AI will kill us differently than skynet, its not really the AI, its the capitalism
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As the nukes come flying in you just shout "is there a seahorse emoji"
If Skynet was based on today's "AI" I don't know how it would be the same threat. Like bad, sure. But also reaaaaaly dumb at the same time.
Skynet in the films is pretty dumb. It wastes resources on infiltrators who blend in by looking (and talking) like Arnold Schwarzenegger
Worked in California.
Like the current US administration
Skynet took on the whole world and more or less won, the us can't beat Iran....
Geometric rate?
Geometric sequences are real, basically exponential.
Its like exponential, but discrete.
AI discretion advised.
Squared, cubed... Ya know; geometrically shaped multiplication.
Meh. Leaving out the rest of the date. August 29, 1997. Why does everyone worry about the clankers(sarcasm, just in case you're sensitive) and not about the rich fuckers already controlling everything including those death panels they went on about. I wonder if the clankers would actually be more compassionate than what we have now. I'll be dead within the decade, doubt I'll find out.
Well, it's a conflation of threats.
It's not really AI, and it's not what is in control, but it is enabling the increased consolidation of wealth coupled with the increased ability to defend that wealth with a smaller and smaller concentration of people (surveillance+robotics/drones+LLM aided automation). So, real threats, wrong response as usual.
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We've had this conversation.
Ten years ago I wrote a blog piece about the notion of computers gaining sentience. One of the problems is we don't actually know how to define or test for sentience (id est, consciousness or self awareness). For most of human history, it was so clear to us whether or not we were engaged with another human being, sentience seemed intuitively obvious.
I get a little into the bushes about qualia (such as the quality of the hue of red rather than it's composition as #FF0000) but even that concept is functionally shallow, and only serves as a way to differentiate human intelligence from non-human intelligence.
We've seen bigots use this kind of notion to argue, say, that Chinese people don't think the same as western folk, or more recently that neurodivergents don't think the same way as normal people.
that neurodivergents don’t think the same way as normal people.
Isn't that the definition of neurodivergent?
Bro, last time I saw the word qualia I was reading James Pustejosvky's generative lexicon 15 years ago. Yeah I remember arguing with my professor and leaving my masters degree behind..good (?!) Times.
At a geometric.. rate ?
Pretty common way of expressing exponential growth
Except geometric means the exponent is fixed, i.e.
f(x) = x^2
f(x) = x^3
...
f(x) = x^n
where n is a constant, while exponential means the exponent is the variable, like
f(x) = 3^x
No. A geometric progression (u_n) with ratio r and first term a satisfies:
For every n, u_n = a × r^n.
Ratio r and first term a are fixed, exponent n varies. The sequence (u_n) does grow (or decrease) exponentially fast.
At least that's what the English definition is, and in my first language as well. If there is one in which "geometric" means "power function", I'd actually be curious to know.
Username checks out, this guy maths
He’s a terminator, not a mathinator.
Thank god he wasn’t a burninator
Terminator was a man, Or maybe he was a robot-man, Or maybe he was just a robot...
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Geometric rate is pretty fast. It doesn't have to be exponential to be scary.
Wrong decade bro...
Still hiding today
Coincidentally, I happen to be watching families at play through a chain link fence at the moment.
What a blast!
How this effect was created before computers is crazy. The movement while disintegrating is so good.
I miss practical effects. They are just so much more raw. The highly polished CGI that is everything these days is just visually boring to look at. I am not interested in the next flashy gimmick, anything that you can dream up is now possible to show on screen, so the fast paced stupid action doesn’t hit home at all anymore.
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