loopies

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by loopies 10d ago
Seems common sense that time perception is required for consciousness. Something which has no perception of time has to be very wildly different to whatever we mean by consciousness. Also we don't even know if consciousness can be of d
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by loopies 10d ago
>If we ever found other species that were consciousness they wouldn't automatically be "human" nor would they have the same legal rights. This is the tricky part, you can never know. Scientifically speaking, and logically,
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by loopies 10d ago
It does have what we have if it works on the same principles of our brains. It kind of does to some degree atm, but that will clearly get more and more to a more degree. Figuring out where is the consciousness line, how much of what we
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by loopies 10d ago
>you can't hold the person responsible The act of holding them responsible is supposed to determine them not do it. If stochastic behavior is impeding them in being a functional member of society then it still makes sense to remov
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by loopies 10d ago
>and given that QM effects don't scale to molecular level, that leaves only determinism This is simply wrong. Quantum effects affect your choices more than it might seem possible. The wrong atom decays in the wrong place in your bod
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by loopies 10d ago
Even so you still cannot ever test for it. The very best you can do is define human consciousness as requiring the functions of a human brain, and try to figure out (decide/agree) the chances that something which is working loosely on
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by loopies 10d ago
Esperanto failed because it is a mix a multiple languages. It's a fully political language, hence why it went nowhere. >It is an illusion to think of AI as we know them today as being without bias and without ideology. That doesn&#x
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by loopies 10d ago
We absolutely can invent a new language. It won't be as good as AI could make it. For example, it could analyze a lot of data and catalog how certain sounds are perceived, analyze what we struggle with communicating today at internatio
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Ask HN: Can LLMs be used to invent a new human language?
1 points by loopies 10d ago|6 comments
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by loopies 12d ago
I think whenever we reach such ludicrous conclusions it's more likely we have made at least one wrong assumption, if not more. And people seem to be captivated by these memes, because the fear is great. It similar to eternal damnation
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by loopies 12d ago
I don't understand. Why does my current life win every instant atm? Why is it so much greater than your proposition? Why don't we all instantly collapse to what you described?
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by loopies 12d ago
>Everyone wants to rule the world and couldn't care less about anything else. This might be scarily true. But we end up in the same problem, which is the fear of most people being wiped up. Does it matter if the AI is doing it on it
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by loopies 12d ago
I do not think death exists as a thing. We're shoving a lot of stuff into the concept. Pain, loss of information, of the one who dies. Fear of the unknown, what happens next. Death is a very volatile concept if you really try to pin it
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by loopies 12d ago
I mean sure, in the end you can have some heaven, some benevolent alien species reaching back into some field and copying all of your material structure data right at time of death and rebuilding you in some kind of resurection center. The
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by loopies 12d ago
I think in all of these debates people lose track of one of the major vectors of threat, as you said, other humans. From my point of view this is an ever bigger problem with this tech, like orders of magnitude bigger. The current setup we f
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by loopies 12d ago
>Quantum Immortality argument I never really understood what is the explanation for ... old people that we notice as dying. In today's times you might have an argument that some kind of life extension could pop up and some of the pe
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by loopies 12d ago
>Ill take good ole USA where at least I know I am free At personal level that sounds like a better idea, but at group level it doesn't seem to be, that's what I think is OP's argument. If a society puts more value on perso
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by loopies 12d ago
>Alignment is just a 1984-esque way of saying "censorship". Close, but I think it's more akin to "perfectly enslaved", please excuse my choice of the word but I think it represents what I think is how it will wor
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by loopies 14d ago
>Why can't companies these days just print a shop manual and be done with it? They would be losing money without overpriced repairs. That's why they lobby so hard against right to repair. Even with some kind of right to repair
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by loopies 14d ago
What you want is the service manual. Owner manual should be implicit. OBD port can work for some cars, for some of the data. But other cars do have specialized gear they require to either access either reset some stuff in some of the car&
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by loopies 15d ago
Thank you, that is very interesting! I remember seeing something about absorption/emission and seemed to make some logical sense. But indeed if emission is in a random direction then transparent materials wouldn't make sense.
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by loopies 15d ago
That is interesting. But then what is the explanation? Medium is not really anything concrete, we call that a collection of atoms isn't it? By default there is only one medium, the vacuum of space, in which there can be various densiti
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by loopies 17d ago
I saw they moved to composite blades but why don't they need such a warning system?