AnarchoEngineer
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- Comment on Why is suicide considered selfish? If your like 80 or something and rely on your family for care. Would it not be a burden off of them? 3 days ago:
“He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it” -Frank Herbert
I don’t think suicide should be considered selfish regardless of age or physical ailment. We are all built differently. It is entirely possible someone could have a life I think is great but they find it absolutely hellish.
While I think there should be buffers in place like mandatory counseling to prevent rash actions and treatable psychological issues, the idea that anyone contemplating suicide is just mentally ill or “doesn’t understand how it will affect others” is incredibly niave even if it seems to be the common sentiment.
Would you tell a person to stay in an unhealthy relationship because it might make their partner(s) sad? No. Is it selfish to leave a job that destroys your mental health because your coworkers might miss you? No.
People’s lives belong to them. Not their friends or family or the government. Them alone.
- Comment on Any help , bros ? 3 days ago:
Iirc these things are “locked” by magnetic elements so just run a strong magnet around the gray part and listen for anything moving around. Might need multiple magnets at once
- Comment on good to know what can kill you in each state 5 days ago:
There has only ever been one fatal mountain lion attack in the entire history of Utah
- Comment on strassen's algorithm kinda hot tho 1 week ago:
I thought I was being pretty clear but I’ll spell it out: If some system reacts to a situation it “experiences” it at some rudimentary level. Hence the idea that simple game AI’s like pac man ghosts count for the first incomplete definition of sentience.
You’re right that this requires you to believe that a system is actually reacting to something instead of everything just being a figment of your imagination, but you said you already make that assumption so what’s the issue?
- Comment on strassen's algorithm kinda hot tho 1 week ago:
Absolute minimum for Sentience: capable of experiencing sensation/situation and deciding how to respond tto it.
This is arguably satisfied for any AI at or above the level of if-statements. Like even the ghosts in pacman meet this requirement. So that’s a bad definition lets step it up.
If you want to push the requirement up a single step you simply add: “capable of learning/unlearning responses to situations through experience (trial and error)” and voila all the “if statement” codes fail… as do all LLMs. In fact, any network model trained via gradient descent fails this definition.
Surprisingly (or not) some Reinforcement Learning nets don’t fail this definition though. But I’m not sure I’d call a spiking network that can classify MNIST images via STDP learning as “sentient.”
So, maybe we should push it a step farther and specifically say: “sentience is when something is capable of experiencing pain” And now all current “AI” fail.
Most general “Pain” meaning the unwanted interruption and disruption of other thought processes (network functions) by a specific stimulus which demands/steals the net’s attention/action/focus.
In order to pass this a network would have to not just learn and plan “in real time” so to speak, but also be capable of having those goal directed thoughts be interrupted/superseded by more salient stimuli.
Almost all (If not all) biological things with a central nervous system pass this. All current AI models fail.
This is where we could draw the line for “minimum sentience requirements” but even this is still rudimentary compared to what people typically mean when they say “sentience.”
Regardless, this is well beyond the capabilities of current AI. In fact, I’m reasonably certain that beating the ARC-AGI-3 contest (which can’t even be well attempted so far) with an actual learning-while-running model wouldn’t mean that net is capable of passing this definition of sentience. So this isn’t just beyond where AI is now but also beyond the major next milestone current AI has failed to reach.
Next Level (For Fun): Actual Sentience
The next step up would be the experience of suffering which is basically just the ability to recognize repeated/long-term/lasting pain; recognize that pain can/does disrupt thought processes; and experience the desire to remove/avoid the pain either due to it interrupting those desired thought processes. Again, this sentient system must still be capable of learning from mistakes which means capable of failing to fix the problem (end the suffering) and capable of realizing that it has failed. (If failure is also registered like pain, this gives rise to the possibility of creating a feedback loop of suffering / recognition of defeat/failure, congratulations you’ve created something capable of getting so frustrated by something it might be driven to invent things… or just driven to collapse into a manic/depressed non-functional mess… very relatable)
This, in my opinion, is a much more solid foundation for drawing the line of “this thing deserves at least some rights as a sentient thing.” Parrots and elephants and dolphins and dogs and cats etc. are likely at/above this level since they can experience frustration.
The next level up (for sentience specifically not cognitive function in general) would likely be the ability to predict/plan not just around the environment but around how the system knows it might react to possible scenarios and attempts to practice responding in a better way such that it will be easier when to respond better if/when those situations arise again/ever.
Any further levels would likely merge with consciousness requirements and other things like having a “theory of mind” or empathy. Further still might be the recognition of patterns in one’s own behavior that match those of others and give rise to the realization that one might have innate behaviors due to nature or nurture (specifications or experiences).
- Comment on Got to visit the Tyrell Corporation HQ last night. Place is huge. 3 weeks ago:
Assemble machines that are “more human than human” of course, what else?
- Comment on Anon likes Space Jam 5 weeks ago:
Yes and no, technically the gas was pressurized and let out for propulsion. Its just that after the gas is initially pushed into the thruster, we rip off electrons to make the gas into positive ions which can be further accelerated by an electromagnetic field potential before getting ejected.
You are getting thrust from the depressurization but also from the electromagnetic acceleration of the thruster. The point is that it is more thrust than you’d get from just gas expansion alone and it still would provide basically no delta v for such a massive object.
- Comment on Anon likes Space Jam 5 weeks ago:
It took the deep space 1 probe (which only weighed 373kg) 73.5 kilos of xenon through an ion engine to get a delta v of 4.1km/s.
So even if you turned the whole cargo bay into fully ionized plasma and somehow shot it out in a well directed beam, I seriously doubt it would cause any noticeable change in the trajectory of a million metric ton galaxy class starship
- Comment on The ultimate check 1 month ago:
Turns out I was wrong about modifications being needed since linux-xtensa has now been merged into mainline linux: Kernel Github Repo
- Comment on The ultimate check 1 month ago:
I know the ESP32-S3 can technically boot linux, however idk if it counts as “mainline” since I think the kernel does need to be modified slightly
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Beeper Funk because its the only one I can name lol
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 months ago:
Elden Ring… Idk if i could force myself to eat a raw dragon heart but without dragon communion spells, I know I’ll die much more frequently
- Comment on Day 760 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
If you’re talking about who I think. Yeah, that dude killed me a lot. And was just annoying.
The best (though slightly tedious) strategy I have is to go up to the balcony and stand with a pillar in between you and him. His attacks won’t break the pillar and you can then time it right to leave cover and shoot him several times before going back to hiding.
Also going to a place with lots of enemies to level up/craft mods is helpful, and do the janitor’s quests and explore as much as possible to gain more abilities / find more crafting materials.
Fighting is a lot easier when you can basically throw the entire room at an enemy over and over again.
- Comment on Wow remember these? 2 months ago:
Okay now that’s just cursed
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 2 months ago:
Hey now, do you really think all the eldritch monsters just stayed in the appalachians? No.
Thats why there are skinwalkers in the rockies; they’re just wendigo that heard there were taller mountains forming in the west and decided to migrate over.
/s
- Comment on I love it when this happens while I'm scrolling 2 months ago:
Iirc it’s Taiwan that makes NVIDIA chips, not china
- Comment on Groyper Def Noodles physically attacks an brown Christian after losing a debate 2 months ago:
Groupers are a diverse group of marine ray-finned fishin the family Epinephelidae, in the order Perciformes.
Idk what a groyper is tho
- Comment on Languages 2 months ago:
I think you actually just described Danish.
Why pronounce a consonant when you just can swallow it and use a glottal stop instead?
- Comment on Pikachu 2 months ago:
a) I was talking about the specific situation OP described, not any abusive/bad relationship ever
b) If it was abusive that would likely have made it violent (psychological violence is violence)
c) “Voluntary” as in they could choose to leave without threat to their safety/wellbeing, not “oh boy I wholeheartedly desire this.”
- Comment on Pikachu 2 months ago:
You were voluntarily being oppressed and decided to stop volunteering for it
It’s not like immigrants can just “break up” with ICE
- Comment on Anon's gf is intense 2 months ago:
Fake: Anon has a gf? Anon can run 20mi?
Gay: Complaining about a relationship with a woman who both cared enough about him to learn and participate in his hobbies AND has now also become a literal fitness goddess?
On a serious note, if you are in a healthy relationship, you should feel comfortable telling your partner(s) when you aren’t interested in doing something they want you to do. Boundaries and communication are important
- Comment on It really ties the universe together 2 months ago:
This looks a lot like a sky shot of a dense city at night.
New cyberpunk world-building technique just dropped
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 2 months ago:
IRB training for grad research. It’s just so long and tedious. Also why the hell would I need to know the names of specific cases and not just the regulations/reasons?
“What journal article spurred on the 1974 act?”
Idk, but I highly doubt the name of a random article will be at all relevant to me conducting ethical research
- Comment on Man or Bear 🥩 2 months ago:
This’s anti-twink propaganda
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Reasons to not worry about death specifically because you worry about death:
- Every moment you spend worrying about death is a moment you aren’t spending truly alive. If you’re worried about running out of time, then why would you want to keep wasting time worrying?
- Stress—like that from constant worry—quite literally kills you both physically and psychologically. The more stressed you are the more wear and tear both your body and brain experience. So not only is worry wasting your life, it is also shortening it; in other words, worrying about death is actually bringing you closer to it.
- Comment on Don't worry, not like they are fake leftist planted to suppress actual revolution or anything 3 months ago:
Woah hey now, there are definitely anarchists who participate in / cooperate with the DSA. Plus “Food Not Bombs” is an anarchist collective so we definitely do our fair share of praxis
- Comment on The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. 3 months ago:
It might be better to do PDE’s before thermo and electromagnetism
- Comment on Oh ok Simmons 4 months ago:
Ah category theory. You know i honestly think the only reason it’s so difficult to learn is not the idea but the jargon/notation-conventions
- Comment on Ответьте на мой призыв 4 months ago:
Привет
Hey wait Cyrillic is a script; does being able to write in the script mean you can speak it? Because movie makers who want fancy looking titles certainly don’t know what the symbols actually sound like.
- Comment on Homewrecker 4 months ago:
Are there any animals whose sexual reproduction relies on consuming the mate?
Like spiders and mantis will eat their mates but its not required for insemination. The closest i can thing of is angler fish getting like absorbed into the body of the female but thats through skin contact not being swallowed.