Intelligence helps you understand how certain choices affect you in the long-term, and morality tends to align with long-term self interest. It makes sense people with low intelligence tend to appeal to an authority to derive their morality.
That “company” is the key part of the scam here. Your father will be asked to invest money in it for various reasons. Whether they’ll go for the “it’s a great deal” or “help me Obi Wan” angle is dependent on the mark.
I wouldn’t call it a con. NDP just hasn’t offered a good enough federal leadership since Jack Layton. And I wouldn’t say the liberals rule entirely on the right, they have made plenty of good progressive strides. I think this type of rhetoric is conservatives trying to weasel their way into an “I told you our ideas were good” territory. The real issue is that corporatism is very embedded in politics and the economy is highly dependent on their success.
There is a severe lack of attractive coworkers these days. Terrible for morale.
I don’t even know why they bother pretending they have laws anymore. No one on the outside buys their bullshit and their loyal zombie hordes will bend over for any reason. It’s just a silly larp now.
Intentionality is the key difference. You can eventually tell a Chinese room’s nature by giving it new variables that it hasn’t encountered before. New problems lead to algorithmic breakdown.
That said, there’s deeper conversations you can have about what consciousness truly is, of course. My personal view is that it requires a level of complexity that we are still very far away from architecturally, and a level of scalability that we may not even be able to support ecologically. This thought experiment is mainly to show you what the inner workings of a computerized process can look like, and works to provide a demystified perspective.
A concept that I think is really helpful for interpreting what an LLM does is the concept of a “Chinese room”. The idea is someone slips a piece of paper containing a message in Chinese under the door and inside that room is someone that doesn’t know Chinese following a set of rules for converting characters and numerals into a response based off their syntax. Afterwards the person in the room creates a response and slips it back out under the door. At no point does the person in the room understand the Chinese in the input or in the output, but the person standing outside of the room might believe there is a Chinese speaker inside of the room. This is the same idea with computerized outputs like LLMs. They only provide the illusion of intentionality and don’t actually have an understanding of inputs or their outputs.
And the added economic benefits of having in-house services are basically a return on investment that balance out any higher initial costs. It’s a no brainer.
The way I see it, AI is just another log on the fire, although it is indeed a big log. The use of laptops and the prevalence of smartphones all damaged kids’ attention spans, then came the advent of short form content which further degraded their ability to stay focused and now we have AI slop summarizing what we see with our own eyes and taking agency away from their very brains. Somewhere along the line we convinced ourselves that more tech is good for education, and I think that needs to be rethought. We need to get kids back to reading and writing the old school way. There’s neuropsychological benefits to it that you just don’t get from typing or scrolling on computers. And this problem exists even outside of the classroom or kids. It’s a problem with all generations. I’m noticing just as much mental decline in older populations as younger ones.
Because they’re just as stupid as other people, but they’ve also got the survivorship bias compounding the effect of their stupidity.
Keep the jokes coming!
Get rid of the execs and their overinflated salaries/bonuses instead. How’s that for agile?
When the umbilical chord is cut.
“Most powerful man in the world”. Nationalistic egocentrism never fails to get a laugh out of me.
This is an often misquoted fact. The study that compared coal and nuclear was only studying air pollutants, and obviously the steam stacks from nuclear reactors don’t have as much radionuclide pollutants as coal. However, the study did not look at other sources like wastewater - which is where most radionuclide pollution from nuclear reactors comes from (along with other sources like spent fuel, casings, and moderator rods).
Well I would argue beta decay is an aging-like property inherent in atoms. Granted, the half-lives are pretty long, but a limit still technically exists in that respect.
Neat lil promo video, but not much meat on the bones. I think it would be real great to do a similar short video that focuses entirely on the negatives of car dependency:
-wasteful infrastructure (parking lots & car-only roads) -damage to the environment (gas emissions, microplastics from tires, road infrastructure killing greenery, noise pollution, temperature increase from lack of shade due to car infrastructure) -damage to psyche (traffic aggression, isolation due to distance, detachment due to distractions and physical encapsulation) -damage to health (pollutants, deadly accidents, muscle atrophy and cardiovascular disease from sitting all day) -economic burden (paying for car, paying for gas, paying for parking, paying for insurance, paying for maintenance, increased taxes)
Hey this happened in Spec Ops the Line
Procedurally generated incoherent non-permanence slop. Like playing some sort of 90s techno music video minus the campiness. Check out Google Genie for an example.
AI can’t make anything new, it can only copy what’s existing. Essentially serving slop every time. Best it can ever do is make a meme game that’s fun to play as a joke for an hour or two.