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by goatlover 1mo ago
The same as Israel.
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by goatlover 1mo ago
The same could be said for the current US leadership. All sorts of crazy sounding stuff comes from the White House. Imagine being Canadian.
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by goatlover 1mo ago
The AI race is caused and being sustained by American tech companies. China is an excuse to keep it going.
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by goatlover 1mo ago
Then look at the Middle East.
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by goatlover 1mo ago
Big difference between defense of a country and starting wars. Canada and Switzerland don't start wars but they still have a military in case they ever need it to protect from an aggressor. Like Russia or the Canadian neighbor to the s
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by goatlover 1mo ago
Nukes also destroy infrastructure and irradiate surrounding areas making cleanup and rescue harder. Then there's to potential for massive fires putting debris into the stratosphere, which could dim sunlight for a time and cause global
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by goatlover 1mo ago
Very interesting book. You don't really think about how often metaphors are employed in language, and their influence on how we think. The book makes some rather strong claims regarding science and philosophy being misled by metaphoric
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by goatlover 1mo ago
Was regime change in Iraq and Afghanistan worth it despite how bad their governments were? Even the party of Bush & Cheney seems to think that was a bad idea and Trump ran on no more wars in the ME.
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by goatlover 1mo ago
What was so bad about the non-Windows interface other than it wasn't Windows? I didn't have problems with using Notes email or developing apps for Notes. It had incredible workflow and database replication features. Blew anything
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by goatlover 1mo ago
Evolution selects for fit organisms that have to survive and reproduce in the world, not language models waiting on prompts. The temptation to analogize technology to biology is just top hard to resist I guess. Problem with analogies and me
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by goatlover 1mo ago
> They give each other pats on the back for shitting on the most popular, versatile, compatible and adaptable programming language of all time. I don't see why C, C++ or Java wouldn't meet some of those criteria. Everything is
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by goatlover 1mo ago
When is this unauthorized war going to end?
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by goatlover 1mo ago
George Carlin aside, wouldn't a majority of people be around average intelligence? That's the infamous bell curve.
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by goatlover 1mo ago
Those nuclear powered flying cars envisioned in the 50s were also inevitable progress of the automobile.
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by goatlover 1mo ago
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
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by goatlover 1mo ago
There were prominent scientists like Oppenheimer who did not think it needed to become an arms race, and campaigned against that. But there were others like Teller and the military who made it into an arms race, and kept upping the ante wit
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by goatlover 1mo ago
The arms race is created by American companies who justify the risk by claiming China will win the race if they don't. But it's the American companies who are purshing the arms race forward.
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by goatlover 1mo ago
Because if the stated goals of AGI with recursive self-improvement are realized, the risks from misalignment become existential, and it's hard to see how we can manage it like we did the Cold War (developing MAD to prevent WW3) and nuc
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by goatlover 1mo ago
Left behind in corruption?
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by goatlover 1mo ago
Not anymore than ants or any other species that's spread across the planet. A virus is something co-opts the replication machinery of a host to make more copies. That's not what humans do. Since this idea may have come from the fi
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by goatlover 1mo ago
Wasn't aware that memes were an accepted part of evolutionary biology. They're not inherited like genes through reproduction that are subject to natural selection via biological fitness. Or any other evolutionary mechanism.
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by goatlover 1mo ago
> but I am curious what happens when say 100 million people can't meaningfully live in American society. Nothing good. Social upheaval. Lots of crime. Mass detentions and deportations. Possibly a revolution.
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by goatlover 1mo ago
You're describing an economic situation that has never happened. Electricity and vehicles didn't make income dissapear.
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by goatlover 1mo ago
How much UBI would be needed for most of the population to live comfortable middle class lives? UBI isn't going to be acceptable if it reduces the middle class to just above the poverty line. People want more than just having enough to
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by goatlover 1mo ago
By putting almost everyone else on basic income because they're jobs were automated? How much would that need to be? Even if it's enough for basic needs, you're relegating most of the population to a low class status with lim
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by goatlover 1mo ago
The question for optimists is, if AI succeeds in it's promise, what sort of society do they envision being the result? For one thing, I don't think everyone except the extremely wealthy being on basic income is ideal or better tha
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by goatlover 1mo ago
See West Virginia coal mining in the early 20th century. Resulted in a lot of violent conflict as desperate workers were getting squeezed for every penny and owned little of their own, often working in company towns.
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by goatlover 1mo ago
And yet with all that, Democrats are likely to retake the US Congress because a majority of Americans are experiencing an affordability crisis.
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by goatlover 1mo ago
Being wrong about when a financial bubble will burst is different than being wrong that there is a financial bubble. That's the question, because if AI is driving a bubble, then it will burst at some point.
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by goatlover 1mo ago
On a second reading I'm going to take this as sarcasm.

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