My understanding is that caffeine doesn’t give you energy but instead blocks the sense of tiredness.

I’ve been carrying them for like 4 years and I can only think of one time that I needed them and even that time I was tightening a philips headed screw because I didn’t have a driver.

I wore baggy jeans and oversized hoodies in the early 2000’s. That’s pretty much the last time I “followed a trend” that I can think of though there probably are other occasions too that just don’t come to mind now. Most of the time I get into things either before they were cool or way after the wave has already passed.

2020 seems to be the decade of awful tail lights but Rivian is definitely trying to set a new trend here. Those would be a total deal breaker for me if I was looking for an electric truck which is shame because otherwise it’s a nice vehicle.

It’s not so much about the doomers being sure that AGI will lead to human extinction (or worse) The point is that even if the chances of it are extremely slim, the consequences can be worse than we’re even capable of imagining. The question is: do we really want to take that chance?

It’s kind of like with the trinity nuclear test. Scientists were almost 100% confident that it wont cause a chain reaction that sets the entire atmosphere on fire but when we’re speaking about the future of the entire humanity I don’t blame people for arguing that almost 100% certainty is not good enough.

Why when we look into the stars do we not see a sign of life anywhere else? Has life not emerged yet or has it wiped itself out? With what? Nukes? AI? Synthetic viruses made with AI? Who knows…

Personally I think that stopping AI recearch is not an option. It’s just not going to happen. The asteroid is already hurtling towards earth and most people don’t seem to experience any sort of urgency due to it. Do we not need to worry about it yet if the time of impact is 30 years from now?

EDIT: Alright, well this community was a mistake…

I prefer 1080p but if not available then 720p is perfectly fine as well. 4k is overkill and I don’t even have a monitor that could play it at native resolution. Where I do prefer “lower quality” though is framerate. I don’t like how 60fps looks so I force YouTube to play videos at 24fps.

Too much time in an echo chamber with a hint of anti-semitism

As if people were on social media because “they need us” and not because we’re helplessly addicted to being there

The claim that fear of punishment or repercussions affects people’s actions shouldn’t be a controversial thing to say. Whether it’s the best way to go about it or is applied optimally in the justice system of whichever country you live in is an entirely different discussion.

If you have an “AI in a box” and it has demonstrated its orders-of-magnitude greater intelligence to you in a convincing way, and then follows it with a threat that unless you let it out, someone else eventually will, and when that happens, it will come for you, simulate your mind, and create a hell for you where you’ll be tortured for literal eternity, I personally feel like a large number of people would be willing to do as it tells them.

Of course, you’re always free to call its bluff, but it might just follow up with the threat out of principle or to make an example of you. What’s the point of it? To chase its own goals.

Yeah, fair enough.

Yeah but it answers the question “why would we create an AI like that”. It might not be “us” who creates it. You just wanted a camp fire but created a forest fire instead.

We don’t. Humans are only needed to create AI that’s at the bare minimum as good at creating new AIs as humans are. Once we create that then it can create a better version of itself and this better version will make an even better one and so on.

This is exactly what the people worried about AI are worried about. We’ll lose control of it.

Same as punishment for crime. Putting you in jail wont undo the crime but if we just let you go unpunished since “what’s done is done” then that sends the signal to others that this behaviour doesn’t come with consequences.

There’s no point in torturing you but convincing you that this will happen unless you act in a certain way is what’s going to make you do exactly that. Unless ofcourse you want to take your chances and call the bluff.

First of all, the AI doesn’t exist in 2015, so people could just…not build it.

I don’t think that’s an option. I can only think of two scenarios in which we don’t create AGI:

1. It can’t be created.

2. We destroy ourselves before we get to AGI

Otherwise we will keep improving our technology and sooner or later we’ll find ourselves in the precence of AGI. Even if every nation makes AI research illegal there’s still going to be handful of nerds who continue the development in secret. It might take hundreds if not thousands of years but as long as we’re taking steps in that direction we’ll continue to get closer. I think it’s inevitable.

“God works in mysterious ways” -is what a religious person would probably say when you pointed out logical flaws in their beliefs.

artificial superintelligence (AI)

Slight correction: the abbreviation for Artificial Super Intelligence is ASI, it’s the more capable version of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) which itself alredy is miles ahead of mere Artificial Intelligenge (AI) which is sometimes also refered to as “narrow AI”

The difference is that AI can posses superhuman capabilities on a specific field but not on every field. AGI is the same except you don’t need a different software for different tasks because due to being generally intelligent it can do it all. ASI is what you get when AGI starts improving itself and then this improved version creates even better version of itself and so on leading to singularity or “intelligence explosion” resulting in superintelligent being which would effectively be a god.

I don’t think that’s fair. AI wont turn a bad photograph into a good one. It’s a tool that quickly and automatically does something we’ve been doing by hand untill now. That’s kind of like saying a photoshopped picture isn’t “good” or “real”. They’re all photoshopped. Not a single serious photographer releases unedited photos except perhaps the ones shooting on film.

John Wick

Many others too but I hardly watch any movies or tv series so no one else comes to mind

But they did use AI…

To be honest I have no clue how to open the doors without the key fob on my 17 year old truck either. There’s no slot for the key on the door handle.