E099: PROGRAMMER IS OVERLY POLITE
Melllvar
Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
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You don’t go out looking for a job dressed like that? On a weekday?
16·9 days agoStart saving for old age now. It might seem like a long way off, and you might not have much money right now to begin with, but being young and poor is way better than being old and poor.
4·10 days agoI sold gmail invitations on ebay.
3·14 days agoMan it sure is crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.
2·26 days agoThe problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it’s bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.
otherwise we would just switch it off
If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.
What, am I meeting the Pope or something?
A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?
2·29 days agoPirate King: HE DID?!? … oh… oh, yes so he did… I was there.
27·2 months agoSorry, I lost the world’s smallest violin. This is the best I can do: 🖕
The modlog says for being a bot.
The problem is that you’re using Windows 95.
Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you’d like to highlight?
Ctrl-F“plato”Required reading
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There’s a movie where the president (actually a decoy) fakes a stroke during a speech to Congress.
Yet Trump can declassify documents by thought alone.
It may be possible…
It may not be necessary…
What, no avocado toast?
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