Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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  • That’s unfortunately not how words work.

    Get into etymology and you’d be surprised at the number of words whose current meanings are complete 180s from their historical definitions.

    You can’t just look at a word a decide what it means. Very few people use the word feminist to intend what you are claiming it means.

    Suggesting they secretly intend your interpretation is mad, and claiming everyone except you is using the word wrong just means youre the one who has its definition wrong.










  • are we just amusing ourselves until death?

    IMO, yes. But just calling it “entertainment” is a bit reductionist, I think.

    But yeah. And I don’t see anything is wrong with that. Having a cat is cool, video games are fun, and good company is fulfilling in a powerful, indescribable, way.

    To experience that kind of stuff, and for others to do the same, as much and as often as possible, is what I live for.

    Yeah, there’s a lot of bad stuff in the world. But I’m able to make my corner of it quite liveable. And not just for myself, but for friends and family.

    I can’t save the world, but I can decide to make the sliver of it that I’ll interact with throughout my life, a little bit nicer.

    The part I struggle with, is finding a way to make living, that makes things better, not worse. Jobs that don’t contribute towards people having less and less time for the things that make life worth living, are non-existent.


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    Superpowered lying is already a thing, and all we needed was demographic data and context control.

    Today, it is possible to get a population to believe almost anything. Show them the right argument, at the right time, in the right context, and they believe it. Facebook and google have scaled up exactly that into their main sources of revenue.

    Same goes for attention hacking. AI generated content designed to hook viewers functions in entirely predictable, and fairly well understood ways. And the same goes for the algorithms which “recommend” additional content based on what someone is watching.

    As for why doctors can’t do things AIs are pulling off, I’d suggest that’s because current systems are using indicators we don’t know about, which they aren’t sentient enough to explain. If they could, I have no doubt a human doctor, given enough time, could learn about, and detect, such indicators.

    There is no evidence that what these models are doing, is “beyond our scale of thinking”.

    But again, I do think the machine will be faster.

    Current models display “emergent capabilities”, as in abilities we don’t know about before the model is created and tested. But once it is created, we can and have figured out what it is doing and how.