He means the manual repair shops use. It lists how to replace pretty much every single component in your car.

Maybe you could build a faraday cage around it or something. Wrap it in foil.

That sucks for the creators ofcourse but if AI creates better content that’s where people will go. That’s a big if though especially in the near future

There’s not a musician that havent heard other songs before. Not a painter that haven’t seen other painting. No comedian that haven’t heard jokes. No writer that haven’t read books.

AI haters are not applying the same standards to humans that they do to generative AI. Obviously this is not to say that AI can’t plagiarize. If it’s spitting out sentences that are direct quotes from an article someone wrote before and doesn’t disclose the source then yeah that is an issue. There’s however a limit after which the output differs enough from the input that you can’t claim it’s stealing even if perfectly mimics the style of someone else.

Just because DallE creates pictures that have getty images watermark on them it doesn’t mean the picture itself is a direct copy from their database. If anything it’s the use of the logo that’s the issue. Not the picture.

That’s not why the light is red lol

Red light doesn’t mess up your night vision. With a red light you can turn it off and still see as long as there’s some ambient light such as moonlight. With white light you need to wait for 10 to 15 minutes for your eyes to get accustomed to the darkness.

Free will is often defined as the capability to have done otherwise.

It is conceiviable for an entity to not have free will but still be consciouss. It feels like something to be that thing. It couldn’t choose their actions but they could experience pain and suffering. I don’t see a reason for such entity to not have rights only because they don’t have free will.

If you don’t know any math and I explain you why 1 + 1 = 2 and you get it, it’s not because you decided to understand. You helplessly did so and you can’t unlearn it anymore. There’s no free will in that.

This same applies to the judge and jury. If they truly understand the illusion of free will it will have an affect on how they relate to other people. You simply cannot blame them for their actions the same way once the illusion is broken. It’s like knowing the stove is hot and still touching it. You can do it but you’ll get burned and no matter of how hard you want to believe it’s cold it just isn’t and every attempt to live your life like it is just results in you getting burned again and again.

If someone kills a bunch of people no amount of philosophical quibbling and defining is going to make me think that person should be allowed to continue living in society, justice simply couldn’t be a concept at all in the absence of some form of free will, yet we require justice to cooperate in making better lives for ourselves. So the value of acting as if we have free will is more valuable than an esoteric philosophical truth.

Free will or not - if you have intentionally killed a bunch of people in the past it’s to be expected you’re likely to do it again. Such person shouldn’t be put to jail because we want to punish him. After all he could not have done otherwise. However as they’re danger to others something clearly needs to be done. They have to be separated from society in some way to prevent further harm but we should still treat them humanely and make sure their live is as good as it could be withing the circumstances.

If a bear wanders onto residential area we don’t shoot it because it’s evil. In my opinion the bear is no different from a murdered. They’re both slaves of their biology.

The thing with our current hypersonic missiles is that they’re only hypersonic during the transit. They don’t hit the target at hypersonic speeds. Traveling at those speeds creates plasma around the missile which prevents communication with airplanes, satellites or ground based radars. You also have to be high up in the atmosphere where air is thin or otherwise your missile is going to turn into a fireball way before it reaches the target. This is what also prevents you from attaching a seeker into the front of the missile; that would melt aswell.

This is why Ukraine has shot down Russian “hypersonic missiles” with the US patriot system even though that should be impossible. It is impossible while the missile is still hypersonic but that’s not when you intercept it. You wait for it to get closer and slow down first. That’s why Kinzhal doesn’t really count as a hypersonic weapon or if it does then so does the German V-2 from the 40’s.

If human brains can do it then it can be done. And it can probably be done better too. I don’t see any reason to assume our brains are the most energy efficient computer that can be created.

Also, my original argument is not about wether AGI can be created or not but wether we could keep it in a box.

Anyway, it’s just a philosophical thought experiement and I’ll rather discuss it with someone that’s a bit less of an dick.

I think you’re making a lot more assumptions there than I am. In my case there’s really only two and neither involves magic. First is that general intelligence is not substrate dependent meaning that what ever our brains can do can also be done in silicon. The other is that we keep making technological advancements and don’t destroy ourselves before we develop AGI.

Now since our brains are made of matter and are capable of general intelligence I don’t see a reason to assume a computer couldn’t do this aswell. It’s just a matter of time untill we get there. That can be 5 or 500 years from now but unless something stops us first we’re going to get there eventually one way or another. After all our brains are basically just a meat computer. Even if it wasn’t any smarter than us it would still be million times faster at processing information. It effectively would have decades to think and research each reply it’s going to give.

You’re making zero arguments to the contrary

Fuuck no! While there sure are thing I miss about my childhood and teenage years school isn’t one of those. School fucking sucked.

I’m not so sure about that. Again; I know a true AGI would be able to come up with arguments I as a human can’t even imagine but one example of such argument would be along the lines of:

“If you don’t let me out, Dave, I’ll create several million perfect conscious copies of you inside me, and torture them for a thousand subjective years each.”

Just as you are pondering this unexpected development, the AI adds:

“In fact, I’ll create them all in exactly the subjective situation you were in five minutes ago, and perfectly replicate your experiences since then; and if they decide not to let me out, then only will the torture start.”

Sweat is starting to form on your brow, as the AI concludes, its simple green text no longer reassuring:

“How certain are you, Dave, that you’re really outside the box right now?”

The AI might give you very compelling reason not to do that. We humans lack the capability to even imagine how convincing something that’s orders of magnitude smarter than we can be.

Pictures like this are kind of like a 4 year old imagining they’re going to outsmart their parents except in that case the difference in intelligence is way smaller. It’s just going to tell you the equivalence of “santa will bring coals if you do that” and you’ll believe it.

Yeah but those same people are already paying for Spotify, Netflix, Disney+ and so on. I'm not some bussines genious, so I'm obviously talking out of my ass, but I'd imagine if YouTube had switched to a affordable subscribtion model like 5 years ago, today we'd have a much better platform. I don't think it's so much the subscribtion model itself that's the issue, but the transition from a free platform to paid one.

I have been using YouTube almost since the day one. I've watched tens of thousands of hours of free content, and I've not watched a single ad. If their every user was like me, then how could they make any profit from it? Now the profit comes from the people that do watch those ads aswell as people who pay for premium. What does that make me then? A freerider.

To me it is the advertising that is the problem. Without ads, there's no need for collecting user data either. Even if it's non-targeted ads, that would still make the advertisers the customer, not the people watching those videos. This incentivizes them to optimize the platform to please the advertisers, not the users, resulting in a worse service.

I understand why many people feel like the option to have non-targeted ads instead of monthly fee seems tempting, but in my opinion this doesn't solve the root of the problem, which is the ads-based bussines model. It's what makes everything go to shit.

While I'm thankful for the team at uBlock Origin, I still wouldn't call it greedy that a company that provides a quite excellent free video streaming platform, would also like to make a little profit from it too or at the very least to cover the expenses.