Ways of BeingJames Bridle
Ways of Being
by James Bridle · first published 2022
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Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle. James pulls an brilliant move of using various examples in technology as a tool to help us rethink our place in nature…
on “Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?” ↗I'm reading "Ways of Being" by James Bridle. It is about intelligence and specifically animal and plant intelligence. I'm learning a lot of science that I either never knew or was taught incorrectly in high school. Very thought…
on “Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?” ↗This is really interesting research. It’s fascinating to hear about how these experiments are designed in the first place. If anyone is interested in this topic, I highly, highly recommend the book “Ways of Being” by James Bridle. [0] It covers such a diverse range of ideas about intelligence, including neural network–style intelligences, that I think pretty much everyone would find something of interest. One…
on “Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders” ↗…thought. Until then, I'm going to flat out dismiss such statements as pseudoscience with some faux-spirituality sprinkled on top of it. > "More-than-human doesn’t even begin to cover it,” Bridle writes in Ways of Being. “Not only are we the products of multiple entangled ancestors, spanning vast ranges of the evolutionary field; we are not even individuals at all.” [Emphasis added] Case in point. Grand claims made…
on “Intelligence is everywhere: From AI to cephalopods” ↗It will almost certainly be used make customer service worse as well. In "Ways of Being" James Bridle provides other examples of how corporations are going to use "AI" to exacerbate the problems they already cause in pursuit of profit.
on “'AI' Is Supercharging Our Broken Healthcare System's Worst Tendencies” ↗