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Oh no the neural implant project backfired, I must now spread the logs throughout the building an leave a distress message in Latin
  • Elon has gone on record saying he's a huge sci-fi fan, and has mentioned Iain M Banks in particular who writes a lot of posthuman and transhuman characters. He's literally pulling his ideas directly from fiction.

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    Do you believe in meritocracy? Why or why not?
  • I agree, there would have to be measures in place to prevent the "promote to the level of incompetence" style of meritocracy that is prevalent already. There needs to be a system of recognizing that the person in any given position has the skills and abilities that make them awesome at that specific job, and rewarding them appropriately without requiring them to justify it by taking on tasks that they're not suited for.

    The idea that workers should always be gunning for a promotion is one of the worst parts of what people think a meritocracy is. But how else do you determine how much they should be paid?

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    All 10 TOS And TNG Star Trek Movies Exit Paramount+ For Max And HBO (Again)
  • Well that sucks, I just paid for a full year. Was this announced beforehand or did they disappear with no warning? What else are they going to drop?

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    What would you do if you had access to a superintelligent AGI?
  • Thanks for the link, that sounds like exactly what I was asking for but gone way wrong!

    What do you think is missing to prevent these kinds of outcomes? Is AI simply incapable of categorizing topics as 'harmful to humans' on it's own without a human's explicit guidance? It seems like the philosophical nuances of things like consent or dependence or death would be difficult for a machine to learn if it isn't itself sensitive to them. How do you train empathy in something so inherently unlike us?

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    I'm so conditioned by ads on social media that I automatically inspect Lemmy posts when I'm browsing.
  • Every time I'm using someone else's tech and I see ads I actually quite enjoy them in a nostalgic way. I kind of miss the days when I used to know all the jingles for all the pizza chains and furniture stores in my area.

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