I saw her as a solo act in 1988. She came out wearing a “sexy lady cop” uniform, then part way through the first song ripped off what turned out to be a tear-away mini-skirt and shirt, and played the rest of the set in black lingerie. As a teenager at the time, I thought she looked ancient - turns out she was only 29/30!

Whirled peas?

Well, this thread is fully payed out.

These punks need to be taught how to use belts to hold up their damn oversized, saggy LLM jeans.

Fully prepared for the Rhinoceropocalypse.

Get Doofenshmirtz involved in the design - he was always good at red off-button placement.

Even if a just, steady-state society was nearly always the end result, all it takes is one single society bent on unending expansion to completely fill up and remake the galaxy within a (cosmically short) few hundred million years.

Hard pass on the first four commandments, which are completely irrelevant to any non-religious person.

They don’t even get around to the not murdering part until number six, which frankly seems a bit late for something so obviously basic and important. Not to mention, the commandments on their own don’t even provide any guidance on when killing is okay vs not. And as anyone who’s ever even skimmed through the Old Testament is well aware, there are so many relatively minor crimes deserving punishment by death that there may as well be a big, fat asterisk on that one.

In conclusion: not a very helpful place to start searching for universal morality.

This is …inaccurate.

Can confirm. Spent many, many hours making updates: very real problem, incredibly boring solution.

It’s literally cool, which will help in an increasingly hot climate.

Presumably there will be a massive amount of salvageable and reusable materials in the thousands upon thousands of office buildings people will no longer be using.

You mean it didn’t come up with those ideas on its own? I’m shocked - shocked I say!

What held true in the past won’t necessarily hold true as the pace of change and disruption becomes faster and faster.

What do you think is going to happen to wages in the trades when tons of young, competitive, able-bodied gym-bros (of all genders) get displaced from their tech jobs and start looking for ways to earn a living? The trades require varying levels of experience to gain competence, but none of them are rocket science. And the current average standards of professionalism in residential contracting are absolute dogshit and begging to be disrupted.

If you actually read through the chart, you’ll recognize that there’s not a heavy “left-wing bias” - e.g. “democrats” are less protected than “rightists” and “right-wingers”; meanwhile “liberals”, “leftists”, “right-wing people”, and “evangelicals” all rank around the same.

Overall, the model clearly goes further to protect innate characteristics - especially those most commonly targeted by hateful rhetoric (disabled people, Black people, gays and transgender people).

Thanks for contributing, ChatGPT.

I’m not sure why OP has been hearing “basically nothing” - I’m not anywhere near that field, but I’ve been seeing updates on new breakthroughs cross my newsfeed at least 1-2 times per month.

Yep. They don’t call it the Hard Problem for nothing.

Our time together was so short, we didn’t even learn how to spell your name correctly!

“Something that is conscious has to be built in a certain way, which our current computers are not.”

Remarkable! So you’ve single-handedly solved the hard problem of consciousness? Do tell: is consciousness substrate-dependent? What is the specific architecture that makes it possible?

Exactly: it’s not so much the goal that’s the issue, it’s how an incredibly powerful, fast and resourceful AI seeks to fulfill its goal.

Well hey - at least there was an easy answer. Cheers!

I’m not often rendered speechless, but…

Before Big Sugar, processed foods, the soft-drink industry, and way too little exercise started destroying so many people. (Back then it was just cigarettes and leaded gasoline)