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The Deleuze Seminars ft. Professor Daniel W. Smith

🕑 Added 2022-06-11 14:12:55 +0000 UTC

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anacidcommie

Great stuff, had no idea about Kant's conception of desire there, and it's fascinating that he had already started seeing its essence as ultimately productive.

Gonzalo Pacheco Covili

Well, something more worrying is not if an AI system is sentient or not, but what does it do (or can do) and if others think is sentient... so, welcome, massive ai cults

James Foster Evans

Quality. The Deleuze seminars are amazing!

Gonzalo Pacheco Covili

Off topic, but what do you think of the news of ai getting concious? I mean, of course is bullshit, as the goal of the LaMDA and others bots is to fool the interlocutor and this is a very advanced bot (well, family of models or hive-mind) that was trained and tweaked to be consistent, factual and more "correct" (and pc). There's a paper from a Google Engineer, from 2021, criticizing this notiong of sentience (yet), but clearly he does not grasp the concept of embodied knowledge, as he's quoting from Varela, Thompson and Rosch ( https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/publication/downloads/Daedalus_Sp22_13_Aguera%20y%20Arcas.pdf ) But, I wanted to say, that the Machine Learning systems that are mainstream from 2012 onwards, specially after AlexNet, work not based on declarative programming, but are based on neural networks (CNNs, Deep Learning, etc) that are somewhat closer to what Dreyfuss called a more Heideggerian AI, although just too little, as the system doesn't care, is not invested in the world, even if it is optimizing a cost function. That's it, that's my comment/question. If I were more versed on the subject maybe I would say more, and maybe what I said is full of holes, but whatevs

Alex B

"Deleuze read concepts like characters in a novel" that's kind of how they feel in Pills' main youtube videos

Khemith

Cant wait to dig into those seminars.

Zack Klug

Banger

Plastic Pills

It's called "essays on deleuze", which was a selection of his articles from between 1994 and 2012.

Mark C

Pills - when he was discussing his book on Deleuze, which one was he referring to?

Will Thomas

Just yesterday I submitted my first ever piece of work on Deleuze and it is so encouraging to hear a professional Deleuze scholar talk about the fact he still has challenges I spent weeks researching the dogmatic image of thought and I had never been less sure of the quality of my work. Every time I thought I grasped the content I would see a new angle that fundamentally changed the whole direction of the work I think I am going to spend a long time with Deleuze in the coming years