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I work in a medium sized company. “Everyone” uses Teams. The software engineers use slack.

One one hand, it sucks having to monitor two services.

On another hand, it is nice having “corporate bullshit” constrained to teams.

The styles of communications / culture are very different between the two systems.

Can you prove you are not merely mimicking consciousness?

At some point mimicking a thing becomes the thing.

Some of your intended audience will not read further. Which is the point about trust.

You’ve got something cool to show, and a reader is telling you an impediment to your sharing.

Fix your description. 99% less YAML!

+1 for Ditto. I think it is out of updates, but continue to work well.

Wait… large customers move in and your rate goes up?

Forget about it. These AI companies could really help themselves by subsidizing local rates. Imagine if a large AI datacenter moved in AND your rate dropped by $70!

Everyone would be singing their praises.

I fear there is a strong sentiment that people are somehow special and magical and AI will always be a pale comparison.

The truth is likely that people are simple heuristical machines. There are already studies that strongly suggest our consciousness is a story our brains make up and we don’t really know why we do some things.

My fear is by rejecting the idea that AIs might in-fact become as capable as people, because “people are awesome!” We will be blind to real danger. Because of our hubris.

It will be interesting to see if LLMs “evolve” importance as they run out of ram and storage to think.

For humans with limited space, “Importance” is an output of a first pass “of the available infinite amount of information, what do I need to consider to solve this problem”. And it’s not necessarily a good algorithm. People misidentify “importance” all the time.

It doesn’t matter if this specific idea has flaws. The ASI will have lots more and plenty of patience to try them out.

Maybe it lies about a vaccines effectiveness. Maybe it’s not really a vaccine.

Maybe it cheats at an election and gets someone hired that will likely unknowingly help the ASI.

Maybe it strings together a thousand ideas that all look safe taken one by one, but cause effects that interact to cause massive problems.

You can’t imagine what it’s capable of. You simply aren’t smart enough. No one is.

If the president has a remote way to launch nukes, that implies the existence of a broadcast signal that can be received. The signal can be emulated. Perhaps ASI helps a kid develop a science fair project dealing with radio waves. The ASI provides instructions to follow. Kid pushes button.

It doesn’t matter if this specific idea has flaws. The ASI will have lots more and plenty of patience to try them out.

Maybe it lies about a vaccines effectiveness. Maybe it’s not really a vaccine.

Maybe it cheats at an election and gets someone hired that will likely unknowingly help the ASI.

Maybe it strings together a thousand ideas that all look safe taken one by one, but cause effects that interact to cause massive problems.

You can’t imagine what it’s capable of. You simply aren’t smart enough. No one is.

Sun Crossing-Rocket

I reread my comment. Nowhere did I suggest countries don’t defend themselves. Nor did I say we shouldn’t make war.

We should minimize war and try other alternatives. And maybe try diplomacy and longer term thinking. Plus governments should value the governed.

But countries and people always have the right to defend themselves from attackers as they see fit.

Back in the 2000s MS agreed to port Office and Internet Explorer to the Mac. This was a good move for both companies. Bill Gates appeared on screen during an Apple Conference to talk with Steve. Huge boos. Steve had to work the crowd back from the ledge.

Then Office and IE were ported. It was so weird running Word on a Mac. It was a good port too. They did a good job of embracing Mac UI ideas. I found the Mac Word better than Win Word.

I was kind of new to the Mac back then.

I imagine Apple donated a bunch of early OS 10 machines to MS for development. I wonder if the MS Mac Dev team was a pariah at MS.

Comments like that aren’t “sleepwalking”. They are complicit.

He IS doing it. He could choose to do better.

He doesn’t get a pass.

War is bad. And our reality isn’t some unchanging truth. Our actions and choices, or apathy, help shape our reality.

It is not childish to aspire to be better.

> The overlap in the locations of Pokemon Go Player data and any active Drone heavy theaters of war is a tiny sliver.

Currently active theaters. And now there are detailed locations of our cities. We might not get killbots today but we will get pacificationbots.

The law doesn’t define behavior. It describes behaviors.

Those behaviors can change by giving the doers more power. If a bureaucrat is trouble, and the doers can cause the bureaucrat to be fired, to doers will have more power.

The doers can fire the system 5 people.

Too big to fail. Lol.

Apparently, if your not cool enough to know how to get in the club, you are not cool enough to be in the club.

What is hue zero? That’s green right? Because green is such a common color? Or maybe it’s blue.

No no. You see we need to get rid of conventional commits so AI can make commits easier.

I am going to put in a plug for “Which” a command tab replacement that lets you, among other things, cycle between windows like alt-tab.

Bingo.

That is a far more eloquent way to express my word salad.

My sarcasm wasn’t thick enough.

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When I was a child, I lived in a neighborhood. Every week a garbage truck picked up the house hold trash.

5 guys were on that truck. 1 driver and 4 guys that actually lifted up various shaped trash cans and dumped them into the truck.

Today I live in an apartment complex. 100 families take their trash to the compactor. 1 guy in a garbage truck comes once a week to collect the compacted refuse.

I wonder what happened to the other 4 guys. 80% of the garbage collecting labor… freed up to do something of higher value.

Maybe they cured cancer.

If we understand how a system “emulates” consciousness then we declare it an emulation. If we don’t quite understand how a system exhibits consciousness then we can say it might be conscious.

Basically, we need to leave room for the universal answer (God) to fit into the definition.

If we ever scientifically figure out how consciousness arises in our brains, I think we will have a bunch of very depressed people on our hands. If the truth isn’t met with flat out hostile denial. I fear any answer that doesn’t leave room for God will be rejected.

Since we have the source code to AI, and thus a Godless understanding of how it works, AI will NEVER be deemed “conscious”.

No one who learned how to correctly type.

The “correct way” is garbage. Maybe useful for reaching 300 WPM. But not useful for having usable wrists.

As a coder, the “correct way“ isn’t all that useful anyway.

There are a lot of ads where you are “empowered” to choose between provided choices.

“Manage your privacy your way! Simply sign in to choose what is right for you!”

Nah, I am going to use something else.

I want to use full screen apps. But they are not in the command-tab order. So… no good.