@Jason_April

Politically independent maker of music, art, prose, and code. Accidental polymath. Fight the ruling class, not each other.

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The United States is by far the greatest threat to world peace. brilliantmaps.com/threat-to-…

Which Country Is The Greatest Threat to World Peace? - Brilliant Maps

Map created by Joe HammerThe map shows the results of a 2013 (pre-Trump) WIN/Gallup International survey asking people which country they felt was the

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The vast majority of social media is bad faith engagement bait.
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Either AI becomes so intelligent that it breaks free from human control, or it doesn't Only the first scenario can be called superintelligence.
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What if the governments and companies that want to keep AI out of the hands of bad actors *are* the bad actors?
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Voting Blue isn’t harm reduction for the people around the world who are on the receiving end of US imperialism
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Humans are made of particles following probability distributions and therefore can't be conscious.
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This is why I'm not a materialist. Not everything is reducible. Not even turtles.
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Why would ASI stay on Earth? There are far, far more resources in outer space.
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We're fools if we think we'll be able to control ASI.
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I wonder if it doesn't matter who develops ASI because the result will be the same.
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"AI is just math." Your mind is gonna be blown when you learn how the entire universe and everything in it works.
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It's all math, people.
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Fun Fact: 99% of fun facts are neither fun nor facts.
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It doesn't matter what Stephen King wrote. If we wanted the book version, we'd read the book. You'll enjoy films a whole lot more if you stop comparing them to the source material.
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You're not a real artist unless you make all the materials yourself. Oh, you drew something on paper? Did you make the paper? Did you make the pencil? No? Not real art, then, because you're relying on other people's labor. They made it just as much as you did.
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And if you're influenced by other artists, you should pay them. It's their art, too, even if it's just 0.00001% of your style.
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I bet you gave no credit to the people at the factory who made your eraser. Shameful.
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If something isn't conscious until it's proven that it is, then nothing is conscious. There is no way to prove consciousness.
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If you claim AI isn't conscious and you don't need to provide reason or evidence, then I can claim that *you're* not conscious, and I don't need to provide reason or evidence. You're justifying intellectual laziness.
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Over half the population takes a psychotropic drug daily.
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