In the two years following the horrors committed by the Islamist terrorists, Hamas, upon Israel October 7, 2023, Western sympathizers have somehow put themselves in the position of supporting a brutal barbaric regime rather than an oasis of democratic ideals and hope.
As to human-created authenticity, it may well be that CHAT GBT devices will never (never?) be capable of original new material because they are not truly intelligent, merely regurgitation machines. But don’t count on it. And anyway, readers may not care.
People are not uniformly apprehensive, one way or another, of AI. In fact, we might even hazard that there is an array of attitudes people hold, from committed positive belief to abject terror.
René Descartes in his treatise on dualism was examining the larger concept of reality/existence, but did he really think thinking was the equivalent of consciousness? (Would he say the same thing of computers?)
Gamification in video games is not unlike gambling: the thrill of a ‘win’, the gradual habituation of the dopamine hit, the constant enticements for ‘just one more round’.
Human beings are tribal. They are hard-wired to value sameness, not otherness. Tribes fashion cultural habits and artifacts to emphasize their belonging (and in consequence differentiate themselves from the others). These differences took generations upon generations to build; they are not easily extinguished or assimilated. Nor should be.
For months and months I have watched in dismay these pro-Palestinian demonstrations on continuous display through our various news media and on-line sources. To me it beggared belief that so many people, and many of those rooted in traditional western values, could so naively misjudge the true objectives of the Hamas terrorists over the legitimate aims of Zionism.
Canadians can have an opinion about the complex issues that are the Middle East, and more particularly the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, but to justify, not to mention celebrate, the terrorist acts of Hamas (or Hezbollah for that matter) is ethically, morally and even intellectually wrong.
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