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VivianSherwood t1_jegumu6 wrote

Reply to non United States folks: what do you think of The Great Gatsby? by Different-Carpet-159

I'm Portuguese, I can get the themes about the American Dream and American values but, there are some universal themes there, about love and greed and wanting to feel relevant, these feelings are common to everyone but they take on different shapes in different cultures.

Btw it's one of the few cases I thought the movie was better than the book. I bought the book in a rush because I was going to watch the movie and I wanted to read the book first, I thought the book was ok but the movie is a work of art.

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-OrangeLightning4 t1_jeguloo wrote

Reply to comment by ReeG in What are some r/movies tropes? by HotSwordfish23

I saw someone so desperate to prove superiority over the new Avatar that in the middle of an absolute word salad of a review they called the plot " incomprehensible." The film was many things, but the plot was incredibly straightforward. Trying to intellectually take down this particular movie by calling it "incomprehensible" is almost telling on yourself.

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SatoriTWZ t1_jegullm wrote

Reply to How could AI actually cause the extinction of Homo sapiens? by BeNiceToYerMom

The greatest danger AI brings is not AI going rogue or unaligned AI. We have no logical reason to believe that AI could go rogue and even though mistakes are natural, I believe that an AI that is advanced enough to really expose us to greater danger is also advanced enough to learn to interpret our orders correctly.

The biggest danger AI brings is not unalignment but actual alignment - with the wrong people. Any technology that can be misused by governments, corporations and the military for destructive purposes will be - so the aeroplane and nuclear fission were used in war and the computer, for all its positive facets, was also used by Facebook, NSA and several others for surveillance.

If AGI is possible - and like many people here I assume it is - then it will come sooner or later more or less of its own accord. What matters now is that society is properly prepared for AGI. We should all think carefully about how we can avoid or at least make it as unlikely as possible that AGI - like nuclear power or much worse - will be abused. Imo, the best way to do this would be through democratisation of society and social change. Education is obviously necessary, because the more people know, the more likely there will be a change. Even if AGI should not be possible, democratisation would hardly be less important, because either way AI will certainly become an increasingly powerful and in the hands of a few therefore increasingly dangerous technology.

Therefore, the most important question is not so much how we achieve AGI - which will come anyway, assumed it is possible - but how we can democratise society, corporations, in a nutshell, the power over AI. It must not be controlled by a few, because that would bring us a lot of suffering.

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smrb t1_jegul5y wrote

Reply to 50/70/90 Columbus v.s. Urby by No-Entrance9663

50/90/70 columbus... amenities shared by three towers = INSANE. pool is always packed. Have to grill during the week. constant passive-aggressive emails from management because dog owners are morons.

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