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Terminus0 t1_j9hxe42 wrote
Reply to comment by DragonLordAcar in [WP] It finally happened, a sentient AI took over the world's nukes and killer drones. However, instead of destroying humanity, it starts enforcing international law, much to the consternation of the nations. by Slayer_Jesse
People have this vision of AIs as perfectly logical, but as we are seeing from Neural Nets we have developed in the last ten years, they are not. Any intelligence we generate will be flawed, maybe not in the same way we are ( or maybe it will due to it being trained on our data) and it very well could have feedback systems that to it approximates a limbic system ( not to say that they would be the same as ours but emotional responses evolved for a reason, they are useful).
So throw out visions of the cold calculating computer that bases its operation upon pure symbolic reasoning, that doesn't work the last time we thought that would work was the 80s with expert systems.
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Reply to comment by buldozr in Why Nikola Tesla is So Famous (and Westinghouse is not) by pier4r
WABTEC (which used to be known as Westinghouse Airbrake company, and now stands for Wabtec), which acquired GE Transportation recently is also a 800 lb gorilla in the train industry but most people don't know about it.
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Reply to comment by 21_MushroomCupcakes in When does an individual's death occur if the biological brain is gradually replaced by synthetic neurons? by NefariousNaz
My totally uninformed opinion, I am an engineer not a neuroscientist/philosopher, believes that as long as continuity is maintained between the totally biological brain and the synthetic rebuild, there will be the same person looking out from the inside.
A copy is not you, because you are still you so that must be someone else.
When you slowly update yourself bit by bit I don't believe there is any point in the process you can declare you as not you. This has always been my answer to the ship of Theseus problem. That the one who maintained continuity with the 'original' is the 'original'.
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Reply to comment by spacemanpajamas in Jeff Vandermeer, Annihilation, and Borne by MyStarling
If Borne was out of focus. Dead Astronauts was like glimpsing a world through a broken mirror.
I enjoyed both, but Dead Astronauts made me work for it.
A book I read purely based on Jeff Vandermeer's recommendation on twitter (I didn't even look at the summary before buying it) was 'Sisyphean'. Now that was the weirdest book I've ever read. Enjoyed it as well but twas not a light read.
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Reply to Indirect democracy represented by AI by SSan_DDiego
This reminds of the indirect democracy that they create on Saturn (correct me if I'm wrong) in the book Accelerando.
Voting consists of everyone's mind being imaged at a certain time and then being averaged/combined (Kind of like a model merge in Stable Diffusion?) into a singular governing entity.