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AI, or, Shifty Epistemics and Shaky Ontologies

Fictional girlfriends and the suss dudes who made them possible

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Alex Olshonsky
Jul 07, 2023
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Book Cover, Leviathan, by deontological political theorist Thomas Hobbes, 1651

It is an irony too fitting that the first thing we did with AI imagining technology capable of replicating the Great Works of the Ages was to create sexy self-portraits. This was particularly prominent in the New Age space, where just about every person who maintains an online…

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