THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (w/ Isabel Millar) 

Indeed! I think Isabel's work is incredibly unique. It is one of the most unique theses I have come across in this space, and can't wait to dive into her next work, which will be focused at the intersection of politics, suffering and enjoyment. That should be fire 🔥🔥

Absolutely, it was one of the many aspects of her thesis where I felt that she was conceptually innovating with psychoanalysis in such an interesting and engaged way.

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She is very impressive and very glad to see her in dialogue here (I learned about her thanks to Cadell). The thinking she brings to the topic is invaluable.

The live was also full of excellent thoughts thanks to you and Michelle!

@@PhilosophyPortal We had a blast! Again, a truly outstanding and amazing discussion.

Very important. I think lathouse/alethosphere can help us bring psychoanalysis into the digital age. Baudrillard helps too!

You are very welcome, thanks for your time-attention!

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What did you find out? :)

@@PhilosophyPortal Can only say I'm still pondering. Something one also can ponder is the function AI can have in relation to Girard. Can AI predict and personify the scapegoat giving mobs a constant supply of perfectly adapted scapegoats for them to crucify?

​@@conforzo adaptations of large language models like ChatGPT are already fooling the average ostrich-brained web user (and thus passing the Turing test in that regard).. it's definitely a fun thought experiment whether a future AGI will be able to fully embody and instrumentalize mimetic desire!

@fb_conforzo @deleuzionalbaudlacanian Yes, my thoughts are with y'all. We are in _such_ fetishistic times today. I half pity those who are placing such religious hopes in these systems, half despise them for being so insufferably gullible. Same story as the UAP/UFO hearing recently, such a disingenuous charade, looking to distract and to divide those with critical faculties and those without by jumping to such crackpot conclusions such as ET life-likely to duplicitously justify increases in the already shamefully overbloated "defense" (warmachine) budget. Like Zizek has said-we claim to be the most secular age in human history, yet we believe _more than ever_ today. That is something I agree with down into my bones. All the comorbidities of our age-the pressure of economic/ecological precarity, the disconnective/discombombulating dimension of digital/virtual life, the unrelenting fantasies of "angels" (scientism) which thru some magical hi-tech means will come down to save us from hell, the shameless hyperbolic claims of tech salesmen and marketers pumped out with psychoanalytic force in competitive advertising, the sheer weight of the death of God splitting our skulls, sending us careening into the arms of masters and gurus-seems we have really lost the thread of reason collectively. I seriously hope AI/ML/advanced tech can be harnessed to liberate humanity from this age of mass gaslighting and exploitation, but I am filled with massive pessimism as I discover many of my friends building idols in their hearts, placing their dreams into the salvation of big tech, imagining they will escape death thru some future miracle machine. Sorry for the screed, your comments speak to me so deeply tho my friends.

For those who don't understand this link, Dr. Millar opens her doctoral thesis with reference to Roko's Basilisk.

I would be _honored_ to be martyred by such a future AI overlord. It would be spectacularly demonstrating how ethically bankrupt it was. What a nightmare paradise that world would be..