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@tripu

I read about it a while ago and I don't remember who did it. In the experiment the test subjects typed into a keyboard and a human out of their sight typed in the answers as if they were an AI.

The people who simulated the AI were coached by the guy who did the experiment and they had to swear not to reveal how they were able to escape. That's all I remember.

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@admitsWrongIfProven @mc

OMG, humanity is hanging on by a thread...

Even though this process wouldn't kill anybody it would still be pretty cruel. A lot of people would suffer because they wouldn't be able to have any kids, and people generally like to have kids so there's that.

If there was a way to push a button and have people not want to have kids anymore that would be less cruel but a lot of people would still have anxiety about the species going extinct anyway.

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@tripu

An AI "trapped" in a cage could easily escape if it is much more intelligent than it's human captors. This experiment has already been done using a simple human simulating an AI, and they escaped every time.

And there is no such thing as being completely isolated. Whoever is developing the AI is in contact with the world, so the AI is not completely isolated.

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@tripu

I don't think an AGI necessarily needs to do all of those things. General intelligence comes in lots of different forms. Not all humans have a desire to die or to lie or to hallucinate or to reproduce or to do all those other things. Many animals have a different repertoire of mental skills, some of which humans can't do.

I think AGI will follow the same path that many other technologies have. Airplanes don't flap their wings.

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@Deglassco

What does the word "dominion" mean?

"... absolute ownership; power..."

It seems like an awful name for a company whose customers are democratic governments. I would be suspicious of any government that chooses to deal with a company with a name like that.

I suspect this whole defamation case may have been Kabuki theater to mind-fuck the Liberals.

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@natharari @davep

It's like having a COVID and non-COVID section of a restaurant.

It's airborne, but some people lack object permanence and if they can't see the smoke particles or see the virus particles they think they're not there.

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@nullifidian

For reference, it took me a minute or so to figure out "fwiw" in your response.

Some of us with dyslexia just can't intuitively get abbreviations like that, unless they are very common like NATO or UK.

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@jentaub

I'm sorry Jennifer, I don't know what this refers to (I'm not familiar with your podcast).

I checked on WP and got this list:

1601–1900
1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
1738 – Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid.
1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
1783 – Three-Fifths Compromise: The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.[3]
1831 – The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
1847 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
1857 – "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
1864 – Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
1901–present
1902 – The 7.5 Mw  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800 and 2,000.
1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1915 – World War I: French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines.
1916 – World War I: During a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites, the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by the Austrian army.[4]
1930 – A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after starting during Good Friday services.[5]
1939 – Robert Menzies, who became Australia's longest-serving prime minister, is elected as leader of the United Australia Party after the death of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons.[6]
1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
1945 – Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
1945 – Italian resistance movement: In Turin, despite the harsh repressive measures adopted by Nazi-fascists, a great pre-insurrectional strike begins.[7]
1946 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
1947 – The Operation Big Bang, the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion to that time, destroys bunkers and military installations on the North Sea island of Heligoland, Germany.[8]
1949 – The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force, declaring Éire to be a republic and severing Ireland's "association" with the Commonwealth of Nations.[9]
1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
1955 – Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
1972 – East African Airways Flight 720 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing 43.[10]
1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.
1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
1988 – In Israel John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II, although the verdict is later overturned.[11]
2018 – King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini.[12]
2018 – Anti-government protests start in Nicaragua[13]
2019 – A redacted version of the Mueller report is released to the United States Congress and the public.[14]

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@justafrog @stux

"... I don't think we fully understand how a human mind works either."

That's not very reassuring to a misanthrope like me.

Actually I think I trust the AI more than I do humans

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@nullifidian

This is qoto, nobody's squeamish here. 😆

Although I guess if someone thought that word was a sexist epithet, they might have an issue with it. I don't think it's much different than "dick" in that respect, which few people have an issue with.

(Quite a few of us here are dyslexic and have difficulty with abbreviations.)

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@nullifidian

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Chess puzzle

White wins in 546 moves...

No joke.

(from chess.com/forum/view/endgames/)

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Index of Pat’s pinned toots:


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Guide to Content Warnings
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y=${x##*pid=}; echo ${y%%,*}
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A properly worn respirator stops all variants of the COVID-19 virus -- past, present and future...
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A pseudorandomly selected list of ten films to critique regarding how they treat black actors/characters
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A list of
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What's wrong with this picture?
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Once again, here's the link to that toot and thread...

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This works in the summer, too, to help keep your home cooler. When it is hot outside, cover the windows to keep the heat out and the cool temperature inside.

Also, make sure to cover windows to prevent direct sunlight from shining into your living space.

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@jgg

Yeah, that's a problem for putt-putt cars and EVs alike.

Ride a bike and don't carry a phone.

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Index of Pat’s Energy-Saving Tips
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Energy-saving tip number 1
Drive an electric car…
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Energy-saving tip number 2
Replace your oil or gas-powered furnace with a heat pump…
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Energy-saving tip number 3
Fill containers with water and keep them in your living space for thermal mass...
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Avoid driving...
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Insulate...
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Use a clothesline...
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Install solar panels…
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Energy-saving tip number 8
Choose a zero-energy home…
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Slow down...
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Invent the next breakthrough in energy…
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Save on hot water heating…
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Energy-saving tip number 12...
Cover windows with thick window coverings and mylar sheets to keep the heat in...
qoto.org/@Pat/1079009226100436
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Energy-saving tip number 13
Eat plants…
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Extra…

How to set your hot water heater to the most efficient temperature...
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Energy saving tip number 1
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Drive an electric car…

It’s best to try to avoid driving whenever you can by planning your errands, living close to work/stores, car-pooling, walking or riding a bike. But if you need to drive, an efficient electric car can save a lot of energy (and money).

Here are some other advantages to driving an electric vehicle…

- low maintenance (no regular oil changes, less wear on brakes, less heat damage, fewer moving parts, no muffler or emission system...)
- if you charge at home, you can always start with a full “tank” in the morning
- much lower cost of fuel
- much quieter ride
- it safer because electric vehicles don’t explode or spill fuel like putt-putt cars
- no smell of gasoline on your hands
- avoid the adverse health effects of petrol
- electric vehicles have more self-driving features
- no smelly exhaust fumes
- no need to start or warm up the engine, save time
- often no need to stop to refuel just charge overnight at home, at work or while you shop
- less noise pollution
- no oil leaks in your parking spot, or on the roadway, or on waterfowl
- it’s better for the planet

The prices of electric vehicles continue to fall and more used EV’s are available for those on a tighter budget. And the range of electric vehicles continues to increase. Future EV’s will have a longer range than putt-putt cars.

Electric vehicle models each have different fuel efficiencies which are designated in watt-hours per km (or per mile) like 240 Wh/km, or sometimes as miles (km) per kilowatt-hour, like 4.3 mi/kWh. Watt-hour and kilowatt-hour are measures of energy, kind of like liters (gallons) of fuel. If it’s designated as energy per distance (Wh/mi or Wh/km) you want a lower number.

(image: Alexander Megl, CC-SA-BY-4.0)

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@javifields

What if there were no games when I was 18? :ablobthinking:

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