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Ask AI For a Bad Take and a Good Take
If we were talking about humans, we would call this effect “priming.” And the principle applies in the same way in this case. Basically, the AI is trying to predict what a person would say next. In these cases, it is building on either a disjunction or a conjunction.
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Ask AI To Create and then Analyze Art: Death of a Lonely Astronaut
The key message to take from this piece is that no matter how far you go or how hard you try, the loneliness of your journey will always be with you.
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Ask AI: Explain the Carceral Archipelago and its Implications
When we talk about the broad historical sociopolitical and economic implications of the carceral archipelago and the prison industrial complex, and the implications for societies of today and the future, we are talking about the legacy of slavery and the legacy of the slave trade, which is a massive and central component of the history…
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Asking AI to Explain Interstitial Sociology
This post was written by an advanced artificial intelligence. The bold at the beginning is the prompt, and the rest was written by the AI. If you’d like to support this project, please buy me a coffee. When we look at the modern world through the lens of interstitial sociology, the key lessons are: When we…
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Asking AI: What is the purpose of life?
The purpose of life is the expansion of consciousness. If you are alive, there is something you feel that you want to express. The more you express it, the more alive you feel. Yet so few do so.
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Asking AI to Explain The Main Problems with American Democracy
The United States of America is not a real democracy because it is ruled by the rich. The Rich are not the same as the Wealthy. The Rich are those who control most of the money, power and resources in the country. They control Wall Street, Big Business and Big Government. They own most of…
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Asking AI to Analyze Memes: Post-Foucauldianism and Fisting
Is the practice of fist-fucking not the exemplary case of what Deleuze called the “expansion of a concept?” The fist is put to a new use; the notion of penetration is expanded into the combination of the hand with sexual penetration, into the exploration of the inside of a body. No wonder Foucault, Deleuze’s Other,…
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Asking AI to Analyze Memes: Universe 25
There are some interesting lessons to be learned from the Universe 25 experiment, but they have little to do with human beings and everything to do with rats. The most important lesson is that when you control for all outside influences, rats will do what they are genetically programmed to do. They are not capable…
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Asking AI to Analyze Memes: The Economy is Great, But For Who?
Economists like to focus on median income, rather than average income. Average income is just what most people make–it doesn’t tell you if they’re doing better than they used to, or if the economy is getting better for most people. Median income is the income that’s right in the middle of all incomes. If you…
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Asking AI About Micro-Sociology and Intersectional Privilege
Here are a few examples of the kinds of micro-sociological arguments the GPT-3 AI made when I prompted it with the problem of affluent able cisgender white males who happen to be gay (as shown)
