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Sun's burnt down and
now there's nothing in the way
staring into the void
#Masahide
Dark Of Night retweeted
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
Dark Of Night retweeted
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.
Dark Of Night retweeted
“We acknowledge that we stand on the ancestral homeland of the human people.” - fully aligned AI
Dark Of Night retweeted
it's so cool that consciousness can affect the world. imagine being an epiphenomenon?? bro that would suuuuuuck
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.
Dark Of Night retweeted
Replying to @robertskmiles @tszzl
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"
Dark Of Night retweeted
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
Dotting i's, crossing t's, and keeping track of p vs. q actually represents a bare minimum for intelligible writing.
The kind of uneducated goob that doesn't think that the enteric nervous system is independently conscious.
Dark Of Night retweeted
INFOHAZARD WARNING:
Why the fuck did you keep reading?
Stop looking at infohazards, dipshit.
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.
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











