gandalf_der_12te @ gandalf_der_12te @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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That would be true if the world is hollow.

But we know it is not.

Yeah I think the human brain is a vehicle for "mind virus" which is script and ideas.

Are you interested in this from a philosophical perspective or from a practical perspective?

From a philosophical perspective:

It depends on what you mean by "intelligent". People have been thinking about this for millennia and have come up with different answers. Pick your preference.

From a practical perspective:

This is where it gets interesting. I don't think we'll have a moment where we say "ok now the machine is intelligent". Instead, it will just slowly and slowly take over more and more jobs, by being good at more and more tasks. And just so, in the end, it will take over a lot of human jobs. I think people don't like to hear it due to the fear of unemployedness and such, but I think that's a realistic outcome.

What could possibly happen except everything?

This applies to your dating life too, take your chances 😘

You might also be interested in the Panopticon.

In humans, there's good things and there's bad things. But most of it is actually in-between.

If you take out everything bad, that satisfies you for the moment. And then you go on, looking for further progress. You take out the almost-bad, the somewhat-bad. In the end, it leaves only the good. But that is not enough for a human to live on.

Constant surveillance leads to burnout and extremely high stress-levels.

you're right to have these feelings. humans together strong.

the fuck? it's a nice picture, just let it be. it's IMHO a better image than many hand-drawn ones.

Currently in a very inter-disciplinary field where the different mathematicians have their own language which has to be translated back into first software, then hardware. It’s so confusing at first till you spend 30 minutes on wikipedia to realize they’re just using an esoteric term to describe something you’ve used forever.

Yeah, this happens a lot. I studied math and I often got the impression that when you read other researcher's work, they describe the exact same thing that you have already heard about, but in a vastly different language. I wonder how many re-inventions and re-namings there are of any concept simply because people can't figure out that this thing has already been researched into. It really happens a lot, where 5 people discovered something, but gave them 5 different names.

Oh i would say "ring" is in fact quite a descriptive term.

Apparently, in older german, "ringen" meant "to make progress of some sort/to fight for something". And a ring has two functions: addition and multiplication. These are the foundational functions that you can use to construct polynomials, which are very important functions. You could look at functions as a machine where you put something in and get something out.

In other words, you put something into a function, the function internally "makes some progress", and spits out a result. That is exactly what you can do with a "ring".

So it kinda makes sense, I guess.

A big reason why newspapers use so many filler-phrases and redundancy and just don't get to the point is because journalists often get paid for how much they write; The consequence is obviously: filler-words.

Getting paid for "how much they write" may be implicit. For example, the boss might look at what the employees produce and say "ok this employee is good because they wrote 30 pages, this employee is bad because they wrote only 5". Even though they might get a fixed salary/month, the one that writes few pages might get fired.

I hadn't read it before, and I thought it was interesting, and the article is still as relevant as it was back then. I thought many others missed it too. It's also pretty well written.

People are in denial. AI is going to take programmer's jobs away, and programmers perceive AI as a natural enemy and a threat. That is why they want to discredit it in any way possible.

Honestly, I've used chatGPT for a hundred tasks, and it has always resulted in acceptable, good-quality work. I've never (!) encountered chatGPT making a grave or major error in any of the questions that I asked it (physics and material sciences).

It's less cold than it looks, i've tried that.

Snow is an excellent thermal insulator, and the air in that chamber can be quite warm, like 15°C, without really melting the snow.

You do deserve it. Everybody deserves a stable living condition :)

Yes, some people have no concept of truth. They say whatever is useful to themselves. More news at 11.

It depends on the country. There should be a local law in every country that says who can vote.

because it's still relevant/true, obviously.