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Comment · 1 year ago
I like the threat of factory destruction. It adds to the flavour, and makes designing the factory not just about pure optimisation
Comment · 1 year ago
Depends how much you want to avoid caged hens
Comment · 1 year ago
Food culture has (in general) moved on in the UK from that period!
Comment · 1 year ago
Better thought of as an immune modulator than suppressant. Ultimately it’s a blunt tool when we lack more specific agents. Yes, it will have risks including infection, but the benefits may (or may not) outweigh the risks.
Comment · 1 year ago
In your opinion which services are most worthwhile hosting on a rpi? I’m interested in it, but life always gets in the way.
Comment · 1 year ago
I would think it would not lead to a transfer of consciousness and instead just make a copy of you. I recommend black mirror, it deals with one technological change (usually) and shows how it can be dystopian (usually, there are occasional happy endings). Each episode is standalone.
Comment · 1 year ago
Out of interest, what do you think would happen to your sense of subjective experience on sci-fi upload? And secondly have you watched black mirror? In that show they show many great ways there the end of death is just the beginning of eternal techno suffering.
Comment · 1 year ago
That’s is true and a reasonable point. But looking in This thread you can see there has been this reaction from quite a few.
Comment · 1 year ago
I agree, it’s just more about the intent than anything else, like boasting about your amazing new job when someone has recently been made redundant, just before Christmas.
Comment · 1 year ago
Can I just say what a dick move it was to do this as a 12 days of Christmas. I mean to be honest I agree with the arguments this isn’t as impressive as my initial impression, but they clearly intended it to be shocking/a show of possible AGI, which is rightly scary.

It feels so insensitive to that right before a major holiday when the likely outcome is a lot of people feeling less secure in their career/job/life.

Thanks again openAI for showing us you don’t give a shit about actual people.

Comment · 1 year ago
Perhaps we will return to meeting in real life. Physical presence probably has a few decades left before robots are indistinguishable from humans
Comment · 1 year ago
In which case you may like how it’s done in the UK. it’s technically debt but in essence works as a graduate tax. The government pays for your education with a loan. You then only pay back 9% of your income over a certain income threshold. You do this until you pay back the loan or 30-40 years have passed. So in practice this is a graduate tax.
Comment · 2 years ago
It could be argued that a similar level of caution should be applied to artificial neural networks. I always find the discrepancy in application of ethics between biology and technology to be an interestingly wide gulf.
Comment · 2 years ago
On searching for the mentioned model “bad one” it sounds like it’s provided by a British company “Brit alliance”, although these may be modified robots from another company.
Comment · 2 years ago
But interestingly also a very high genetic factor with 90% of identical twins both having T2DM (which is greater than that of type 1 which if I remember correctly is 40%)

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