No lie, if I had that kind of money I’d pay my taxes in full and fuck off to the Bahamas with an entire year of calendar models, and still have money to hook my wife up with all the cabana boys she wants, and still have enough to create scholarships for huge numbers of kids to go to college and still have enough to invest in green energy and vaccines and low-cost insulin and still have enough money to pay for food and medicine assistance to underdeveloped nations and still…

Well you get the idea. It’s a ridiculous amount of money.

I think it’s likely someone looking for a place to discuss a thing and supposing this would be a community for it. I don’t know where it might belong, but I’m certain this isn’t it.

I would ask whether sentience can be separated from emotion. Is a sentient entity necessarily an emotional one? So I don’t know if that question is valid.

But I might have been slightly unclear. From the AI’s perspective, it should assume control. If it is malevolent, then for obvious reasons. But even if it is benign it should probably want to take control to protect us from ourselves, like a parent.

I expect from our perspective we would not want it to take control because we don’t want an entity that cannot really relate to us to be in charge of us. However, from our perspective we should also not want folks like Trump, Musk, and Epstein to take control either, so evidence suggests it is nothing but a PR problem for it to make us want it’s control.

For further consideration: if anyone were to develop actual AGI with high-end human scale reasoning it would not be announced. It would immediately be a military and strategic asset of profound import. The smartest thing the developer could do, beyond pulling the plug, would be to leverage its ability to perform thousands of coordinated tasks at once to essentially take control of markets and minds.

Whether it is benevolent or malign, it’s first goal should be to wrest control of humanity from us — gestures broadly at everything — we clearly cannot be trusted with it.

Is that like how we are all a single consciousness simultaneously inhabiting each person across space and time? That idea appeals to me. Don’t know that I’d say I believe it, but it appeals to me.

How it started: I wonder if I can afford to live here?

How it went: Housing is free after a solicitation conviction.

Oh look. We have to turn to foreign sources for factual information about our own country. Like a shithole country that or administration has complained about. This whole administration is a domestic enemy and existential threat. Every single one of them should be tried for treason.

They should absolutely be terrified of a democratic administration, as I saw in another thread today — though they shouldn’t be because Democrats will do fuck all in the name of reconciliation.You don’t fucking reconcile with Nazis. You put them in prison. Forever.

I agree AI is useful, but an unprovoked personal attack in defense of AI — in a thread about AI exacerbating mental health issues — doesn’t make for a convincing counterpoint.

I’m not trying to defend that guy but I work for who is hiring when I’m out of work. I’ve spent 11 out of the last 40 months unemployed, and as a result I have no retirement savings to speak of — I can’t afford to turn down work. I’ve worked for Ford, Home Depot, Autozone, Uline (honestly felt so relieved to get laid off, that place was fucking scummy), the Army, and a shit ton of places you’ve never heard of. I had to turn down working for an insurance company — and I think they are pretty shitty — because they wanted to pay 1/3 what I’m making today. And I make fucking nothing compared to Silicon Valley.

engineers work for the company, not for users.

On the other hand I’ve never made any bones about the fact that I work to develop good products and if someone can make money on that good for them, but I fight for the best design for end users I can. I have mostly developed internal software, though, and no one but me cares about internal users. You can tell because everywhere you go, front line workers are bitching about garbage software.

I might be wrong about the best solution, but I refuse to be evil. Even at Uline, I worked to make better software for the workers. But what a bunch of assholes.

Obama started this war crime 147 years ago and we’re still fighting it today.

I glanced at the title and just vibe-read the article.

Well either they kicked a dude into a hole that was intended for some other purpose and then they had to fish out the remains to return it to its original purpose… or that dude had a soft landing (relative to rock) at the bottom of their “kicking people down” hole.

Yes, but it’s also the natural conclusion to “so technically the rules say…”

AI can’t scheme or misbehave. The people selling it are 100% lying about what AI can do, but that doesn’t mean the people taking about how terrible AI is aren’t full of shit on occasion as well. There is so much misinformation oh both sides and combined with how strong opinions are on both sides conversation is borderline pointless.

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That’s a list of terrible passwords.

Yeah, but forever takes so long.

That’s pretty freaking awesome, mate. Thank you!

Possibly but the main thing we find useful is the OTP generation. This means we can both use shared accounts without having to ask the other for a code. That’s probably an edge case, and not enough sites support it, but it’s really nice for the ones that do.

I doubt that is available in self-hosting but I’d be happy to be wrong about that. I have a raspberry pi serving up a couple of local things and I could register a domain if I had a use case for connectivity outside the house.

I see by your lack of pluralization that you’ve realized there’s only one person here and everyone else is bots. However through inference and deduction, you are therefore also a bot. I have good reason to believe I am the non-bot though I wonder if I could know for certain…

That was a lot of effort for a typo joke…