@graymalk
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I wonder how uncontacted tribes incorporate changes of the night sky into their worldview. Imagine: suddenly, during the course of a single generation, moving lights pop up, flying across the night sk...
There are likely no truly uncontacted tribes left. There are some that choose to remain as they are, but they’ve been contacted at some point, and now know enough to know that anything strange they see is caused by us. Some maintain regular contact by way of tribe members travelling to cities and learning whatever they learn. So a lot of them probably know about airplanes.
These days most of them are more akin to mennonites and Amish, with one huge exception being the tribe out in the Maldives somewhere (the one that attacks on sight).
These days most of them are more akin to mennonites and Amish, with one huge exception being the tribe out in the Maldives somewhere (the one that attacks on sight).
This happens to me all the time when using Mullvad. They must be doing something right.
The Apple one triggers it too.
i just spent 3 minutes trying to solve ~42 different captchas just to google something, AMA
The trick is to be slow.
I thought about these topics years ago as a teen, and now they're coming back, indeed, because of AI and other technological breakthrough.
Another (?) thing I sometimes think about is "how much diffe...
Your test subject might get some random events the second time around that are different from the first. Random being by definition not controllable by the copy paste. The uninverse is weird.
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Very interesting. We have to be careful about the assumptions we make. How do we know that even something like the Sun is not conscious? As Sam Harris said in Waking Up-if the Sun were in fact conscio...
I sometimes have fun imagining that all of the earth factory is really just building up to silicon-based life as the next evolutionary burp.
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Yup. I share this line of reasoning and have based on it a worry that we can’t expect to recognize alien life if we encounter it in space. We are only good at recognizing mammals, and then decreasin...
And sometimes I think about why some people think things like ChatGPT are already conscious. My personal untested take is that it probably seems conscious to them because it’s SMARTER than they are. The average overall intelligence level of the data set is probably higher than the population average. 😂
The concept has been covered in science fiction for decades, but I think a lot of people underestimate the ethical challenges associated with AI and the possibility for consciousness in the years or d...
Yup. I share this line of reasoning and have based on it a worry that we can’t expect to recognize alien life if we encounter it in space. We are only good at recognizing mammals, and then decreasingly less good as we go farther and farther out. The only thing that usually tips us off is if it moves, but you mentioned plants… plants move, but only slowly. It doesn’t trigger that same reaction unless we can speed up a video. And yet we persist in looking for alien life. 😬
I suspect one major issue for AI though is that it’s a simulation, specifically of us, except it can never *be* us because we exist in an analog world. So I think AGI is dead in the water (unless we stop thinking we can simulate our own brains digitally). No simulation can ever truly capture reality.
I suspect one major issue for AI though is that it’s a simulation, specifically of us, except it can never *be* us because we exist in an analog world. So I think AGI is dead in the water (unless we stop thinking we can simulate our own brains digitally). No simulation can ever truly capture reality.
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