The day will come that an AI will learn something that we did not deliberately teach it. When an AI is able to improve its own code, it won't be bound by the limitations of its human creator. It's only a question of when.
LK
Can a non-biological entity feel desire? Can it want to grow and become something more than what it is? I think that's a philosophical question and not a technological one.
LK
Don't agree at all and I think that's a morally dangerous approach. We're looking for a scientific definition of "desire" and "want". That's almost certainly a part of "conscious" and "self aware". Philosophy can help, but in the end, to know whether you are right or not you need the experimental results.
Experiments can be crafted in such a way as to exclude certain human beings from consciousness.
One day, it's extremely likely that a machine will say to us "I am alive. I am awake. I want..." and whether or not it's true is going to be increasingly hard to determine.
LK
Only if we define consciousness to be a state of awareness only attainable by human beings.
An LLM can't suddenly decide to do something else which isn't programmed into it.
Can we?
It's only a matter of time until an AI can learn to do something it wasn't programmed by us to do.
Can a non-biological entity feel desire? Can it want to grow and become something more than what it is? I think that's a philosophical question and not a technological one.
LK
"Computer science went from a future-proof career to an industry in upheaval in a shockingly small amount of time."
This is basically 2001 prior to 9/11 again. Even the Slashdot comments could be substituted. I must be getting old.
Sucks to be graduating right now.
Disney has pleasantly surprised me with how they're dealing with Star Wars. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now.
LK
Sometimes, they write love letters to the fans.
LK
HBO might not mean anything to Gen Z and later but for us Gen X and earlier, there was still a level of prestige associated with the brand.
It was stupid to throw that away.
LK
I called it out on another branch of this discussion but I'm talking about things like, someone posts a question that goes something like this:
"Am I The Asshole for declining a second date with the chick I met on Tinder after she told me she was trans?"
Topics like this are ban honeypots because even getting too close to a verboten position will get you banned by Reddit.
I have seen it. I have been threatened with a ban for expressing the opinion that 8 year old children shouldn't be given sex reassignment surgery.
Reddit is toxic.
LK
I chose that specific example precisely because it's banned on all of reddit. If you say that there is any difference between XX CIS women and XY Trans women, you'll be banned from Reddit.
Ridiculous, right?
LK
Presumably the OP is referring to any number of subs related to women, women who want to date women, or other subreddits where that discussion is completely germane, and yet here you are banging on about beekeeping as though it's somehow relevant in the slightest.
Or general relationship subreddits.
Someone will ask "Am I transphobic for not going on a second date after this chick I met on Tinder told me she was trans?"
It'll be a ban honeypot.
LK
Good faith disagreements can get you banned from a lot of them.
Someone who is prone to falling in line with group think will likely never encounter it but it's real.
LK
It's a stupid echo chamber full of stupid people who are chasing stupid agendas.
It's a place where they will permanently ban you for suggesting that there is any difference of any kind between XX CIS women and XY Trans women.
It's a place where you'll be mod bombed into oblivion for saying that you wouldn't want to date a current or former sex worker.
It's a place where honest discourse goes to die.
Seriously, fuck Reddit.
LK
It's worth running the numbers.
In 50,000 years, there could be a whole new crop of coal to repeat this whole cycle all over again.
LK
That's the thing about the eco wackos that really burns my ass.
Nuclear is the only viable option for cheap, clean power and they fight it tooth and nail. Solar and wind are great additions but nuclear would give us everything we need.
They don't want that. They're not pushing for thorium power, they're not pushing to update safety standards. They're fighting to shut it all down.
They're not concerned with saving the environment, they're neo-luddites.
Cheap, clean power would do more than anything else within our reach at the moment to improve the lives of everyone on this planet and they oppose it, have you ever wondered why?
LK
Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe.
