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My (near decade long) comment history speaks for itself. I do not primarily use HN for a culture war, but I do engage it. Despite how I try to avoid the culture war, it beat a path…

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The fact that Daghlian and Slotin died in the same hospital bed has always been a sobering thought. "Well, that does it" are harrowing words. There are famous engineering incidents…

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The asides with the dog are great. I've seen a few blogs use this technique -- I'm not big on Greek, but I think Plato used this technique too. It instills the idea that you should…

Psychiatry, having failed to measurably solve any "mental health" problem is so desperate to find a solution that it's sampling the recreational drug cabinet. This isn't science. T…

What you say here will be deeply unpopular. I have found that people treat depression and anxiety like a medical condition -- diabetes, or high cholesterol. Yet I can measure those…

Everyone's got their fairly reasonable explanations as to why this is happening. Complexity in cars driving up cost and tanking reliability. Inflation. Tight finances. Public trans…

Who cares whether it's "spying" or "surveillance"? Here's the real issue, which this semantics argument is derailing. Several times, a shooting spree has occurred, and all the gove…

People don't communicate well. They use the word "spying", when "surveillance" would be more appropriate. How would you feel if you found the past three weeks, there was someone pa…

I do believe this is the plot of Portal. Wheatley was created to stop Glados from going on a murderous rampage.

Certainly with generative AI, we've demonstrated that an evolutionary model can produce (as an example) a method for a bipedal robot to learn to balance and walk like a human. But …

You have correctly identified the underlying assumption of this discussion. From someone who has the opposite view, that human consciousness did not arise from an evolutionary proc…

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Human behavior laundering is a magnificent phrase. The only thing is you don't have to worry about this in the future, it's already here. [1] 1 - https://www.reuters.com/article/us…

Alternatively, we're reaching the point where we're creating a secondary AI to keep the first AI in check, like Wheatley and Glados.

I firmly reject that GPT is sentient, or can even tell truth. You're no better off asking it questions about society than asking a magic eight ball. And yet there's something sinis…

dang's put me on notice, so I'm walking on eggshells here. But truth isn't political. As long as we think it is, we will continue to follow the descent into madness. Truth is just …

This is like saying, "I've developed a new compass for a deep space probe to help it find North!" Our society is actively declaring that falsehoods are truth, and should be celebra…

> How is the song a violation of copyright? Few people are arguing this is an issue of copyright infringement. It's a very weak argument. > You can't sue someone for mimicking some…

It would be bad enough if they JUST denied that Drake was a victim, but they go one step further and say Drake has committed the offense! Learn to spot the DARVO tactic: Deny, accu…

No, you're not. You're dealing with principles of communism here. They're inherently nonsensical. Note the standard of justice being used. It's not, "impersonating someone to use t…

Drake's voice isn't intellectual property, it's his own identity. Drake has a right to decide what his voice says, and have a monopoly on it. The AI artist is not "harmed" because …