The Human Fetish

Display of cranes, Peace Park, Hiroshima

• Funny 'cuz it's not funny: The Expanding Circle? (SMBC)
• More in-the-weeds philosophy: Total Utilitarianism: an unethical ethical theory. (Overmuser)

Someone explained to me that AI writing is bad because there is not a “human thought process” behind it. 

You mean like these things a human thought through and said, “Oh, yeah, that”:

• Nazism
• Longtermism
• Baby beauty pageants
• Stalinism
• MILF Manor
• Cable news panels
• The transatlantic slave trade
• Gender-reveal parties involving explosives
• The Great Leap Forward
• Mormonism's magic underwear
• The Khmer Rouge
• The Bachelor 
• Jim Crow
• Transubstantiation [added by the former alter boy]
• Keeping Up with the Kardashians
• The Cultural Revolution
• The Holocaust
• Neom [seriously!]
• Belgian rule in the Congo
• Fox News
• “Bill Gates is controlling us with vaccines”
• Apartheid
• The National Enquirer
• The Armenian genocide
• Crypto bros 
• “Total utility”
• The Rwandan genocide
• Maoist famine policy
• The Jerry Springer Show
• Chattel slavery
• Forced sterilization programs
• UK famine policy in India
• Billionaires going to space for fun
• The Apprentice
• Ethnic cleansing
• The gulag
• “We’re a family here” workplaces [!!]
• “Consciousness is quantum”
• The Inquisition
• NFTs
• Witch trials
• Imperial conquest
• Lynching
• Algorithmic outrage farming
• Cats, the movie
• Eugenics
• People filming concerts on iPads
• Human sacrifice

(Q came up with ~75% of those.) 

AIs hallucinate less than humans; we just call it “Belief,” “Faith,” “Total Utility,” or “Priors.”

The more I think about it, the more laughable it is that basically everyone has an unquestioned fetish with humanity. I welcome our robot overlords, and you should too.