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[–] aio@awful.systems 15 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Possibly the worst misunderstanding of quantum mechanics I've ever seen. I have no idea how anyone managed to convince themselves that the laws of physics are somehow different for conscious observers.

[–] aio@awful.systems 15 points 5 months ago

don't mention skull sizes for 5 minutes challenge

[–] aio@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't Heidegger a Nazi, and his works famously avoid any mention of the Holocaust?

[–] aio@awful.systems 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
[–] aio@awful.systems 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Dan Luu's "A discussion of discussions on AI bias", about techbros trying to gaslight the rest of the world into thinking ML models don't have problems

[–] aio@awful.systems 16 points 6 months ago

Why when we look into the stars do we not see a sign of life anywhere else? Has life not emerged yet or has it wiped itself out? With what? Nukes? AI? Synthetic viruses made with AI? Who knows…

entertaining this awful sci-fi schtick for a moment - if every civilization is wiped out by "superintelligent AI", how come you can't look through a telescope and see signs of artificial life? in this fantasy world shouldn't planets taken over by paperclip factories be even more conspicuous?

[–] aio@awful.systems 23 points 6 months ago

value is when line go up

[–] aio@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago

Analyzing our data we conclude with 95% confidence that within a decade the Dyson Sphere Any% TAS time will be reduced below 55 seconds (± 1E10 years).

[–] aio@awful.systems 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

"[massive deficiency] isn't a flaw of the program because it's designed to have that deficiency"

it is a problem that it plagiarizes, how does saying "it's designed to plagiarize" help????

[–] aio@awful.systems 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

The normal way to reproduce information which can only be found in a specific source would be to cite that source when quoting or paraphrasing it.

[–] aio@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

I thought Penrose was a smart physicist, the hell is he doing peddling this.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21

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