inkblotuniverse

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by inkblotuniverse 3y ago
The terminator won't, it's fictional. If AI killed everyone, it probably wouldn't happen like a hollywood movie. Climate change is subject to way more unhinged hysteria, as well! Won't doom the species, though.
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by inkblotuniverse 3y ago
If I read a lot of fantasy books as a kid, then start writing my own fantasy book, should I have to pay royalties to the authors of the books I read?
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by inkblotuniverse 3y ago
Aeroplanes were science fiction, and widely called such, until they flew.
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by inkblotuniverse 3y ago
So do humans, and yet they can be quite troublesome.
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by inkblotuniverse 3y ago
Historically, people from different regions would be able to read each other's writing (send letters to each other) even if their spoken dialects/languages were mutually incomprehensible. You get this in European history, too, ju
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
It's the competence I'm afraid of! If they did it competently, they would make sure they had absolute surveillance of every american's internet history.
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
Yes, you want the government parenting your (and others) kids.
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
Why would the government do that, though?
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
Yes, the war on drugs has been really successful. I certainly want governments doing more of that!
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
[Muffled screaming]
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
They're looking to catch up! They don't want to remain poor, after all.
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
Evil is the wrong term. It's not that an AI will 'turn evil' - it's that we don't know how to make a 'good/friendly' AI, by which I mean an AI that inherently values humans and the things humans valu
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
You think consent is important. (This isn't even a umiversal position among humans). Why do you expect an AI to value consent? Do you think praying mantises value consent?
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
Check out based.cooking - just recipes, no fluff.
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
Part of why those smart people don't rule the world is because high IQ (in humans!) correlates with social problems and mental illness. The assumption is that this is limitation of human brains and that an AI would be less trade-off-
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
Why would an AI enslave humans? It'll just kill them and build something more useful to it.
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
I'd say it is- I can read and delete the whole thing in 5 minutes if I need to replace it with something more complicated. Usually, though, YAGNI
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
90 percent of apps are slow and unreponsive, and harming people by being so: but software developers aren't directly harmed by the effects of their actions, so the situation continues.
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
There are 1000x gains on the table! Almost all software is so far from pareto-optimal it's comical! It isn't a tradeoff between readability and efficiency, most software is unreadable and inefficient! When every function in your
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
I dislike government intervention, and so disavow my following statement. In the course of fining hidden externalized costs like those of dumping chemical waste into rivers, governments might fine software developers when they dump informat
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
I dislike government intervention, and so disavow my following statement. In the course of fining hidden externalized costs like those of dumping chemical waste into rivers, governments might fine software developers when they dump informat
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
The government cynically deciding whether or not to feed people doens't seem exclusively or specially capitalist.
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
Every man needs a semi-autonomous bullet proof drone.
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
On the upside, I like having access to a forum that excludes everybody too stupid to run an email server.
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
The wholw point of turing machines is that they can emulate any computable system. You could have your a turing machine simulate every atom inside a human, and then you trivially have a turing machine that shows intelligence equivalent to
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
We built airplanes before really understanding biological flight (especially e.g. bees).
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
Yes, that's the good future, except the overwhelming majority of people are virtual (keeping meat alive is expensive!)
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
I do both.
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
That seems pretty bad, yeah. I care about humanity. I care about myself! You're welcome to sterilize yourself, but i don't think I'll follow. The scenario you describe doesn't involve pain, but that doesn't mean
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by inkblotuniverse 4y ago
Good, too many people are using Linux.

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