07 / November 2
Eliminative Materialism and Neurophilosophy
“If bitcoin marks the automation of intelligence, socio-semantic reason can only be seen as one possible intelligent system among many possible others rather than intelligence's necessary and universal conditions”
— Vincent Lê
Topics
Patricia and Paul Churchland, Sellars, Chalmers, et al.; p-zombies, sentience, sapience, geist; Donald Hoffman's Interface Theory of Perception and its discontents; Hegel, Brandom, Sellars, Negarestani, Land, socio-semantic v. machinic consistency in intelligent systems; interpretability; Konrad Zuse's Rechnender Raum / Calculating Space to Nick Bostrom's Simulation Hypothesis; Addiction by Design: distraction, hypocognition, amplifiers and suppressors, attention capture, audience capture, addiction maximizers; machine gambling in Las Vegas; ambient intel, information gathering, communication modeling, elicitation, preloading, pretexting, human buffer overflow, microexpressions, persuasion, framing, manipulation, mitigation; centaurs, reverse centaurs, and bossware; bossware v. Para, Tuyal, et al.; reverse centaurs and extractive data labor; the Mechanical Turk to Amazon's Mechanical Turk, chatfarms, labelfarms, the gig economy
Readings 3
Additional Reading & Primary Documents 3
Lab
A word is worth a thousand numbers?
- Multi-dimensional data, t-SNE, word clouds, tokenization, embeddings, word2vec
- Psychology/biochemistry of memory and synaptic connections