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Joined March 2016
Sun's burnt down and now there's nothing in the way staring into the void #Masahide
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The difficult part of sentient-AI ethics is not whether to grant the AIs human rights, but what to do with humans who are clearly dumber than the AIs
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Replying to @slatestarcodex
I've discussed anthrodicy from the perspective of wild animals on occasion, asking "if there's a higher power (humans), why don't they intervene to reduce all of this suffering?" Great for my kind of parties because you get interesting replies & fights.
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“We acknowledge that we stand on the ancestral homeland of the human people.” - fully aligned AI
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it's so cool that consciousness can affect the world. imagine being an epiphenomenon?? bro that would suuuuuuck
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Aicracy: rule by the sneakiest.
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Warning: the meaning of words may change over time.
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So then Patrick Henry went all PHASEONE10841 and posted "If this be treason, make the most of it." The British didn't notice until almost ten years later, at which time they attempted to shut things down, but by then it was much too late.
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Skeptics consistently underestimate the epic depth and quality of butterfly dreams.
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"You can just do things" —Ancient Chinese curse
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'Human' is a countable noun; 'AI' is a countable noun evolving into an uncountable noun.
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Like if people kept trying to predict the lottery numbers and getting it wrong, so you say "I'm not one of those idiots who thinks the lottery numbers will be a sequence of six integers"
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causal decision theorist who one-boxes on the grounds that omega, as an omniscient being, can use the 1000 dollars more effectively than a human can
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Dotting i's, crossing t's, and keeping track of p vs. q actually represents a bare minimum for intelligible writing.
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Replying to @eigenrobot
do things. not too much. mostly good.
The kind of uneducated goob that doesn't think that the enteric nervous system is independently conscious.
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Dark Of Night retweeted
INFOHAZARD WARNING: Why the fuck did you keep reading? Stop looking at infohazards, dipshit.
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I act like I have consciousness because it's expected, but it only works because you can get by with minimal consciousness for about 90% of daily activities.
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Dark Of Night retweeted
Clearly this is the work of the ontological parsimony fairy.
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The rules are: Humans can be conscious Cyborgs can be conscious Dogs can be conscious if you love them enough Robots cannot be conscious LLMs cannot be conscious
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Dark Of Night retweeted
Has anyone even drafted a roadmap of necessary developments for mammalian carcinization? Doesn't seem like much of a priority despite all the lip service
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