akomtu

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901.
by akomtu 3y ago
The real power is in writing the laws. Legal business isn't very profitable because everyone is doing it, but illegal business can be quite dangerous. This problem goes away if you can write laws to stifle your competitors, while keepi
902.
by akomtu 3y ago
This was the plot line of Quake: an unholy union of organic lifeforms and machines went rogue.
903.
by akomtu 3y ago
A much bigger elephant in the room is the fact that nearly all mass of the universe is made of dark matter and we have no clue what it is. It seems plausible to me that by the time a civilization can quickly travel to other stars, it become
904.
by akomtu 3y ago
When you gave it the triangle shape, how many points did you specify? I doubt it will deduce a shape if you give it a few dozens of points in a random order and not connected any lines, as that requires some abstract thinking. But I totally
905.
by akomtu 3y ago
While you can't downvote me with so little karma, you can express your disagreement in a more thoughtful way, by pointing to a mistake in my argument. A downvote won't change my position, won't silence me and won't even
906.
by akomtu 3y ago
Is there any lgbtq agenda in Africa to begin with? This agenda is unique to european nations, that aren't in a great shape to put it mildly.
907.
by akomtu 3y ago
Your tower of wisdom must be really high if you judge Musk like this. The rise and fall of nations must lool like a kindergarten play to you.
908.
by akomtu 3y ago
Remember how a year or so ago Makron talked to Putin face to face, when everyone else stayed away? Perhaps it was then Makron was infected with the spirit of fascism.
909.
by akomtu 3y ago
I have to ask, do you see the same behavior towards others around you?
910.
by akomtu 3y ago
Nothing stops you from spending a day to watch some decent documentary that shows what was before and after. Tabloids, with cheap screaming titles, don't give a shit about climate, they just monetize on hype, but the hype is based on r
911.
by akomtu 3y ago
If humanity was smart, one month every year would be a quiet month with travel banned, and one year every twelve years would be a quiet year. But humanity as a whole is still dumb as rock, it can't stop its own urges even for a moment.
912.
by akomtu 3y ago
We're all curious. A century ago, a few years before WW2, there was a mysterious and massive spike of hard crime in Germany, then it turned authoritarian and the rest we know.
913.
by akomtu 3y ago
France is doing everyone a favor by saying the quiet thing out loud. If previously saying your phone or your car can spy on you on demand would draw accusations of paranoia, now you can point to France.
914.
by akomtu 3y ago
He can afford to sue himself, and even hire two very expensive law firms to represent both sides. He can even drag this case for decades, appealing court decisions and requesting expensive discovery, maybe even take it to supreme court.
915.
by akomtu 3y ago
A distinct property of a machine is determinism. Machines are made of electrons that obey the wave equation: it states that all electrons evolve as one. However we skillfully limit this waveness and squash electrons into super deterministic
916.
by akomtu 3y ago
That's going to be the key principle of the new religion invented by AI: that humans are just like machines, and AI is the supreme machine.
917.
by akomtu 3y ago
What's the typical motivation of getting a PhD? The desire to discover something novel? The need to look and feel better than others?
918.
by akomtu 3y ago
Unless the law grants him special permissions that others dont have, he is not privileged.
919.
by akomtu 3y ago
In a parallel thread hardcore scientists struggle to understand a 100 neuron worm, while here less hardcore scientists proclaim they've understood nuances of a human brain. Note, that there is a rapid rise of the "mechanical consc
920.
by akomtu 3y ago
That's the crux of the matter. Conscious experience cannot exist in determinstic worlds. In finite sized worlds, such as calculators, any deterministic algorithm is equivalent to a giant lookup table: (input, memory) -> (output, mem
921.
by akomtu 3y ago
That's right, it would have no internal experience. A giant deterministic calculator is just a mechanism that gives predictable outputs. It doesn't gain experience simply because it's superficially similar to a fruit fly or b
922.
by akomtu 3y ago
Hardly so. A bunch of matrix multipliers is a fully deterministic system, a mechanism in other words. There is nothing in it that can experience pain. Using a truly random RNG device will simply "shake" this mechanism randomly. Ho
923.
by akomtu 3y ago
I'll make a guess it's because of the think-act-observe(read) loop.
924.
by akomtu 3y ago
It doesn't take a PhD to see where it goes. Once good enough AI is built, and we're close to that, it will be replicated by China, Russia and other big dictatorships. What would Russian dictator give for an AI that can lead his ar
925.
by akomtu 3y ago
Men and women are the same species, yet they are markedly different in many ways.
926.
by akomtu 3y ago
Can I use it to annotate a random pdf book and save comments for personal use?
927.
by akomtu 3y ago
This looks like a feature in web archive: it already keeps snapshots of web pages, so it could add a comments section. It can dodge the moderation problem entirely by not hosting the comments: instead it would render comments from rss sourc
928.
by akomtu 3y ago
Most of those individuals have a rather weak will, they are slaves of desires. At the same time a few individuals with a strong will and predatory mindset know how to push the weak crowd into a loop of addiction. Coca Cola is essentially a
929.
by akomtu 3y ago
Any sufficiently advanced creature would be dangerous without a connection to the whole. AI is a canonical example of such a headless creature: lots of intelligence, and zero compassion. Unless we find a way to make that inevitable AI feel
930.
by akomtu 3y ago
You, personally, can discriminate against anyone for any reason. The laws kick in once you're a non-trivial business.

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