@DrinkOutTheBox @Devon_Eriksen_ @AnEriksenWife well, don't know the answer to your question, but must admit I've done it too. 😏
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Funny side note: You know how on an iPhone you can hold your finger on the space key and use it like a mouse pad to move the cursor around on the screen?
Yeah, well I just tried to slide the cursor over to the “Reply” icon…
Then I wondered, is this what dumb people are like all the time? Is that why so many dumb people are afraid that an LLM is imminently approaching sentience capable of doing everyone’s jobs simultaneously thereby rendering humanity obsolete?
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A few possible counterpoints here.
First of all, "cancer" isn't one thing. It's a blanket catch-all term for all the ways a cell can go wrong which cause unrestricted growth. So, beating cancer actually means finding better and better ways to detect and remove those cells.
This process is already happening and has been happening for some time. And unless democrats win a lot of elections and bust us back to the preindustrial age, there will certainly be a time where we can look back and say "we've beaten cancer", because cancer is a minor inconvenience requiring a house call and an injection, there's not going to be one moment where that suddenly happens. No great breakthrough, no eureka moment, just thousands of little inventions.
But that's not the central question. The central question is "how much could a hypothetical AI that is smarter than the smartest human help with that?"
The answer is certainly not zero. IQ matters. If it didn't, the third world would not be the third world.
But if we assume that IQ matters infinitely, and our hypothetical superintelligence could beat all cancers with the flick of a metaphorical wrist, then that idea carries the hidden assumption that intelligence is the bottleneck in this whole process.
I'm not sure we can just jump to that conclusion.
Intelligence is the ability to analyze and understand data. Which means the quality of your thinking is only as good as the quality of your data.
Let's take a different hypothetical which I think will make this more clear: Could a superintelligence solve physics?
For that one, I would answer "no". Because in physics, hypotheses are derived with math, and then verified by experiment.
And as we have recently seen, it is very easy for physicists as a group to come up with infinity varieties of string theory and other such things, hypotheticals which explain everything... but then fail when experimentally tested.
The standard practice in modern physics is to move the goalposts and apply for another grant.
So how would super-AI "solve" physics? No matter how brilliant it was, it would also have to test its ideas, requiring very complex and expensive hardware to do so.
In physics, that's the bottleneck.
Now, would super-AI, acting in other areas, transform the economy and make those experiments cheaper?
Yes, maybe. But that's beside the point. The point is that physics cannot be solved with intelligence alone. Which might be true in other areas as well.
Now, some people object to this line of thinking. They protest that a super-AI could run experiments in simulation.
Well, okay, that's great for doing engineering in areas where the relevant physics is already understood. But to verify hypotheses in fundamental physics, you would need a model that simulates what you are trying to test, which would only be possible if you already had the understanding you are trying to achieve.
Otherwise, the simulation would be like the string theory hypothesis... internally consistent, but not necessarily connected to reality in any meaningful way.
Life is an IQ test, yes. But life is not a test of IQ alone.
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Miller's take that "Superintelligence" won't cure cancer and death is going to age really badly. Firstly, it's wrong by definition. "Superintelligence" means an AI that that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in all domains. That is literally the definition of "Superintelligence". So it must greatly exceed humans at curing cancer specifically. Presumably Miller thinks that humans are capable of curing cancer in principle (otherwise, why do we devote human researchers to this task?), therefore by definition any "Superintelligence" must be able to cure cancer. Secondly, Miller starts bounding the capabilities of "Superintelligence" by comparing it to contemporary LLM-based systems. There are two ways this could go wrong: - either LLM-based-systems are not capable of curing cancer, in which case they will never achieve "Superintelligence". Or, sufficient improvements may yield LLM-based systems that do actually cure cancer in which case they might make it to "Superintelligence" (or might not, if they are bad at some other task). I think people like Geoffrey Miller should just stop talking about "Superintelligence" if they are going to abuse the term like this. But set aside the definitional games: maybe AI systems that we can actually build will be bad at biomedical science? This is certainly the case today. Modern LLM-based systems are good at coding and at commonsense and generic research tasks, but not that good at anything else. LLMs work well when they get fast feedback. But, so do humans. Anyone sufficiently intelligent can get good at math and coding. Getting good at biology requires a lot of equipment. We haven't really connected modern AIs to automated labs yet. When we do, I do expect significant progress just as we saw progress when we connected AI to the internet. In a way, LLMs are just the result of connecting the preexisting AI stuff to large scale data. We already had neural language models in 2015. I used to work on language models, just before LLMs took off. Small language models are not impressive or that useful. So I have seen a full cycle of this playing out over a decade. x.com/gmiller/status…
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I want to take a moment to say this real quick. I want to thank all my followers. Small, medium, and large for standing up for me yesterday when I was being attacked left and right.
I was accused of being a bot and using automation. (Even though I do spaces, and I dont use automated responses. You can tell by how many errors I have at times. Plus, I am not tech savvy, so I'm not sure how to do it.)
I was accused of using a team to run my account. (Nope, sweet cheeks, just me)
I was accused of taking money and working for foreign governments. (Nope, stay at home mom. America First)
I was accused of engagement groups. Nope, again, just me. I repost who I want when I want. (This also counts as your posts, as does replies)
My looks were attacked. Don't care. Somebody is trying to dox me again. It's not cool. People posting impersonations of me and acting like that is ME. It's not. Making fun of personal stories I have shared. Oh, well.
So many horrible things said. Yet, to my surprise, my followers stood beside me. I'm used to tackling the BS on my own. So, for every single person that I didn't get to thank or see, THANK YOU.
I never expected that, and I truly appreciate you all.
You guys are what makes X enjoyable. The rest well... they can suck democrat donkey balls.
Thanks for listening to My Sass talk.
Toodles. 👋
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@perseverare1776 Frankly if there hadn't been so many posts about it on X, I wouldn't have even known it was on since I don't watch the mainstream media. Definitely didn't watch any of it.
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Remember when the Oscars were actually good?
EVERYBODY used to watch them, the nostalgia is bitter sweet as we can never go back!
Did you watch tonight?
I passed 100%!!!
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Were the 1980s THE best decade for movies in American history? Yes. Absolutely 🙌 Why is GenX different? The reasons are countless, but this is just one of them A trip down memory lane best with sound on 😉
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The last bit of our internet is bleeding out, so I am writing this here while I can still force this VPN connection through to the free world. If I die, I will do so with a smile, knowing the enemies of my people and my country died with me. And I want the world to know, no matter what the circumstances, any innocent civilian blood spilled in this war is entirely on the hands of the terrorist Islamic regime occupying Iran. I want the world to know that to us, this is a rescue mission, not a war. I want you to be our voice until Iran is free. The regime is doing everything it can to blindfold us and the world by jamming satellite feeds and strangling the internet. Please remember, no matter how many of us die, the regime is to blame. But if you cannot accept that sentiment, how about this: They slaughtered over 36,000 Iranians in 8 to 12 hours spread over two nights in January alone, and they haven't stopped killing us. You want the reality of the last two weeks of this war? Nearly 5,000 people have died. Over 4,400 of them are the regime's own military, IRGC, Basij, and government personnel getting systematically eradicated. And the innocent civilians? Around 480 have been killed. Why did they die? Because this cowardly terrorist syndicate intentionally embeds its military bases right next to our elementary schools and residential blocks. They use our children and our families as literal human shields while their commanders scurry into the dark. Why do you think the regime actively cuts its own citizens off from information during a war, when information means life and ignorance means death? They are not doing it for our safety. They are plunging us into a digital blackout to hide their own collapsing ranks, and to ensure we cannot coordinate the uprising that will finish them. And look around why don't they have any public air raid sirens or bomb shelters for us? Because for 47 years, they only poured our national wealth into building deep underground bunkers to protect their ballistic missiles and their clerics, leaving the Iranian people completely exposed on the surface to burn. Not only have they been shooting people who take videos of military crash sites, but they have even executed at least one man right in the middle of this chaos. They are actively threatening the Iranian people on state media, telling us they will take revenge on all of us for this war and for the January uprising. They even mass-texted every single one of us that if we dare to come out again, they will commit a massacre that makes January look like nothing. But guess what? None of us give a single damn about their threats. The moment our time comes the moment the call is given to us we will take to the streets to finish what we started and take our country back. I beg you to be our voice and support our leader, @PahlaviReza. We wrote his name on the walls with our blood, and over 36K of our fallen heroes gave their lives asking for his return to the country and chanting his name. Do not step on their blood by standing against him and the future freedom of Iran. We know the way. We know where we want to go, and we know who can take us there. One nation, one flag, one leader for the transition to a secular, democratic Iran. With all that said, I will try to keep my connection to the outside world alive for as long as possible to be the voice of my oppressed people. Long live Iran.🇮🇷✌️
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Do you stand with Sen. Tuberville, or is he taking it too far?
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Checking out something.
If you can see this comment, like it do something!
Feel like I’m not showing up again.
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@KJisms @MAGAShagster and even Grok can take a full minute or so to think about it. Sometimes i just don't have that much time.
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@MAGAShagster You can hit the grok button on anyone's profile page and get a quick rundown too.
Tough to know who to follow back, it's a jungle out there....
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When I follow back, I scroll looking for key words in their bio like America first, law enforcement, military, Christian, or indications of senior citizen like grandfather or even family people if you have nothing in your Bio and haven't received a follow back, I apologize but I just don't have time to research who you are.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
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@MAGAShagster @rauh_mark2A I first check to see where their account is located. Lol
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@MAGAShagster I hear ya. Some people don't put anything useful in there. Too busy?
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@silentblossom_ absolutely! actually i think all. Islamists not just "extremists" should be deported
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🚨Do you agree that Islamist extremists who refuse to assimilate, chant “Death to America,” or burn our flag should be deported immediately ?
A. Yes, absolutely
B. No
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Something that goes well inside of a grilled cheese sandwich
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