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Fuck AI
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
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Socrates (470–399 BCE) — ethics, questioning, Socratic method
Plato (427–347 BCE) — forms, justice, ideal state
Aristotle (384–322 BCE) — logic, science, virtue ethics
Confucius (551–479 BCE) — ethics, family, social harmony
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) — political realism
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) — scientific method
René Descartes (1596–1650) — rationalism, “I think, therefore I am”
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) — social contract, Leviathan
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) — pantheism, ethics
John Locke (1632–1704) — empiricism, liberalism
Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) — monads, optimism
David Hume (1711–1776) — empiricism, skepticism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) — social contract, human freedom
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) — categorical imperative, critique of reason
Georg Hegel (1770–1831) — dialectics, history as progress
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) — pessimism, will to live
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) — utilitarianism, liberty
Karl Marx (1818–1883) — materialism, class struggle
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) — will to power, eternal recurrence
William James (1842–1910) — pragmatism, psychology
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) — language, logic
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) — being, existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) — existentialism, freedom
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) — feminism, existential ethics
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) — power, knowledge, institutions
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) — totalitarianism, political theory
Noam Chomsky (1928– ) — linguistics, political philosophy
Those are humans. A human is smart. Humanity is another story...
Ah. If you redefine "contain[ing] world-ending risks" to include "literally anything that someone blathers about" you can continue that line of blather forever.