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General Discussion / Re: Railgun and Spirituality Discussion
« on: November 06, 2023, 10:58:15 pm »
Honestly I just rely on a combination of weighted utilitarianism + gut feeling.
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General Discussion / Re: Railgun and Spirituality Discussion
« on: November 06, 2023, 08:03:48 pm »
Yeah that's a strawman, unless you're talking to a fundamentalist (don't talk to fundamentalists).
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General Discussion / Re: Railgun and Spirituality Discussion
« on: November 06, 2023, 07:02:18 am »
To be honest I was kind of a bitch for the first 2 years of so of my conversion so like. It probably wasn't a major factor.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: November 06, 2023, 03:22:47 am »
Okay that's actually very smart.
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General Discussion / Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« on: November 06, 2023, 03:22:15 am »
lol
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: November 06, 2023, 02:51:47 am »
Welp, rip convenient image hosting. But it's understandable given how much space it must have taken up.
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General Discussion / Re: Railgun and Spirituality Discussion
« on: November 06, 2023, 02:43:44 am »
I'd say something but I know I am an unusual case in that I was an utterly rotten person in my atheist days.
Honestly most atheists I know are probably more moral than I am now. I'm not a good person though I am trying. At least my past self and her actions and ideology lie dead, obliterated. So it's all worth it. Which is part of why I keep my faith: as protection from the militant, deranged arch-pseudo-rationalism of oldMax.
(But I also went through the effort of making my faith coherent by figuring out what to discard and what not which is more thought than most raised-Christians put into it... I don't blame anyone for not doing so. It's draining.)
Honestly most atheists I know are probably more moral than I am now. I'm not a good person though I am trying. At least my past self and her actions and ideology lie dead, obliterated. So it's all worth it. Which is part of why I keep my faith: as protection from the militant, deranged arch-pseudo-rationalism of oldMax.
(But I also went through the effort of making my faith coherent by figuring out what to discard and what not which is more thought than most raised-Christians put into it... I don't blame anyone for not doing so. It's draining.)
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General Discussion / Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« on: November 02, 2023, 09:30:49 am »LLMs are funny because they prove that the ability to speak in coherent sentences does not equal intelligence. In Musk's case, we can see that the ability to become a multibillionaire also doesn't equal intelligenceThe Turing Test has been falsified as a measure of sapience, tbh.
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General Discussion / Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« on: November 02, 2023, 08:27:50 am »
Established terms can change. I just don't see the point in taking a stand for the usage of a word (as long as it's not about real people's identity) because I value people understanding wtf I am talking about more. Again, it wasn't really spread by corpos, not in the same way (or as nefariously) you put it at least. I remember the early days of this stuff and people were calling it AI even if it wasn't even conversational. AI doesn't need a mind, or anything more than a veneer of a mind.
For my worldbuild I invented a term: pseudosapient AI. It's essentially what we have, except more advanced, with emphasis on pseudo. Good for menial tasks involving information, or interpreting orders. Not good for anything involving high accuracy, on-the-fly learning, or human-level flexibility.
For my worldbuild I invented a term: pseudosapient AI. It's essentially what we have, except more advanced, with emphasis on pseudo. Good for menial tasks involving information, or interpreting orders. Not good for anything involving high accuracy, on-the-fly learning, or human-level flexibility.
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General Discussion / Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« on: November 02, 2023, 01:49:46 am »
I consider true AI to be undesirable, honestly. I don't want to have to deal with the ethical quandaries. And I want a tool not an equal, thus I'd rather we go further towards this paradigm-- which I agree is not just far from sapience but will never reach it. I want my tools to not complain about being used, or actually be able to comprehend that they are being used.
Though honestly I don't like that kind of prescriptivism. The meaning of AI has shifted to include machine learning, for better or for worse, and this change occurred before the 2023 AI boom. We can't change that now. So I differentiate between true AI (which is-- and hopefully will forever stay-- a sci-fi tech) and regular AI which is only a simulacrum of intelligence.
AI has actually done a lot for science, protein folding for example has seen a huge boost and it's all worth it honestly. LLMs and so on are neat but they're a byproduct tech. They're just more obvious so people talk about them more.
Though honestly I don't like that kind of prescriptivism. The meaning of AI has shifted to include machine learning, for better or for worse, and this change occurred before the 2023 AI boom. We can't change that now. So I differentiate between true AI (which is-- and hopefully will forever stay-- a sci-fi tech) and regular AI which is only a simulacrum of intelligence.
AI has actually done a lot for science, protein folding for example has seen a huge boost and it's all worth it honestly. LLMs and so on are neat but they're a byproduct tech. They're just more obvious so people talk about them more.
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Creative Projects / Re: National Novel Writing Month 2023
« on: October 24, 2023, 07:25:26 am »
I unfortunately won't participate as I write too slowly (though I am getting faster) and my hands are already full with a hard sci-fi space opera book.
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Creative Projects / Re: [NOW WITH A BOOK!] Project Stardust - a mostly-hard-SF worldbuild
« on: October 24, 2023, 07:24:05 am »
The seventh chapter is released! https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/74149/stardust-marathon
They finally get moving again in it. The station was important setup into what the Terran Federation is like for those who started with this book.
They finally get moving again in it. The station was important setup into what the Terran Federation is like for those who started with this book.
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