yeahiknow3 @ yeahiknow3 @lemmings.world

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That’s fine, but most people (engaged in this discussion) aren’t interested in an illusion. When they say AGI, they mean an actual mind capable of rationality (which requires sensitivity and responsiveness to reasons).

Calculators, LLMs, and toasters can’t think or understand or reason by definition, because they can only do what they’re told. An AGI would be a construct that can think for itself. Like a human mind, but maybe more powerful. That requires subjective understanding (intuitions) that cannot be programmed. For more details on why, see Gödel's incompleteness theorems. We can’t even axiomatize mathematics, let alone human intuitions about the world at large. Even if it’s possible we simply don’t know how.

Reasoning literally requires consciousness because it’s a fundamentally normative process. What computers do isn’t reasoning. It’s following instructions.

Hilarious.

The only way to create AGI is by accident. I can’t adequately stress how much we haven’t the first clue how consciousness works (appropriately called The Hard Problem). I don’t mean we’re far, I mean we don’t even have a working theory — just half a dozen untestable (if fascinating) hypotheses. Hell, we can’t even agree on whether insects have emotions (probably not?) let alone explain subjective experience.

No, it is not.

Religion is a monstrous evil.

A better analogy for AI is the discovery of asbestos or the invention of single-use plastics. Terrible fucking idea.

IQ is a very good indicator of cognitive abilities. It’s a poor indicator of kindness, morality, or honesty.

Americans are so weird about IQ. Yes, indeed, some brains work better than others — by avoiding lead poisoning or traumatic brain injuries, for instance, and by reading books, pursuing higher education, and enjoying a fulfilling social environment.

The photo is stock. They’re in their 40s so it could be lead. The US twin experienced multiple serious concussions, so that alone might explain a 16 point IQ difference.

How dare some people make an obviously correct moral decision that highlights my own inadequacies?

Seriously though, I’m not even slightly vegan. I’m just also not a total fucking moron.

We should do one for regular diets where it goes from ignorantly contributing to animal suffering to torturing them yourself and then dying of diabetes and colon cancer.

The supreme kangaroo court of the United States. SKCOTUS.

It would be so easy to tackle the offshoring of US tax funds.

1. Implement better tax laws.
2. Billionaires attempt to leave the country with their ill-gotten booty.
3. Send Seal Team Six after them like Bin Laden. Drop bombs if you have to. The word “billionaire” should be synonymous with “terrorist.”
4. Problem solved.

The fun part is we can’t even fuck up our image on the world stage because Trump already did that.

Miscarriages account for around 50% of pregnancies, though some studies put them as high as 75%, since most people don’t realize they’ve miscarried if it’s early enough.

The subhumanity of forced-birthers is unimaginable. Literally. We cannot imagine what state of mind could produce this anti-abortion obsession, because no sane mind would ever do so.

Whereas all corporations are fundamentally concerned with the bottom line, you should shop at those whose actions are ostensibly less evil. Even if Target’s commitment to these issues in the past was merely performative, that performance should be rewarded.

I thought it was because they were all dying and fertilizing the soil with their corpses.

That’s hilarious.

Anyone know? Super curious.