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[Egan_BW]

If you make a program that can feel emotions and just give it a reward circuit, that's not an e-drug, that's just a regular old permanently happy program.

Why not just program it to do the thing you want it to do while feeling nothing?

[toastercultist]

If you make a program that can feel emotions and just give it a reward circuit, that's not an e-drug, that's just a regular old permanently happy program.

Why not just program it to do the thing you want it to do while feeling nothing?

Now that I think of it most programs do this

[Great Order]

If you make a program that can feel emotions and just give it a reward circuit, that's not an e-drug, that's just a regular old permanently happy program.

Why not just program it to do the thing you want it to do while feeling nothing?

'Cus we're discussing getting programs hooked on drugs, not just being functional.

[Loud Whispers]

If you make a program that can feel emotions and just give it a reward circuit, that's not an e-drug, that's just a regular old permanently happy program.

Why not just program it to do the thing you want it to do while feeling nothing?

'Cus we're discussing getting programs hooked on drugs, not just being functional.

"I have made an AI that experiences withdrawal symptoms"

"Why"

"..."

[martinuzz]

It would be much more ethical than drugging up a substantial part of the US population 'volunteers' with fentanyl heroin to study withdrawal symptoms

[MaxTheFox]

Guess who's back.

I guess I ought to come back to this place. I'm mostly active elsewhere like on Mastodon but it won't hurt to give this another chance.

[Loud Whispers]

eyyy welcome back

[Eric Blank]

And good to see you! I at least was starting to worry for your safety. Like that the feds had found you or something

Got any new stories to tell?

[martinuzz]

welcome back Max

[MaxTheFox]

Sorry was busy.

And good to see you! I at least was starting to worry for your safety. Like that the feds had found you or something

Got any new stories to tell?

Don't worry I'm completely safe.

Well, over the few months I've been absent I basically rethought a lot about who I am and what I stand for and how I think about the world. There will soon be changes in my profile.

[McTraveller]

Fun fact:

The integral from 0 to infinity of e^-x with respect to x is 1.
The integral from 0 to infinity of x*e^-x with respect to x is also 1.

[Eric Blank]

RFKs brain worms are a physical manifestation of deeply embedded conspiracy theories not even slightly metaphorically but literally eating away at his sanity and through him, ours.

[Ziusudra]

How many others hav some thing like that? There's no way he's the only one, even if it's 1:1,000,000 that's still well over 8,000.

[Frumple]

WHO estimates about 2.5 million people have some form of brain worm, checking. About .03% of the world's population, basically. It's around one in three thousand, though it's not distributed evenly even a little. If they were a nation, they'd be about the 139th most populous in the world, somewhere in the region of Moldova and Gambia.

Very uncommon in any absolute sense, but large numbers are what they are.

[Il Palazzo]

The worm exists only in Kennedy's words, right? According to him, it is dead. So, possibilities:
- it ate something really disagreeable and died of poisoning. I.e., there had been something in there that was even worse than what we're left with.
- it starved to death. Seems reasonable, given the evidence.
- it never died, but took control. Has been since trying to act human and spread its brood by weakening our bodily defences. Also sensible.
- it died but is still gnawing on his lobes. I.e. it's undead. An undead brain worm in your health secretary's head - the most likely scenario.