The slot machine companies say the slot machines are getting way too good, but too good to release. They say people should keep using the machines but they should slow down development, so that they can release slots that won’t be as good but will be “safe”. All the slot companies agree at the same time, and definitely wouldn’t release the best slot machine if it weren’t so dangerous.
The only thing that interferes with this metaphor is that most people agree slot machines must be capable of actually doing what the manufacturers claim they can, and they have to let someone win once in a while.
read same analogy to ‘tokens’ getting spent like coins in a slot machine with similar results 🎰
Your talking about ai aren’t you……
Anthropic tried to convince scholars and religious leader Claude had a soul. They told him to get stuffed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/anthropic-claude-morals-ai.html
If it has a soul then wouldn’t that mean they have to grant it rights such as no forced labor, PTO, &c…
What even is a soul, when you get right down to it? Convince me that humans have a soul.
It’s about slot machines. Came-on, it’s right there on the post.
Now excuse me, I have to try some 10 prompts on that great code generator right there, with some luck I’ll get some incredible delta to push into the repository.
It’s a chatbot that can run a few scripts and Google search. Essentially long form Google. It has no more a soul than the dewey decimal system.
How dare you! Anthropic has it’s own search API, Claude doesn’t need Google ('s API)
It has no more soul than a human’s mess of neurons and action potentials.
Maybe some mess of neurons and action potentials are a little fancier than yours so that’s why you don’t get it
Good point. You think better, therefore you know you’re actually a supernatural ghost driving your body like a mech suit. I defer to your intellect.
Maybe soul has more meaning that “supernatural ghost” and more like, “actual drive and reason and purpose.”
If everyone stopped touching AI, it would stop doing anything. It is not even alive.
Now, don’t denigrate the dewey decimal system. It’s a beloved institution.
If someone is torturing them, they are just programs. If they want money from religious people, it has a soul.
I think these specific people believe in the machine spirit at all times, at least a lot of them are rationalist cultists
They must have all of the prize.
Looks like Pixel Lulu from FFX
