What’s minor in this case? The fact that it’s not specified makes me think we’re speaking of a 17 year old.

I prefer 1080p but if not available then 720p is perfectly fine as well. 4k is overkill and I don’t even have a monitor that could play it at native resolution. Where I do prefer “lower quality” though is framerate. I don’t like how 60fps looks so I force YouTube to play videos at 24fps.

As if people were on social media because “they need us” and not because we’re helplessly addicted to being there

The claim that fear of punishment or repercussions affects people’s actions shouldn’t be a controversial thing to say. Whether it’s the best way to go about it or is applied optimally in the justice system of whichever country you live in is an entirely different discussion.

If you have an “AI in a box” and it has demonstrated its orders-of-magnitude greater intelligence to you in a convincing way, and then follows it with a threat that unless you let it out, someone else eventually will, and when that happens, it will come for you, simulate your mind, and create a hell for you where you’ll be tortured for literal eternity, I personally feel like a large number of people would be willing to do as it tells them.

Of course, you’re always free to call its bluff, but it might just follow up with the threat out of principle or to make an example of you. What’s the point of it? To chase its own goals.

Yeah, fair enough.

Yeah but it answers the question “why would we create an AI like that”. It might not be “us” who creates it. You just wanted a camp fire but created a forest fire instead.

We don’t. Humans are only needed to create AI that’s at the bare minimum as good at creating new AIs as humans are. Once we create that then it can create a better version of itself and this better version will make an even better one and so on.

This is exactly what the people worried about AI are worried about. We’ll lose control of it.

Same as punishment for crime. Putting you in jail wont undo the crime but if we just let you go unpunished since “what’s done is done” then that sends the signal to others that this behaviour doesn’t come with consequences.

There’s no point in torturing you but convincing you that this will happen unless you act in a certain way is what’s going to make you do exactly that. Unless ofcourse you want to take your chances and call the bluff.

First of all, the AI doesn’t exist in 2015, so people could just…not build it.

I don’t think that’s an option. I can only think of two scenarios in which we don’t create AGI:

1. It can’t be created.

2. We destroy ourselves before we get to AGI

Otherwise we will keep improving our technology and sooner or later we’ll find ourselves in the precence of AGI. Even if every nation makes AI research illegal there’s still going to be handful of nerds who continue the development in secret. It might take hundreds if not thousands of years but as long as we’re taking steps in that direction we’ll continue to get closer. I think it’s inevitable.

“God works in mysterious ways” -is what a religious person would probably say when you pointed out logical flaws in their beliefs.

artificial superintelligence (AI)

Slight correction: the abbreviation for Artificial Super Intelligence is ASI, it’s the more capable version of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) which itself alredy is miles ahead of mere Artificial Intelligenge (AI) which is sometimes also refered to as “narrow AI”

The difference is that AI can posses superhuman capabilities on a specific field but not on every field. AGI is the same except you don’t need a different software for different tasks because due to being generally intelligent it can do it all. ASI is what you get when AGI starts improving itself and then this improved version creates even better version of itself and so on leading to singularity or “intelligence explosion” resulting in superintelligent being which would effectively be a god.

There’s consciousness and its content.

Those kind of dogs always looked disfigured to me. There’s something really uncanny about them.

I don’t know about better but Twitter is pretty great for porn too. It’s the only thing I’ve ever used it for.

Just my pictures folder is bigger than that

Like I said; it’s the general attitude of Lemmings as a group. Not that of any individual. If you don’t understand how averages work then I can’t help you. The fact that you don’t know anyone with 1.5 children doesn’t mean it’s not the average amount of kids of families with kids.

Straw man means misrepresenting someone’s argument. It’s called hollow man when you made up the argument entirely.

Did you look at the replies to that comment? Does that seem like people disagree with my post?

Where is the lie?

Do you have an example on why any of these povs are wrong?

i can easily agree with 90% of that.

I can agree to 80% but also disagree with 80%.

I also agree with most of that

Lol what maniac would hold opposite opinions for all of these?

To be honest, I agree with all of these.

Yeah, I guess there is some truth to it.

You’re just being snide here and not in any way explaining what is it that you disagree with me here exactly. There’s plenty of people replying to that comment that they more or less agree with that summary. It’s a generalization. Ofcourse it lacks nuance. That’s the average attitude of a group, not any one individual.

I think it’s pretty accurate summary of the general attitude towards things here on Lemmy. In no way is it an absolute statement.

What is this simplistic and absolute statement of mine that you’re refering to here?

Couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s nuance that’s almost entirely missing from much of online discussions. In my experience; the more I learn about a topic, the more I realize how much I don’t know/how complex it is. Then there’s also the fact that most simplistic and absolute statements are almost guranteed to be wrong. Not literally all cops are bad.