and rights of real humans.
Consciousness is the only thing that isn’t weakened if it’s an illusion. You’d have to experience the illusion in order for the illusion to exist. But the flip side of that is that if you choose not to notice that you’re experiencing, you can negate your own consciousness.
If you design a society to suppress belief in consciousness and experience—to reject any exceptional nature to personhood—then maybe people can become like machines.
Whatever a person might be, if you want to be one, delete your accounts.
Sherry Turkle
Cathy O’Neil
Don’t reject the internet; embrace it!
Subscribe to great news sites!
You’ll be amazed to discover how much of your time was taken up before by BUMMER schemes.
Don’t tweet about how you quit Facebook or post to Facebook about how you quit Twitter.
You can’t use the internet well until you’ve
confronted it on your own terms, at least for a while.
the combination of mass addiction with network-effect lock is formidable.
You need to make sure your own brain, and your own life, isn’t in a rut.
