Iconoclast @ Iconoclast @feddit.uk

Refusing to reduce complex reality into slogans and clichés since 19XX

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Well, I wouldn't go as far as to make it illegal to create an anonymous account, but my anecdotal evidence says that if you want people to behave and for those who don't to actually stay away after they've been kicked, then part of the answer is an account tied to your actual identity (admins have to know, not necessarily users) and a subscription-based bussines model so the users actually have skin in the game and the platform doesn't need to fund itself with ads, thus making users the product.

I'm a paid member on such a platform and you genuinely can't find people acting like obnoxious jerks there even if you go looking. Here finding one takes 20 seconds.

There are a few people who have acted like jerks towards me in the past, but I don't know what those people were dealing with in their lives during that time so I'm not going to dismiss them entirely as a person because of it. Them acting that way is more about them than it's about me anyway. Some people just can't help themselves. I don't want to be around these people but I also don't blame them for it as if they could choose to be otherwise.

How dare he stay in contact with a diverse group of people.

By building a setup that allows the researchers to flash text on the right/left visual field. On a normal brain this information does indeed travel between the hemispheres but on a split brain it doesn't.

The so-called "split brain" studies on people who have had the bridge between the two hemispheres - the corpus callosum - cut to treat grand mal seizures are fascinating. They use this method to communicate with each hemisphere separately without the other knowing.

You can, for example, give one an instruction to do something. After it has done it, you ask the other (verbal) hemisphere why they just did that, and they immediately make up a plausible-sounding explanation despite the scientists knowing it's not the actual reason.

You also get different answers for questions about dream jobs and such.

This all sparks the question: Are there two "people" in our brain the whole time or is the other created the moment the connection is cut? And which one is what I call "I"?

Peace of mind I guess. I tend to worry a lot even though I wouldn't need to.

I could list plenty of material things I want but when I get one I just start wanting the next thing. I don't need any of it and I can pretty much buy anything I wish if I so choose to so I'm not deprived of anything I actually need.

Relationship.. maybe. Depends on the day. I'm quite content on my own as well.

Time. Yeah, that's it. I want more time. Much more.

You say "nah" but I don't see you disagreeing with anything I said.

I've been here for over 2 years and it still remains unclear to me what the average Lemming stands for, but I sure know what they're against. It's just wild to me how much some people seem to build their identity around the things they oppose - that opposition sometimes seems to be the only thing people here have in common with each other.

Hoping that them dying solves the issue assumes they'll get replaced by someone less evil, which isn't always the case. Death doesn't fix the broken system that got us those leaders in the first place. It only satisfies the primitive human desire for vengeance.

Seems like plenty of death fantasies for one person.

AI isn’t any one thing. It’s an broad term used in computer science to refer to any system designed to perform a cognitive task that would normally require human intelligence. The chess opponent on an old Atari console is an AI. It’s an intelligent system - but only narrowly so. That’s called “narrow” or “weak” AI.

It can still have superhuman abilities, but only within the specific task it was built for - like playing chess or generating language.

A large language model like ChatGPT is also narrow AI. It’s exceptionally good at what it was designed to do: generate natural-sounding language. What people expect from it, though, isn’t narrow intelligence - it’s general intelligence. The ability to apply cognitive skills across a wide range of domains the way a human can. That’s something LLMs simply can’t do - at least not yet. Artificial General Intelligence is the end goal for many AI companies, but LLMs are not generally intelligent. However they still fall under the umbrella of AI as a broad category of systems.

"Super AGI" is called Artificial Superintelligence (ASI).

Assuming it's technically possible - and I see no reason why it wouldn't be - then as long as we keep improving our technology without killing ourselves in the process, it's only a matter of time. We could get there in a couple of years or it could take a few hundred, but it seems rather inevitable from where I stand.

There's some amazing stories of identical twins discovering eachother at later age. I believe the claim there was that it's among the strongest bonds between humans that there is. You've never met before but when you do, it all immediately just clicks.

I'll choose uncomfortable truth over comforting lies any day and that's how I treat other people as well. I don't want others choosing for me whether I can handle the truth or not. That's how you treat kids - not adults.

The premise of the question asks you to entertain a hypothetical situation.

I work with my hands so I've already got that covered. However, most of my customer base does not (which is why they call me instead of doing it themselves) so it remains to be seen if they can still afford to hire me in the future. If not, then at least I'm heavily invested to the stock market so I too get to profit from the productivity boom.

And the fact that it's not Putin says something.

We also have experimental data showing that LLMs work harder when you threaten them. Maybe they’re just copying the human tendency to work harder when threatened, but I wouldn’t put money on it.

Also, when you dial down their capacity to deceive they start telling you they're consciouss.

By consciousness I mean the fact of experience - that it is like something to be, that experience has qualia.

Things like memory, morality, biological goals, learning, intelligence, etc. that you listed there may be related, but they don't need to be. It's conceivable that we could create a very simple system that doesn't seem to do much but by happenstance it processes information in a way that some level of consciousness emerges and it is like something to be that system. In the worst case we remain completely unaware of that and this thing is suffering immensely while we just keep "mistreating" it because we don't know better. We effectively created hell and populated it.