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Sociopaths like Ted Bundy appear to have emotions, such as empathy, but are good at faking it to avoid detection.

I’m very interested in the concept of AI developing deep and unique insights into the human experience.

It's shit now, just remember how long it was from when computers started playing chess until they were able to consistently beat all humans. You're right that it won't affect great authors-- yet.

Sigh, again with the pointless usage of hydrogen. This is far less efficient than solar panels and battery storage. Why lose 3x efficiency just to do the hydrogen- fuel cell - electricity conversion when you can just go solar to battery in one shot.

Article title should be renamed to: “How to need 3x more solar panels to power a house with hydrogen storage”.

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So overall it sounds like ChatGPT is accurate?

Honestly, I’m not worried about it. In fact with all our land and natural resources (talking food and water) I think the U.S. is frankly one of the best places to live in terms of climate change, and IMO that’s a bigger deal.

Politically, you need to understand that very few Americans under the age of, say, 45 are the kinds of right-wing whack jobs who are causing problems for the rest of us. 10 years from now the electorate is going to be overwhelmingly dominated by Millennial and Gen Z voters, who are arguably more progressive/liberal-minded than any generation in history.

We will need to deal with a minority of angry, violent conservatives, and they could cause problems. Like, think of ‘The Troubles’ in Ireland: bombings, shootings. Things like that are already an issue and will likely worsen. But we can deal with that and the more that shit happens the more it will harden the rest of our resolve to build a better society.

I am worried about many things, but not our politics. Oh, and besides, these people who are trashing us - what do they suggest? Move to Europe? Aside from being massively overpopulated and lacking a good resource base on its own, it’s not like they don’t have the same problems with fascism that we do here. In fact in some regards the situation there is even worse politically. No. Stay here and help us make this country a good place to be.

Pre-tax annual ~115k between me and my wife, monthly take-home after tax, SSI, healthcare, and savings deductions ~6,500.

I’m not gonna list all my expenses, but we live pretty frugal sharing one car, but rent in a HCOL area in Southern CA. I’ll be lucky to have 2k in fun money at the end of the month, but it usually falls short. I would love to own a home here and that’s where the leftover should be going toward, but that’s unlikely within the decade.

Emotions evolved as instinctual weights on decision making. In some cases like fear they override the slow thought process to drive action. In others they motivate you to accumulate more resources in order to be more attractive to partners, like jealousy. Most AI are driven by performance numbers and these are pseudo emotional. If these points are and the algorithms that drive them are designed well I could see them approximating an emotional response. The real question is this can make you money. I think it can because simulating human behavior is profitable and humans have emotions.

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My guy, any amount of people without health care in a so-called 1st world nation is a crime against humanity.

Same also applies in Australia. We have the same issue, our government rolled out a national internet service. The wireless service exists, but is oversubscribed and slow. Starnet is already starting to be of concern.

Ah you're correct. I should have thought a bit more about that, I thought they were dismissing emotions as unnecessary overall. That's completely my bad, thank you. /genuinely

I kind of just.. I know it's extremely early to say, but philosophically speaking, if an AI says it 'feels', whether or not that's it's code or an emergent consciousness, who are we to judge?

I'm not saying run to Congress right now lol but I just wonder what gives Us the right to say Other Beings feel, depending on how much their Feelings resemble ours. Not worded well sorry ! Thanks again for your gentle correction.

It’s like taking to a 12 year old who happens to know how to search the internet really well.

Not really. Bone marrow transplants are very dangerous and require HLA types to match. HLA type is like blood type matching except way more specific. The chances of a person having matching HLA types with someone else is close to zero. Sadly, it's not uncommon for people who actually need bone marrow transplants to die because no registered donors compatible with them could be found.

https://www.livescience.com/how-many-moon-meteorites

According to ballpark figures from this article, any given square kilometer of Moon-surface is hit by a small meteor about once every thousand years. Each of those small meteors delivers energy comparable to a ballpark of 3 kg of dynamite.

Over a million years, that comes out to a given square kilometer getting hit with a thousand impacts of 3kg of dynamite each.

The Great Pyramid is about 250m x 250m, so it's about 1/16 of a square kilometer, so let's say it gets about 50 impacts in a million years.

Here is a video of what happens to a fairly large concrete cube when you detonate "just" 2kg of dynamite on top of it (not inside or under, which would be more damaging; this is a decent simulation of how a meteor impact would work). It does not go well for the cube.

However, the Great Pyramid is much larger than said cube. It seems clear that any single one of those strikes would do significant visible damage but would not destroy the structure. 50 strikes shouldn't be enough to do that either - not if they're randomly distributed (as opposed to what we would do in, say, a controlled demolition). 500 (10 million years) seems like it would certainly be enough, however.

Caveat: these are ballpark estimates, and depend in large part on the estimate of meteor impacts and the effect of an impact on the material. I used concrete as an example, but solid stone would be more resilient, and something like a hardened, reinforced bunker with modern building materials would be even more resilient. This also doesn't take into account larger meteors, simply because we don't have a reliable estimate of their rate-per-year.

You're shoving a lot of words in my mouth.

>the burden is on you to provide any evidence whatsoever that the only requirement for being able to feel and express emotions, both tangible and intangible, love or pain or both simultaneously, is a sensor and raw data.

I'm not here to play burden tennis with you, especially not in a heavily philisophical debate based on theoretical technology. Nor did I ever list out the requirements of emotion being "a sensor and raw data." The basis of my position is the idea that there is nothing inherent and exclusive about the human body that requires natural reproduction to be made manifest. This was the intent behind my homunculus example; I want to know what you consider to be the definining difference, whether it be the existence of soul, a creator, free-will, whatever.

>by your logic, the only thing the world needs to permanently solve all depression everywhere is raw data on happy because we already have senses

From a causal deterministic standpoint, yes it would be theoretically possible to control a person's emotions using controlled stimuli. This idea falls adjacent to Laplace's Demon, a concept that describes a theoretical entity that knows the state of every atom in the universe, and can therefor perfectly tell the future. Such an entity could in theory use the same knowledge to make adjustments in a way that changes a person's thought process.

The problem here is twofold; first we simply don't have the level of technology needed to fully map and understand the human brain structure. In order to affect the brain for a precise outcome, we need to know exactly how it works down to the smallest scope. Second, we would need a computer or other entity capable of storing information on and simulating not only a given brain, but every possible interaction and stimuli that could affect it (essentially the universe). Outside of some fantastical technological revelation, this makes perfect prediction and control virtually impossible.

What we can do though is crudely alter the chemicals in the brain & body to simulate different states of mind. Medications such as anti-depressants contain chemicals that, when received by the receptors in your brain, forcibly shift your brain function. Chemicals and electrical impulses would be our equivalent to internal 'data.'

>and your logic says those are exactly equal to sensors

Again, never said they were exactly equal, but rather they can be created to serve the same purpose. I wouldn't even consider this controversial; the existence of bionic eyes or cochlear implants, allowing blind and deaf people to see and hear, grounds this in present reality.

What I don’t get is that if telomeres shorten with aging, shouldn’t their capacity to produce these proteins decrease? Is rising levels in the blood with age solely due to production from cancerous cells?

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Vucea:

One side effect of unlimited content-creation machines—generative AI—is unlimited content.

On Monday, the editor of the renowned sci-fi publication Clarkesworld Magazine announced that he had temporarily closed story submissions due to a massive increase in machine-generated stories sent to the publication.

In a graph shared on Twitter, Clarkesworld editor Neil Clarke tallied the number of banned writers submitting plagiarized or machine-generated stories.

The numbers totaled 500 in February, up from just over 100 in January and a low baseline of around 25 in October 2022.

The rise in banned submissions roughly coincides with the release of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022.

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How much do you make and how much do you have left after necessary expenses?

It’s shit content though. I’m hoping this whole AI thing actually reduces the amount of bad writing overall, by highlighting just how terrible so much of it is.

Things like ChatGPT are appallingly bland, and dull, wordsmiths

The following submission statement was provided by /u/chopchopped:

SS- A New Jersey Resident built a solar hydrogen home in 2006, which was the subject of a Scientific American article called "Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-house/ - great to see others integrating this tech - 17 years later.
http://hydrogenhouseproject.org

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http://web.archive.org/web/20220202063706/https://www.hydrogenhouseproject.org/index.html

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The problem is rogue nations or actors creating AI not The US or Western countries making it