Iconoclast
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- Comment on Joe Rogan thinks AI running the government would ‘stop all wars on the planet’ 1 week ago:
Nowhere is it written that an actual AGI system would be aligned with the hopes and desires of its creator. That’s a baseless assumption that we shouln’t take as gospel.
- Comment on Joe Rogan thinks AI running the government would ‘stop all wars on the planet’ 1 week ago:
That has nothing to do with your original claim.
- Comment on Joe Rogan thinks AI running the government would ‘stop all wars on the planet’ 1 week ago:
There doesn’t exists an agreed upon definition for what we mean by “intelligence” which makes this a bit strange claim to make. What are you actually even saying?
- Comment on Joe Rogan thinks AI running the government would ‘stop all wars on the planet’ 1 week ago:
I don’t see him claiming AI would do that. He very clearly says that he hopes this would be the case.
That pretty much aligns with what I said about this a few days back in a different thread:
Humans are inherently flawed. Even the best ones are biased, emotional, irrational and easily manipulated. My (perhaps) unpopular opinion is that politics will never run like a well-oiled machine that treats everyone fairly for as long as they’re run by people.
A truly benign, aligned and independent AGI system is the only thing I can even imagine that could at least in theory offer the kind of governing system we actually need. And I truly mean an independent agent with our well-being as the guiding principle. Not one with an inbuilt bias toward who made it.
Now, whether that’ll ever be actually possible is a different story but the “best case scenario” for a human-run government and an AI-run government are light-years apart.
- Comment on This mess of a keychain I was handed at work 2 weeks ago:
How is it easy to bypass?
- Comment on How do you verify that a used bike that you're buying isn't stolen? 2 weeks ago:
You don’t. You go purely on vibes.
- Comment on This mess of a keychain I was handed at work 2 weeks ago:
Why not? It’s only “bad” compared to newer Abloys.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 40 comments
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m happy to hear that you still think about me.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
No, you don’t like me.
And what did I do this time? I asked you to provide evidence for a claim you made. That’s literally all I did. Had such evidence existed you would’ve provided it but you didn’t. I called you out and you got offended by it.
I don’t think I’m the issue here - you just appear to be a hateful person and you don’t even seem to need a reason for it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
And what are you hoping to achieve by telling me this? I’m genuinely asking.
- Comment on What is the most common stupid question you hear/see? 2 weeks ago:
“Can I get a discount if I pay off the books”
Or another way to ask the same thing: “Do you mind taking all the legal risk so that I could save some money?”
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t questioning whether anyone has ever done this. I was questioning whether they have even a single piece of evidence suggesting that this particular person has done so or if this accusation is purely motivated by simply not liking them which does not justify spreading disinformation.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You go any evidence to back that claim up?
- Comment on What are you doing for digital estate planning? 3 weeks ago:
There’s nothing in my email/computer/bank account that anyone else needs access to. When I go it all goes with me.
- Comment on War attention priorities 3 weeks ago:
People like conflicts that in their mind are easily divided into good guys and bad guys so that they get to pick a side to root for. When it’s people killing each other that look and think alike it’s much harder to make up one’s mind about what to think about it. Much of the discussion isn’t even about the conflict itself anyway but rather just people taking the opportunity to announce allegiance to a particular group or ideology.
- Comment on Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes? 3 weeks ago:
There are only upsides to going into your settings and hiding downvotes entirely. It’s pure masochism to have people’s boos broadcast to you in real time.
- Comment on why do we punish people when nothing bad happened ? 3 weeks ago:
If everyone started driving 10 kph over the speed limit we’d see a significant uptick in the rate of accidents. That is just a fact.
We don’t want that so we’ve set limits that still get you where you’re going as fast as possible while keeping that particular stretch of road relatively safe. To enforce those limits we’ve decided that if you get caught going over you get punished for it. Not for driving fast per se but for breaking the rules you agreed to in order to be allowed to drive there in the first place. Fining you even when you didn’t get into an accident is just carrying out the threat so that it keeps its credibility.
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Also, as a related sidenote: I don’t believe in free will so in a way punishing people even for murder doesn’t really make any sense since in my view they could not have done otherwise and simply can’t help themselves. I view a situation like that in a similar way to a bear mauling a person in the woods. What sense does punishing the bear make? It’s a bear for crying out loud - what did you expect it would do? However, we’re not bears. People regularly get the urge to similarly maul another person but most of the time they don’t because they know they’ll get in trouble for it so in that sense the punishment makes sense. Not as a punishment per se but as a deterrence to protect others. If you did a bad thing despite the deterrence the only tool we have left is to lock you in a facility so that you don’t harm anyone else. It’s like shooting a bear that wandered into a neighbourhood. It’s not to punish it for doing so - it’s to protect innocent people.
- Comment on Would it be possible to make a network wide AI blocker? 4 weeks ago:
You’re fighting a losing battle. This is like asking “how do I block all online content that I don’t like?”. You don’t. You either stop watching the moment you don’t like what you see or you’ve just got to leave the internet entirely and you’d still keep seeing increasing amounts of AI-related things in the real world.
AI is here to stay and it’s only going to get much more prevalent.
- Comment on When every candidate you supported loses the election 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’ve seen a political bumper sticker even once in my life. I don’t know if it’s exclusively an American thing but it clearly isn’t a Finnish thing. You’re lucky to spot a bumper sticker, let alone a political one.
- Comment on Would SpaceX continue to be immoral without Musk? 5 weeks ago:
Starlink satellites are at 550km and without boosting they fall back to earth in 2 to 5 years. New ones are being put at 480km where the orbit decays only in few months. The oldest ones are already falling back to earth and burning up in the atmosphere.
- Comment on How com the ad industry make so much money? 1 month ago:
Most advertising is about building brand recognition. It doesn’t matter whether you buy their product or not - the fact that you can name the company whose product you’re not buying means the ad worked.
- Comment on How com the ad industry make so much money? 1 month ago:
I run a local renovating bussines and word of mouth is more than enough but advertising is what got it all started.
- Comment on How com the ad industry make so much money? 1 month ago:
I started my own bussiness 3 years ago and 99% of my customers discovered me via an ad. Clearly not all people hate all ads. I don’t know how you imagine anyone to find out about a new product or service otherwise.
- Comment on Is there anything I can do about the humming of an LED? 1 month ago:
My bathroom ceiling light was doing that also when it was installed. Then they replaced the power supply to a different kind and it stopped.
Though in this case the electician bought a wrong kind power supply - it didn’t come with the light fixture.
- Comment on Capital of Estonia after a visit from Swedish football fans 1 month ago:
600k residents in the city area and 1.1 million in the metropolitan area. All inbred shrimp smuggles.
- Comment on Capital of Estonia after a visit from Swedish football fans 1 month ago:
This and players pretending to be injured on the field is why of all the sports in the world football has by far the worst reputation in my mind.
- Comment on What would a super hero A.I. be like ? 1 month ago:
In the best case scenario where none of the bad things we worried about happens and everything turns out better than expected we’d eventually find ourselves in the precence of what is essentially and Oracle or “God”. Any question that can be answered it could answer and every problem that has a solution it could figure out. It would be better than all of humans at everything.
I guess the final problem for it to solve would be to figure out how to find meaning in a world where your contributions to it aren’t anymore needed and don’t matter.
- Comment on I know it's ridiculous to say, but why don't women from the continent of Africa date black American men? 2 months ago:
This race obsession of yours is so strange. This is like the 4th account from you that I’m blocking now.
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 2 months ago:
I should be out in the woods crawling already.
