smeeger

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by smeeger 2y ago
it only becomes more obvious that AI is being treated as an arms race. thats why the federal government assassinated suchir balaji.
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by smeeger 2y ago
civ started with an idea based on nerding out over history… it needs more history and less game. half the reason anyone likes civ v is because of the narration of the tech tree. it makes you feel like you are voyaging across history. now th
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by smeeger 2y ago
how is it an argument when both sides are so deliciously correct
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by smeeger 2y ago
wrong. it wouldn't take a very big asteroid (as astroids go) for the amount of inertia to go well beyond what we are capable of deflecting. its a real example. AI on the other hand could be stopped simply by stopping. we wouldnt even h
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by smeeger 2y ago
if you had to actually talk to me in real time i would make you look like a complete fool.
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by smeeger 2y ago
cash salaries arent important to executives or rich people. they are important to peons which is why they flap their gums about it so much.
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by smeeger 2y ago
this is false in practice and you know it. flagging powers lie almost entirely in the hands of leftist users. the reality of this website is anything that is right-leaning is immediately flagged and beaten down and removed by you. meanwhile
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by smeeger 2y ago
i think you are trolling
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by smeeger 2y ago
and we should all observe soberly the fact that slavery is evil and fundamentally un-American. thats why we excised it from our country.
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by smeeger 2y ago
you arent answering the question: why are these links allowed, which are blatentky political, but any political comments that dont toe the line are removed? that is literally an echo chamber…
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by smeeger 2y ago
this is a common myth. effective tax rate for americas wealthiest men has never been at those levels.
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by smeeger 2y ago
the slaves probably helped a little but even with all the slaves in the world, a country that is corrupt and uninspired couldnt achieve half of what we have. the american work ethic is recognized by the whole world even today.
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by smeeger 2y ago
if you are really so curious then lets have a live, public x space about it
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by smeeger 2y ago
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by smeeger 2y ago
it is a neurosis because a healthy human being will see the world in a pro-social way. a normal way. but this sometimes obscures the truth. the truth is that there will be many benevolent AIs… there will be every kind of AI imaginable. but
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by smeeger 2y ago
the reason to worry is that humanity could halt AI if it wanted to. if there were a huge asteroid on a collision course with earth… there would be literally nothing we could do to stop it. there would be no configuration of our resources, n
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by smeeger 2y ago
a foolish assumption but i have my fingers crossed for you and stuck firmly up my own butt… just in case that will increase the lucky effect of it
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by smeeger 2y ago
i think if AI gains the ability to reason, introspect and self-improve (AGI) then the situation will become very serious very quickly. AGI will be a very new and powerful technology and AGI will immediately create/unlock lots of other
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by smeeger 2y ago
this boils down to the definition of pain. what is pain? i doubt you know even if you have experienced it. theres no reason to think that even llms are not guided by something that resembles pain.
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by smeeger 2y ago
it could be tomorrow. you dont know and the heuristics, which five years ago pointed unanimously to the utter impossibility of this idea, are now in favor of it.
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by smeeger 2y ago
important point here. regardless of what happens, the transition period will be extremely ugly. it will almost certainly involve war.
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by smeeger 2y ago
this comment is a perfect example of how insane this situation is… because if you think about it deeply then you are able to understand that these machines will be more spiritual, more human than human beings. people will prefer to confide
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by smeeger 2y ago
so-called accelerationists have this fuzzy idea that everything will be so cheap that people will be able to just pluck their food from the tree of AI. they believe that all disease will be eliminated. but they go to great lengths to ignore
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by smeeger 2y ago
foolish assumption on your part
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by smeeger 2y ago
i think of it as federal autophagy. probably even many federal employees are glad for the chance to rebuild something simpler and more efficient
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by smeeger 2y ago
thinking the world can only get better is another thing too
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by smeeger 2y ago
it is fascinating to consider that this might not be true even though it seems true
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by smeeger 2y ago
i have been getting bad migraines for as long as i can remember. bad enough to vomit when i was a kid. nothing ever helped except when i took a healthy dose of lsd in highschool and they stopped completely for five years or so. i had been g
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by smeeger 2y ago
true. the one time i used lsd i had a horrifying bad trip, like a waking nightmare. the kind of bad trip that people die from. but my migraines completely stopped for five years afterwards.
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by smeeger 2y ago
im fascinated by the idea that good memory is a sign of low intelligence. it started when i saw that video of apes being made to play memory games in a lab. they have insane, super-human photographic memory. when they are exposed to a patte

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