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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
PostPosted: Thu June 18, 2020 12:45 am 
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Google was similar for me. "all lives matter" was given as a criticism of black lives matter, but "white lives matter" gave a very definite "correction".

The war between white nationalists and white liberal AI is going to be very strange.

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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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Can we just get Alexa to argue with tree in the racism thread?


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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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Will all these companies moving out of silicon valley be bringing their cancerous politics with them?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... california

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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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Will all these companies moving out of silicon valley be bringing their cancerous politics with them?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... california

Some have moved to MT and I can report our state is controlled by Republicans


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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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Bezos is stepping down. I don't know if that means anything but probably not.

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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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BurtReynolds wrote:
Bezos is stepping down. I don't know if that means anything but probably not.

I hope he'll be ok financially

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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Bezos is stepping down. I don't know if that means anything but probably not.

I hope he'll be ok financially

After that divorce settlement, probably not.

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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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They already know how to lie, albeit badly.

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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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This will go well

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas ... index.html

World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say

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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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BurtReynolds wrote:
This will go well

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas ... index.html

World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say
apparently that's not really accurate, but you probably already knew that.


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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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I love these 2 sentences at the bottom:

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While the prospect of self-replicating biotechnology could spark concern, the researchers said that the living machines were entirely contained in a lab and easily extinguished, as they are biodegradable and regulated by ethics experts.

The research was partially funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a federal agency that oversees the development of technology for military use.


Nothing to worry about. DARPA funded "ethics experts" are on the case!

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If there are two words that go together, it's "DARPA" and "ethics"!

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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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Is Skynet a division of DARPA?

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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26443-0

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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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Supernormal stimuli
ADDICTION, STIMULATION
Consider these findings from Tinbergen, a researcher who coined the term supernormal stimulus:

Songbirds have light blue and small eggs. The exaggerated, supernormal version of those eggs would be a huge, bright blue dummy egg. When such a dummy is shown to the songbirds, they would abandon their real eggs and instead sit on top of the dummy; they choose the artificial over the real because the artificial is more stimulating.
There's more: the songbirds would feed dummy children over their real children, if the dummies had wider and redder mouths. The children themselves would rather beg food from a dummy mother than the real mother, if the dummy had a more stimulating beak.
Supernormal stimuli are exaggerated versions of the things we evolved to desire. Supernormal stimuli hijack the weak spots in our brains by supplying so much of what we desire that we don't want the boring, real thing anymore. Thus, we act in evolutionarily harmful ways - much like the bird who abandons their eggs. When you can eat pizza, who wants broccoli? When you can have 500 porn stars, who wants a "normal" mate? Why bother with the real life, you have much more fun in the game world, with much less effort.

While there are physical superstimuli, like drugs and junk food, we must be especially careful with digital superstimuli because there is virtually no limit how much stimuli can be pumped into you. A pizza can include only so much fat and salt and other stuff that makes your brain go brrr... But there's no limit as to how stimulating a video or game or virtual world can be. Nature has set no ceilings; it has only determined what we are stimulated by, so we always want more, at all costs.

We're already approaching a point with VR porn and "teledildonics" where one may rather mate the technology than a real person. Some would much rather move a video game character than their real bodies. At some point, we'll maybe create artificial children (perhaps in the metaverse) who simply are much cuter than real babies, and much less trouble. As fewer and fewer people have babies - intentionally or unintentionally - we realize that we aren't much smarter than the birds sitting on huge blue balls instead of their own eggs. As Yudkowsky writes, superstimuli may be the thing that leads to human extinction.

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