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  • I tried. Prior to the election i was doing everything possible to change peoples minds. To get people together and ready for what needed to be done. Back then I was “overreacting”

    Now that trump is in office we no longer have a winning strategy. People suddenly want to pretend like they care when it’s all virtue signalling. Just like climate change, now that its too late to do anything, its ok to acknowledge that it exists.



  • But this is one case where we know its possible to create those sorts of ais, because its effectively what nature does with the huamn mind. It might be entirely possible that true ai is a biology exclusive issue. Or, as is much more likely, it can be replicated through circuitry.

    Tangentially related, how do you define thinking and reasoning? I would argue it cannot think however it can currently reason fairly well, even if that reasoning is flawed due to hallucinations. It has issues that i dont want to downplay, but i havent seen any reason to suggest that modern ai has any issues reasoning when all factors are controlled (not using a censored model, enough token memory, not hallucinating, etc)


  • Im not quite who you guys are talking about, but im pretty close. I dont have any issues with people talking about how poor current AI is, but it seems pointless. Its like pointing out that a toddler is bad at spelling. My issue comes in when people say that AI will always be useless. Even now its not useless. And top commentor did already point out the key detail: this is as bad as it will ever be.

    There is nothing stopping AI from becoming better at everything you can do than you are. Everything until then is just accoimating us to that world. Ai isnt going to be the next big thing, its going to be the only big thing ever. It will literally be more impactful on this galaxy than all of humanity excluding the creation of AI.





  • Scubus@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlYou'll never see it coming
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    6 months ago

    You have a ball on a trampoline. Wind might knock the ball around, but its very likely to return to the center of the trampoline. This is a psuedo stable arrangment.

    Now imagine that someone kicks the ball, or the wind blows much harder than normal. The ball might roll up the sides of the trampoline, and then roll off the side onto the ground. This is a truly stable arrangment(eithin the bounds of this metaphor)

    Now imagine that there is an invisible field all throughout the universe, and that everywhere along it there is some amount of energy. Because this energy is roughly the same everywhere, there is no gradient to take advantage of, and therefore this field does no work.(Think trying to roll a ball around on a flat surface, the only way to do that is for you to put energy in)

    But someone or something decides to inject a ton of energy into a very small space on this field. That allows the field(or ball) to have the energy required to randomly fall into a more stable state(fall off the side of the trampoline)

    The issue is that during the process of falling into a more stable state, energy is released. Such as the ball falling off the side of the trampoline, you can harness that energy of motion. But in the case of the field, such a large amount of energy is released that it can cause other, nearby, bits of the field to fall into a more stable state. This causes a chain reaction where the entire field starts to “decay” into a more steady and stable state. This would expand outwards at the speed of energy(the speed of light, or causality) and envelop the entire universe within its sphere or influence(the observable universe from the spot where the reaction started, kinda)

    That is vacuum decay. Where what we think of as a mostly empty vacuum of space suddenly decays into a much closer to empty state. But reality and physics as we know them are built upon this semi stable field, and its removal could be massively detrimental(think the destruction of everything at a subatomic level) or it could not do anything at all. The latter is much more unlikely because something had to interact with that field to get it to decay, and if something interacts with it, its likely most everything interacts with it.