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5 days agoStart saving for old age now. It might seem like a long way off, and you might not have much money right now to begin with, but being young and poor is way better than being old and poor.
Melllvar
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3·10 days agoMan it sure is crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.
2·22 days agoThe problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it’s bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.
otherwise we would just switch it off
If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.
A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?
Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you’d like to highlight?
16·3 months agoThere is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.
It may be possible…
It may not be necessary…
A Nintendo64 with several game cartridges. It’s a little flaky, but it still works for the most part.
Californian. No.
It wouldn’t solve any problems that can’t be solved by other means, and it would create new problems that we haven’t had to worry about before. It’d be a net loss for everyone involved.
You skipped several million deaths.
Nuking Japan was in proportion and in service to the United States’ legitimate military objectives.
E099: PROGRAMMER IS OVERLY POLITE