Levi Checketts

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I’ve been saying for a while that AI is not inevitable, nor is it something we should just allow to happen. Proof that we need to stand up and that those in power don’t want us to

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This guy has never been on the Internet if he thinks the most virginal thing is a computer.

I watched The Running Man while sitting next to a 60 year-old Hong Kong woman who made occasional comments about Glenn Powell in Cantonese to me, and honestly, this is the only way to watch movies

This is like the 3rd “Dad goes outside the law to protect kid” movie I’ve seen this year, and the second that was ostensibly anti-capitalist (along with One Battle after Another) and also the second to star Josh Brolin (along with Weapons).
It’s a weird year to be a dad with a kid’s all I’m sayin

Did you imagine the dystopian future would look quite like this? Has a real “Gamer” with “Sorry to Bother You” feel.

One of the things that boggles my mind about the current administration is how amazingly nihilistic it is. Fascism typically is willing to kill its citizens for some nationalistic goal of supremacy. But what we have in the US is self destruction for its own sake.

I can’t imagine why they would do that for a futuristic society where each contributes according to his ability and only receives according to his need.

I probably should look up the plot, but seeing Orion Welles surrounded by women makes me think this is just some exploitation project the senior Welles chose when he stopped caring what critics think. Same energy as the Peeps ad

A movie that takes place where you’re from.

(I was surprised to discover this, btw)

Some personal news: I won an outstanding teaching award for my faculty!

I mean, they kinda are in possession of a list of pedophiles who worked with Epstein, it’s just that the information is not organized or presented that way.

The guy who gave HK its cinematic prowess for the latter half of the 20th century because no Hollywood project would give him a lead role, even for the show he created.

Why they don’t care about getting all women to believe in God?🤔

I’m going to have to listen to the whole thing to see how much of this description is just clickbait, but absolutely not, the #unconscious is nothing like an #LLM.
#Lacan even presciently addressed problems of AI in his second seminar when he noted cybernetics lacks an imaginary.

Recently read Marcuse’s reflection on Weber’s thought and he notes the “rationality” of capitalism at some point has to serve irrationality.
Knowing how the disease will spread=rationality. Using this to plan for labor shortage instead of worker protection=irrationality.

You gotta meet the gematria freaks who like to put the Jesuits, Freemasons and Cabala together.

Matty seems like the kind of guy who’s angry because his wife used mayonnaise instead of miracle whip in his bologna and American cheese on Wonder bread sandwich.

When I wrote “Poor Machines,” I worried that my claim that AI could lead to a revival of eugenics would be seen as just anti-tech moral panic.
I see I was only wrong on how long I expected it to take.

In the Catholic Tradition, sin is always rooted in intention. In an analogous way we talk about “original” and “social” sins mostly because they break our relation to God/neighbors. Evil then is merely the absence of good, and isn’t inherently tied to sin

I disagree. One thing that makes fascism so terrifying is it usually knows how to play optics. Like the big Nuremberg rallies or the Fascist headquarters in Rome.
This is Dollar Tree fascism.

This is, without a hint of exaggeration, one of the genuinely most satanic things I’ve ever seen.

Canadian football - Wikipedia

Why betray Canada’s own football tradition to favor European supremacy?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia...

I’m old enough to remember when they did this a decade ago to Millennials. The idea is generally to make older generations unsympathetic to the problems facing younger generations. Because if we have solidarity, we could actually change things.

I mean, on Halloween, we can’t downplay John Carpenter!

Never thought I’d see the day when right wing Christians accuse Evangelicals of being too ecumenical to be true Christians.
At least according to this protestor, I’m in the right place as a Catholic! I was worried I’d stand out!

It’s a weird experience, mostly precipitated by the confluence of my location in #HongKong, work in Christian approaches to #AI, and the realization of Christian groups that AI is a big problem, but I’m probably the most ecumenical AI ethics researcher in the world right now.

In the last 3 months, I’ve consulted for the #WCC NIFEA statement on AI in Pocheon, South Korea, spoke to the Catholic #NHNAI conference at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan, consulted on the #CCA communique on AI in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, and am on my way to #WEAGA in Seoul to again talk about AI

You’re not wrong. When the WCC put together their response to AI, one of the major issues identified explicitly was “empire.” I’m not expecting this as a major topic at WEA.

www.oikoumene.org/resources/do...

So, it should probably be no surprise that the app for the general assembly looks like this, complete with a Leaderboard so you can measure how well you’re engaging with the app compared to your fellow attendees!
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