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2020-09-15 at 4:53 AM UTC in Heroic drunks get sloshed, leave driving to Tesla
Originally posted by netstat self driving cars will only be reasonably safe once all cars on the road drive themselves
I have no faith that we'll ever develop AI that can respond adequately to spontaneous erratic irrational human judgement and behaviour
I don't think we'll ever develop AI that can behave spontaneously, erratically, irrationally, or emulate human-like judgement and behavior (a poorly behaved AI is still behaving rationally and in line with its coding so there's nothing really erratic about it aside from the stupid ass meat idiot not expecting that result). But I have no doubt in my mind that we could develop an AI which responds to those things faster/better than any human could. Especially insofar as it related to driving, which really boils down to avoiding being hit/hitting things. Even in the case of the ethical shit like making a choice of WHAT/WHO to hit if doing so somehow becomes unavoidable, it's still just going to be doing what some guy/think tank decided it should do after agonizing about it for an eternity vs what an irrational, erratic, spontaneous human would judge to do in a split second. Any moment to moment decision an AI makes is going to be informed by hours of human foresight. Any decision a human makes in those situations is going to be made with, at best, instinctual/reflexive self preservation guiding it (I was going to say "in mind", but that implies some kind conscious thought going into a split second decision and humans can't do that unless they agonize about it and program an AI to make the decision when it happens). -
2020-09-15 at 4:14 AM UTC in Scientists Predict There's 90% Chance Civilization Will Collapse Within 'Decades'
Originally posted by Obbe Biologists Warn That The Latest Anti-Science Conspiracy Trend Is Extinction Denial
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/biologists-warn-of-extinction-denial-as-latest-anti-science-conspiracy/
Humanity is a mass extinction event and I am fine with this.
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2020-09-15 at 2:54 AM UTC in Generation II of Project Liberal-Coup
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2020-09-14 at 5:56 AM UTC in So ... why exactly DO the Russians keep trying to kill people with Novichok?
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2020-09-14 at 3:08 AM UTC in Should child molesters get raped in prison?There is no answer to this question that isn't fucked up, congrats.
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2020-09-14 at 12:53 AM UTC in Orange Fruit says why the US is in the mid east.
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2020-09-13 at 11:45 PM UTC in Orange Fruit says why the US is in the mid east.I'm sure he's not the first president to say this. I feel like every president for the past 20 years has talked about ensuring the security of our allies in the region and suchlike.
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2020-09-13 at 6:48 AM UTC in The next seven to ten years of gaming is going to be held back by a 4 tflops consolesldAnything tangible... anything real you accomplish is just as ultimately impermanent as anything done in a video game. 10000 years from now what I did in WoW tonight will matter just as much as every meaningful thing you've done in your entire life. Everything stops existing eventually. If permanence determines value, you might as well hop on the nihilist hype train to hell now and be done with it because nothing has value by that metric.
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2020-09-13 at 6:42 AM UTC in The next seven to ten years of gaming is going to be held back by a 4 tflops consolesldHell, even dreams are just as real as reality once reality and dreams are both in the past. And I like dreaming more than I like being awake a lot of the time too. In dreams... in dreams...
Good works of fiction are just dreams with less immersion, and the ultimate goal of any storyteller is probably to approach a dreamlike immersion with their work. Fiction, dreams, reality they're all just memories. Whether or not those memories leave a tangible trace in this reality has little value to me. -
2020-09-13 at 6:30 AM UTC in The next seven to ten years of gaming is going to be held back by a 4 tflops consolesld
Originally posted by infinityshock lovingly allowed lard-ass lanny the luxury of lapping the loins-leviathan while the little lad larps as a laotian ladyboy lapdancer........................................................................ (banned) as soon as the power goes off it never existed
It exists in here.
Having fond memories of the time I slew a dragon and founded a kingdom is far more enjoyable than having memories of the time I... what... fixed up a shitty old beater car to keep me occupied instead? Did taxes? Filed paperwork? Fixed a clogged toilet? Sculpted a monument out of human shit and called it art? These are all things that are "real" which seem far less meaningful than the things which are not. I don't really enjoy social activities so I don't value hanging out with friends or whatever normies find meaningful either. Which leaves me with my stories - books, tv, movies, games. The only productive thing I'd have any interest in doing is storytelling (ie creating the worlds I enjoy more than this one), but I've no talent for it so here we are. Vidya.
PS: Nothing that happens on this forum is real either. Why post here? It's all just words on a screen accomplishing nothing, that disappear the moment Lanny or the FBI wills it or when the power goes out or whatever. -
2020-09-13 at 1:59 AM UTC in The next seven to ten years of gaming is going to be held back by a 4 tflops consolesld
Originally posted by infinityshock lovingly allowed lard-ass lanny the luxury of lapping the loins-leviathan while the little lad larps as a laotian ladyboy lapdancer........................................................................ (banned) i have a better idea.
forego the fake reality and spend more time in the real world
Sounds lame tbqh. Why spend time in this reality when other realities are objectively better in every way except for the small fact that they are not in fact realities at all. -
2020-09-13 at 12:17 AM UTC in Scientists Predict There's 90% Chance Civilization Will Collapse Within 'Decades'
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2020-09-13 at 12:13 AM UTC in Cute traps thread
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2020-09-12 at 6:58 PM UTC in Scientists Predict There's 90% Chance Civilization Will Collapse Within 'Decades'
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Before you say "Drumpf is stupid" or some shit up that alley just remember he is demonstrably smarter than you.
Drumpf *is* stupid, and before you say he's demonstrably smarter than me just remember that that is not a very high bar to clear and it doesn't mean he isn't still a complete buffoon. -
2020-09-12 at 9:11 AM UTC in Ask me anythingWhy did you kidnap my parents and when do you plan on freeing them? I paid the ransom like you asked, what more do you want from me you sick fuck?
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2020-09-12 at 7:09 AM UTC in Poast: Why would I need to thank you if I can poast in Bitch and Moan?
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2020-09-12 at 5:48 AM UTC in Prof. White Man tried to pull a §m£ÂgØL. Promptly got evacuated.Hahahahahahahaha imagine losing your job over this holy shit. :')
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2020-09-11 at 8:58 PM UTC in Trump SURGES to HIGHEST APPROVAL RATING as Dems End WORST Convention EVER!!!
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny communists just wanted to change every other country into communist countries.
Communists didn't want to "turn countries into communist countries" - communists simply saw the plight of the working class abroad and sought to free them from the shackles of capital. The fact that communism would have been the end result of that was more incidental than anything. Communists are like Christian missionaries. They want to save the immortal souls of the people they evangelize to, the fact that this necessitates converting to Christianity is incidental.
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2020-09-11 at 7:09 PM UTC in Trump admits he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans
Originally posted by Obbe I can't recall any fighting in the streets happening in Canada. I personally would prefer honesty and proper guidance from leadership during a crisis.
To be fair, I think it's a cultural thing. If you wanted to sum up Canada, Australia, and America with one sentence each:
Canada: "Sorry, eh."
Australia: "I fucken glass you cunt."
America:
I think stereotypes about a country are a pretty useful tool in assessing how prone they are to irrational psychotic outbursts. -
2020-09-11 at 6:05 AM UTC in 50 Years of Failed Scientific Apocalyptic Predictions
Originally posted by Speedy Parker
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Originally posted by Speedy Parker
I will say upfront I'm not as much of a climate change/global warming skeptic as Speedy, but can someone explain to me why this Time article is referencing a 2.7°F cooling trend that occurred from "the 1940s" to the time it was written, and why a 0.38°C (0.68°F, if my math serves) increase over a similar span of time afterward (1981 to 2010) is alarming? Sounds like the warming trend over the last 40 years hasn't even accounted for 1/3rd of the cooling that occurred over the 40 years that immediately preceded it. 🤔
Someone please tell me why this isn't... like... a thing? Tell me why this isn't real please. I don't wanna be a climate denying boomer.
