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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."
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usablejam🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱
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@2Philosophical_ Thank you! Have you given up your dumb faith, then?
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@usablejam Sounds like you’ve really given it some careful, sober consideration.
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My brief defense of the ontological argument, in commemoration of the feast of St. Anselm. People love to hate on the argument, but it’s much easier to hate on it than to show that it’s unsound.
open.substack.com/pub/reflection…
Bishop Robert Barron@BishopBarron
Today is the feast of St. Anselm, one of the great geniuses of the theological tradition. In his “Cur Deus Homo,” he offered an explanation of the cross that beguiles theological minds to this day. But he is most famous, of course, for what came to be called the “ontological argument” for God's existence. Brilliant people have criticized it (Aquinas and Kant most famously), but equally brilliant people have defended it (Bonaventure, Descartes, Charles Hartshorne, and Alvin Plantinga to name a few). Einstein's colleague Kurt Gödel famously advocated it, arguing that a supremely perfect being must have all possible perfections, including that of necessary existence. Therefore, we can conclude from the very notion of God that God necessarily exists. Perhaps we could honor St. Anselm today by taking the time to think deeply about “that than which nothing greater can be thought.”
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@KeyOsc @prerat It would be hard, potentially, to have something strong enough to win, but torque-limited so that it can't hurt you. In grappling you pursue positions that allow you to break the opponent with very little effort.
You'd just end up teaching it to be careful and respect the tap!
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i think it would be illustrative to build a BJJ alphazero that runs inside a robot who is a bit weaker than you
getting physically out-"smarted" by something whose robo muscles arent even as strong as you seems more evocative than losing to a chess engine
idk if possible tho
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@CathPoaster @prerat You can try, but they can be dangerously uncoordinated during orgasms.
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@prerat Of course it's possible.
If AI doesn't kill us all, my glorious vision of war in the future is air-dropping a robot army approximately the size of the belligerent's population. And then just... grab everybody.
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@gremin43537 @TrueSlazac That is, if data centers don't destroy every atom of oxygen and hydrogen in the universe, first.
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@usablejam @TrueSlazac We have nothing to speak of you are propagandized history will remember you as a coward and a fool
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The main reason anti-AI people online annoy me isn't because of misplaced morals, it's the delusion
How can you think a tool used by over half of businesses that is very obviously a productivity boost could be a bubble that will disappear in a few years?
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what's funny in most atheist vs theist arguments is I often see theists come with more epistemic humility
doubt & humility is explicitly baked into the faith! it asks you to place trust before full comprehension. it expects you to doubt! it's normal!
yet many atheists act as if their claims come with no metaphysical/axiomatic priors
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@SHL0MS "Oh, you just want me to not drive us off a cliff because you're *lazy*."
I would wager that Swartz would have changed his tune by now. He would have read more than you have, and thought more clearly, I'd bet.
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@unlv59 @AlecStapp @wxmann The cop thinks that would require watching until it is stolen, so you have to explain the algorithm.
When explaining the algorithm, why not mention its name?
One must sometimes (...often) use strategies for dealing with thin-skinned idiots, but the idiots aren't in the right.
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@AlecStapp @wxmann You don’t have to use the term “binary search”
I know you can’t resist b/c it makes you nerds feel special but you guys could try talking/acting like normal humans for once.
“Just look for when the bike isn’t there anymore” would work better and is what a human would say.
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Just remembered the story about a computer scientist who had his bike stolen and tried to explain binary search to a cop
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@prerat I think he usually suggests that it will kill us first. It's not like we would just stand by while it did something that would kill us as a side-effect.
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just realized something
yudkowsky's current example of specific mechanism of x risk is the ai builds so many factories and power plants that the oceans boil
literally it's climate change that kills us
literally "ai wrecks the environment"
literally it uses up ALL the water
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@gremin43537 @TrueSlazac Data centers don't use very much water, and the water they use is heated a little, not polluted or destroyed.
For the record, I feel terrible for the Palestinians who want peace but suffer due to the wars started by their countrymen.
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@usablejam @TrueSlazac You have an isreali flag of course you dont care about other peoples rights
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@gremin43537 @TrueSlazac Ah; predictably, the person who believes every false thing also believes every false thing about Israel...
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@Astrophysicslad OK, but what's the movie about? You've described an opening scene.
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Has no one in Hollywood ever explored a movie about the Voyager spacecraft, where an alien civilization discovers the Golden Record, deciphers its messages, and follows it back to Earth to make contact with humanity?
That would be absolutely incredible to watch.
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@MarioNawfal 100% of the buildings on Earth were damaged by sunlight last year
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90-100% displaced
3.4% killed, 8% injured
77% face acute food insecurity
92% of buildings damaged/destroyed
93% of schools damaged/destroyed
61 million tons of debris
4% of agriculture undamaged
$71 billion needed to rebuild
And some people still don't call this genocide?
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@gremin43537 @TrueSlazac What do you think data centers do to water?
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@TrueSlazac "Misplaced morals" how about we make AI not pollute and drain drinking water before it is scaled even more? Fuck you
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@VerminusM \begin{bmatrix}
1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 1
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@Shubinsky @bzogrammer No, the world's most complicated machines are cells. Try to build a bacterium without starting with a bacterium.
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@bzogrammer You need the world’s most complex machine and the world’s most complicated supply chains and factories to build the former, while the latter is easily mass produced with microscopic inputs, energy, and machinery.
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These two things are about the same size
"2nm" transistor gate pitch : 42nm
Flagellum motor : 45nm
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Reading ancient philosophy is so disorienting because one page will state views that are beautiful and edifying, but then the very next page will justify those views with the absolute worst arguments you've ever seen in your life.
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@alhaitao @BlakkBile "that woman" is already derogatory enough in english
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anime fans genuinely think this is what subtitles should look like
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