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  • To me that thought experiment feels the same as how sci-fi treats the idea.

    If such a machine were not programmed to value living beings, then given enough power over its environment, it would try to turn all matter in the universe, including living beings, into paperclips or machines that manufacture further paperclips.

    Why would a paperclip machine (that for some reason is AI) be given such power over its environment and no limit to how many paper clips are made that it would decide it needs to turn organic matter into paperclips?

    Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans.

    That’s always what sci-fi goes with too. Humans might turn it off so destroy all humans. I don’t find it compelling in real life and it falls into what I meant with my first comment.

    (admittedly some of my disagreement falls apart since companies like Microsoft will put “AI” into shit like notepad, i can only imagine what they’d do with real AI)



  • Not caring is supporting bigotry.

    I agree with you

    “I don’t support nazis, I just don’t care if they conquer the world” is not really a good sentence to say.

    You know, part of the problem with situations like this conversation, I feel, is that it’s always Nazis. It ends up being a cliche that, when something else happens, like the US starting to literally follow similar trends that led to the actual nazi party, it’s already something people are tired of hearing and it hurts the message.

    They end up not taking this seriously (because web comics, even shitty bigoted ones, are not as serious as what happened in nazi Germany) and then the other claim doesn’t get taken seriously because “everything’s Nazis with you people”.

    Just a thought i had when reading this.


  • It can be tough to do, I finally just got off Google photos backing up my pictures and videos maybe 2 weeks ago.

    I already had them also being sent to my PC with resilio sync, but since I moved to Linux I didn’t have backblaze anymore (B2 is too expensive for me and their “unlimited” cloud backup is mac and windows only) and didn’t know of any affordable alternatives so I wasn’t willing to drop my only cloud backup even if it’s Google.

    Eventually I canceled the annual storage plan and said “I’ll figure it out by then”, didn’t figure it out, found jottacloud after that and am now using that.







  • Boomers aren’t really the parents of Gen Z if that’s what you’re saying, except on the extremes (the youngest boomers with the oldest Gen Z and they had kids past around 40 years old). That’s mostly Gen X and older millennials who had kids young. I, as a younger millennial, have boomer parents and even they almost aren’t.

    ~(I typed this and had one of those “god, I don’t care anymore” moments, but it’s typed already so here you go)~


  • I don’t know how other school systems did things, but for me not every class every year was 100% straight out of the textbooks. Some certainly were, usually math subjects or science could be.

    It’s anecdotal but I often find the “why weren’t we taught x” type of statements, I remember learning whatever thing in school. I know people will forget stuff and just say they never learned it (I mean, kids do that all the time IN school let alone a decade later) but there’s got to be bigger differences than just public vs private. (I was public)

    I don’t know what though.