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A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes
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Re: A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes
#62This is just like the CBT mindfulness technique for defusing from unwelcome thoughts. Imagine the painful discussion going on in your head is being carried out by the Ducktails kids or something ridiculous. To draw attention to the fact that they are just words.
It would be cool to see some bot like this to feed in unwanted thoughts and get back a cartoon.. there are so many great things we could be doing with computing to redefine our selves and our interfaces with world and others, but all we got so far is thins reinforcing the same old tired power relations of yore
Re: A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes
#63Too bad it isn’t Reddit, I’d love to see the weightlifters arguing over how many days are in a week.
For those 10,000[0] who don't get this reference: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751&pa...
Re: A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes
#64I've wondered if the AI superintelligence everyone is watching out for is actually slowly being built from the bottom up, and encompasses evening in the entire world. Deep Thought from Hitchhiker's Guide is seeming more and more plausible to me. Perhaps this bot that makes Reddit videos doesn't do anything "useful" per se, but it is doing what a human might otherwise do, and adds itself to Reddit as an entity that co…
I've looked at various political debate subreddits over the past few years. But over time I considered how these spaces could be used nefariously. If I were a propagandist, I'd throw all of this content into some deep learning doohickey and let it generate sample responses for my army of trolls, and let them quickly edit the best samples to create more complicated arguments more quickly, until the bots are consistent enough to run amok as truly convincing persons.
Kinda like when after Kasparov lost to Deep Blue, there was a thought for a while that chess tournaments would include humans working with a computer model to help them make decisions. For some time a human working together with a computer to make decisions was superior against a human or computer alone -- this hasn't been the case for a while now as chess models advanced.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Can any single person turn off the internet or prevent everyone else from using their phones/screens for hours every day? Google "ICANN" https://deadline.com/2020/07/internet-down-outage-cloudflare... https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-serv...
Are you implying Google did it on purpose to prevent this super-intelligence from taking over? To me it seems like the opposite, the outage was untintentional and then humans worked really hard to fix it. It's almost as if we were the cells of the body of this super-intelligence.
> Are you implying Google did it on purpose to prevent this super-intelligence from taking over?
Why are you reading that from what I said? I wasn't responding to the superintelligence thing (as I hadn't quoted it), and that seems like the weirdest reading from what I responded to.
The claim was: "Can any single person turn off the internet or prevent everyone else from using their phones/screens for hours every day?"
And I responded with proof that that is marginally possible. Probably not a single person, but a well-trained well-connected group could do it very easily.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you implying Google did it on purpose to prevent this super-intelligence from taking over? To me it seems like the opposite, the outage was untintentional and then humans worked really hard to fix it. It's almost as if we were the cells of the body of this super-intelligence.
> Are you implying Google did it on purpose to prevent this super-intelligence from taking over? Why are you reading that from what I said? I wasn't responding to the superintelligence thing (as I hadn't quoted it), and that seems like the weirdest reading from what I responded to. The claim was: "Can any single person turn off the internet or prevent everyone else from using their phones/screens for hours every day?…
I understand. However, what I'm saying is that even if that capability exists, in practice it doesn't matter, as it is something that we will never act on becauae we've already been taken over.
That outage example shows that people will immediately act to restore, preserve and expand the system, never destroy it.
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#67I've wondered if the AI superintelligence everyone is watching out for is actually slowly being built from the bottom up, and encompasses evening in the entire world. Deep Thought from Hitchhiker's Guide is seeming more and more plausible to me. Perhaps this bot that makes Reddit videos doesn't do anything "useful" per se, but it is doing what a human might otherwise do, and adds itself to Reddit as an entity that co…
Apparently it's not running anymore, but https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/ is sort of apropos. It's an entirely bot-generated subreddit. You can still read through the old posts.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually the original series is from Game Boy Advance, but the GBA games were never released outside of Japan. Nintendo DS ports were the first one releases in the rest of the world. BTW, I am a great fan of the series, really recommend it.
Did you know that it's actually a rather pointed parody/criticism of the Japanese justice system? I had no idea myself! Perhaps I was the only one who didn't know. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap... The conviction rate in Japan is over 99% -- going to "trial" is essentially the same as being found guilty. The prosecuting attorneys have a lot of discretion over what is prosecuted, and are…
What is the right conviction rate?
Your article says that a study of every legal case since WWII found that it was due to prosecutors not trying uncertain cases, which would seem to be a good thing for the innocent.
There are criticisms about allegedly forced confessions and such, but that seems to be unrelated to the conviction rate itself.
Re: A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes
#69I've wondered if the AI superintelligence everyone is watching out for is actually slowly being built from the bottom up, and encompasses evening in the entire world. Deep Thought from Hitchhiker's Guide is seeming more and more plausible to me. Perhaps this bot that makes Reddit videos doesn't do anything "useful" per se, but it is doing what a human might otherwise do, and adds itself to Reddit as an entity that co…
Apparently it's not running anymore, but https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/ is sort of apropos. It's an entirely bot-generated subreddit. You can still read through the old posts.
It got replaced by https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/, which is significantly more coherent.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you implying Google did it on purpose to prevent this super-intelligence from taking over? To me it seems like the opposite, the outage was untintentional and then humans worked really hard to fix it. It's almost as if we were the cells of the body of this super-intelligence.
> Are you implying Google did it on purpose to prevent this super-intelligence from taking over? Why are you reading that from what I said? I wasn't responding to the superintelligence thing (as I hadn't quoted it), and that seems like the weirdest reading from what I responded to. The claim was: "Can any single person turn off the internet or prevent everyone else from using their phones/screens for hours every day?…
> but a well-trained well-connected group could do it very easily.
Yes, but we would send in armed troops to stop them and reverse their actions.
I guess your point is the Super Intelligence has fully infiltrated our government, military and law enforcement.
It is far more than just the internet.