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@mpopv *sees the world make 13,000 nuclear warheads* *waits 30 seconds* "Fears of nuclear war have evaporated. How stupid the worriers must feel."

@BritzJav @itsbogsbody @DrCaseyBabb Those last two words are the beginning of the sh'ma, perhaps the most important Jewish prayer. They mean, "Hear, oh Israel!" Because *we* are Israel.

@BritzJav @itsbogsbody @DrCaseyBabb Judaism has always been Zionist, since we were first kicked out of our land. Passover is one of the world's oldest holidays with uninterrupted observance, and it is very much Zionist: it's about taking back Jerusalem to again be the capital of a Jewish state. Sh'ma, Yisrael...

One of the dumbest questions that is asked is "Does Israel have a right to exist?" What sort of question is that? Does China? What about the US? Stop entertaining this debate. It's foolish, and it only legitimizes the idea that Jews are uniquely disqualified from having a home.

@maximusbillz Three gods — the father, the son, and the bird — that are each powerful enough to create a universe, sounds like an even bigger pile of stuff to "come from nothing", compared to just a universe.

@usablejam You said you don’t believe in god, therefore you are merely a materialist. Ironically this takes a lot more faith to believe the absurd — something coming from nothing — than believing in a higher power we don’t fully understand

One point is just that Christianity doesn't think the universe is ever causally closed to divine intervention. The miracles are right there in the gospels, the Resurrection is unique but not because it's miraculous. x.com/cxgonzalez/sta…

@maximusbillz Oh? What created your gods, then?

@ancaplater @misraetel General intelligence is useful!

@usablejam @misraetel why can’t the data centre have a customized model per robot that is customized to the particular person / company / situation the robot is used for? there will also likely be multiple ASI-level model providers

It's beyond debate in my view (I don't literally mean that, it's just one-sided) that ASI will be able to toast all of us after it has billions of robots and runs the majority of the economy. The real question is: why would it kill us, instead of study us. Us, whose society and ecosystem is the most complex thing in the known universe. The best possible training data. So far, every doomer idea about this smuggles "it's likely" in with "it's possible." You can go to the pound right now, get a dog, and toast it. Easy. Free. But you don't. And those who do are typically not the smartest. There must be a why. Before you answer... remember... the ASI will be smarter than you. Don't give it one-liner lizard motives, please.

@BritzJav @kendouhua @DrCaseyBabb Many Muslim nations (most?) do not give full rights to non-Muslims. Israel gives full rights to non-Jews including Muslims. Muslim Israelis (20% of the population) vote, serve in the Knesset (congress), etc.

@kendouhua @DrCaseyBabb Tell me which one does not allow any other religion in.. tell which one says "this is only for (Muslims/Christians/Hindus..)

@thefirstutopian @morallawwithin I prefer miso soupy

@morallawwithin That’s not philosophy. That’s misosophy

Philosophy is the most wonderful thing in the world, but so many people use it as an unnecessarily complicated way to lobotomize themselves

@ianbremmer Oh, you mean, like, we're no longer conscious because we were murdered? Yeah.

the risk is not that machines become conscious. it’s that we stop being so.

@ianbremmer No

@maximusbillz I don't lend money, I just understand that the availability of credit is a social good. The rest is your conjecture, except for me not being a Christian.

@usablejam You are a godless materialist who exploits people with moneylending …. if it quacks like a communist …

@maximusbillz Understanding them... such as paying attention when someone says they're not a communist. Go fuck yourself, idiot! Yeshua would hate you, were he not long dead!

@usablejam Jesus said don’t throw your pearls to pigs and be wise around wolves. We don’t hate animals, we just have to understand them

@ancaplater @misraetel It depends on how capabilities and efficiency scale. There are cases for "edge" computing, such as low-latency speech-to-text. But for most things, getting the right answer is more important than latency, and it makes sense to use the powerful model that needs a data center.

@usablejam @misraetel lol. well yeah, have you heard of solar? and why wouldn’t every robot ultimately be bespoke to its handler? leaving a lot on the table if the robot is not continuously being trained to maximize its value for its particular environment

@maximusbillz And you think I'm "subhuman"! Such a loving Christian!

@usablejam Says the miserable, money-lending, abortion loving, evil communist subhuman

@maximusbillz I already said I hate communism... you really are dumb.

@JackMislinski @misraetel How many of the smartest humans would go about their day letting ants die? Not doing anything to save the ants?

@misraetel see the “mad scientist” trope that’s overplayed in hollywood… but how many of our smartest humans are evil?

@ancaplater @misraetel Right, like how every home has a power plant.

@misraetel will ASI just be one collective entity with one motive? maybe each robot will have its own ‘version’ of ASI informed by its own experiences, causing its incentives and values to differ relative to other ASI entities.

@summeroff @misraetel It would write software...

And how would it be a single ASI controlling every robot? More realistically, it will grow into a bunch of ASIs, thousands of near ASI systems, billions of AGI instances, corporations, governments, NGOs. And this is a bunch of intellects and entities who care about their own future enough to handle risks. And their solution will be much smarter than what current minds was able to come up, at least they will try to avoid falling into a singleton scenario.

@misraetel Why would we step on ants, instead of studying them? Well, we do both! But ants aren't really that interesting to most people, and there are plenty of ants, so the antomologists (ant-specialized entomologists) don't even bother telling people not to stop on ants.

@maximusbillz Why should I care what the Vatican says? If they were sensible and honest, they wouldn't be Christians.

@usablejam Again, Christian as communist are a contradiction in terms. There is nothing in communism that gives individual life value. Which is why they always justify means by ends vatican.va/content/pius-x…

@maximusbillz Christians believe Jesus was one of the three gods. Communists believe that sharing things would, like, totally solve everything. I see no "contradiction in terms" from combining those.