Mmmm wetware organic system of fats…

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After living though the AIDS crisis in the 90s and how BIG of a deal it was, it's so weird to me how generally ignored it's been that it's not only no longer a death sentence but also now potentially curable. Probably because it's been a long slow road rather than one miracle cure, but still something I would have never imagined back then. Like, ya it's reported but it's not a huge world shaking headline.

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Well we have an authoritarian running again in the next presidential election and this time I believe he will go all in, he's old and has nothing to lose. They already have their uniforms and salutes for him. Even people making a decent living are living paycheck to paycheck, I don't know a single person who isn't now. 4 years ago it wasn't this bad, I didn't have to see so many crying faces it was mostly smiles and laughs back then. Things got dark and cold very fast, it's only a matter of time before things get deadly.

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We don't even know if we will ever achieve AI for real at this point so we don't need rules.

We have to see what AI really turns out to be before we have any chance of making rules about it.

The current crop of stuff is not ai and it can get smart and kill humans.

AI is most likely going to be a very specific instance of custom hardware not something you can Mass proliferate easily so you probably not going to just all of a sudden have a whole bunch of a eyes pop up.

Building an AI will be like building a supercomputer in the past where it's a you know very custom build and each is a little bit different and you don't really have that many of them.

Because of the way AI works you know you might not really need many AI supercomputers doing the back end highly complex problems. Most of the work is going to be done by like sensors and machine learning that has nothing to do with AI.

AI is not required for the vast majority of automation, only the most complex problems with the most variables. Machine learning can handle everything else.

There's no reason to think each AI would be the same... This is like custom evolution and you're probably going to get different products entirely out of different processes.

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you can’t feel pain unless you can feel which machines can not do.

no. it can remind you to think before you speak though.

I think there’s a lot worse places to be if you’re poor

We don't know how to reliably give AI a goal at all. All the innards of the AI are a bunch of incomprehensible numbers. We don't program it, we train it, until its behavior seems to be what we want. But we never know whether it might behave differently in a different environment.

To implement something as complex as the Three Laws we'd need an entirely different kind of AI.

Do you actually feel those emotions you describe? Or do you just think you do?

I feel like you should prove to me that you actually feel emotions.

I don't believe that you have any feasible way to prove your own emotions through text so I don't believe that an AI would do much better

It will use emotions mathematically to manipulate humans. Have you ever watched the movie Ex Machina?

People often ask and talk about this, but the real question is: does an AI need emotions? What's their function? If there's none, then why would it need them?

You do feel emotions' , are you sure? Because that is just signals in a wetware organic system of fats, from chemicals and electric noise...

Capitalism destroys the world in this timeline. People learn the hard way that you can't eat a dollar. The pursuit of wealth and power completely destroys the world around us until you are simply a cog to keep the money flowing. It is already happening. Pay attention.

No, emotions aren't emergent from intelligence, consider psychopaths, usually very intelligent - but unable to process emotions as most of humanity. Most psychopaths don't know they are until they're diagnosed, and so have no idea they are essentially emulating others. I would still agree that psychopaths are both sentient and concious, despite the emotional area of their brains being turned off.

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According to our research, we believe that straightforward blood tests for these proteins could serve as an effective screening tool for some types of cancer and other human diseases "Griffith, a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, made the statement. "Because telomeres shorten with age, these tests may also provide a measure of "telomere health."

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Sure. Because its not as if Russia is systematically targeting civilian and military infrastructure or anything.

Our problem is that our government is so divided, even good ideas are voted against out of partisanship. Look at the Infrastructure Bill. We needed that desperately, in fact, I think it one of the prime achievements of safeguarding our role as world innovators. Look at other countries like Japan, with their bullet trains. Look at Europe with their public transportation hubs.

The one bit of bright news is that we got a domestic microchip manufacturing bill passed, that was absolutely essential. We need to aggressively be pursuing energy independence by switching to 100% wind and solar, just as a minimum.

>Even if it can’t experience emotion for real, does its thinking it experiences emotion effectively mean it is experiencing emotion because it will react in a way that it has learned is appropriate for the given emotion?

Since emotions are subjective to individuals, I think the answer to this question is yes.

Thinking you are experiencing an emotion and actually experiencing that emotion; same thing.