07 / November 2

Eliminative Materialism and Neurophilosophy

“If bitcoin marks the automation of intelligence, socio-semantic reason can only be seen as one possible intelligent system among many possible others rather than intelligence’s necessary and universal conditions.”
— Vincent Le

Topics

Patricia and Paul Churchland, Sellars, Chalmers; p-zombies, sentience, sapience, geist; Donald Hoffman’s Interface Theory of Perception and its discontents; Hegel, Brandom, Sellars, Negarestani, Land — socio-semantic v. machinic consistency in intelligent systems; hypocognition v. hypercognition; distraction, amplifiers and suppressors, attention capture, audience capture, addiction maximizers; Addiction by Design; ambient intel, elicitation, preloading, pretexting, human buffer overflow, microexpressions, persuasion, framing, manipulation; centaur v. reverse centaur; bossware; extractive data labor; the Mechanical Turk to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, chatfarms, labelfarms

Readings 3

The Interface Theory of Perception Donald Hoffman Spirit in the Crypt: Negarestani vs Land Vincent Le Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs Cory Doctorow

Additional Reading & Primary Documents 3

from Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas Natasha Dow Schüll from Eliminative Materialism Paul M. Churchland from Intelligence and Spirit Reza Negarestani

Lab

Multi-dimensional data, t-SNE, word clouds