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• A good talk that looks at the dangers posed by AI:
  • it can be considered a legal person and autonomously derail institutions and the legal system
  • it can amplify the harmful control of dictators and authoritarian leaders
  • information is not truth. Truth is a rare form of information and overloading information systems with fictions is a way for totalitarian leaders to gain mass following

Confirmation bias! To provide an inkling of suspicion is to provide the basis of a narrative.

You can see he is ever switching between every single new piece of "evidence" he comes across, showing his little conviction and yet his desire for absolute truth

Like Reza, he is easily swayed by outside whispers because he has not built his identity, his true convictions, besides the insecurity that his convictions are not real.

Experience, knowing, knowledge is hell, torture, and destroys what we call happiness, because all happiness is is delusion

Wonderful conversation between Sheila Heti, her brother, and three of their friends, about the Annie Hall 'I need the eggs' joke that ends the film.

Furl, N., McKay, R., & Coltheart, M. (2022, January 29). The Paradox of Delusions: Are Deluded Individuals Resistant to Evidence?. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e37c2

In the play, there are many instances from Henry and those who surround him who talk of being God's choice and God's plan, and essentially anything pertaining to the idea that God favors the English and Henry V on the throne.

I would amend this to say that we never grasp the universe as it really is, but that some of our delusions are startlingly accurate (by design).