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LOL oh lordy, here is the correct story, thanks... -
russ_watters reacted to Dale's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with
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Because if you do not disclose it then that is deceptive (plagairsim). Because if you do disclose it other people may not bother reading... -
russ_watters reacted to Dale's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
AI does not need to have anything near human-level intelligence to cause harm. I think that it would be more productive to focus on the...
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russ_watters reacted to Dale's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
We have not benefited from electricity, aviation, or any major technology without recognizing the actual and potential risks and...
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russ_watters reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread High School RocketGirl receives a radio message from Earth with Like.
@smaricic your latest post referencing Brian Greene's lecture on SR has been deleted, since its content makes clear that we all are...
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russ_watters reacted to Nugatory's post in the thread High School RocketGirl receives a radio message from Earth with Like.
And a comment about the thread title: this is not a twin paradox variation, the age difference seen in the twin paradox has nothing to...
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russ_watters reacted to Ibix's post in the thread Thought Experiment: What Lies Beyond the Furthest Object in Space? with Like.
Just a note on terminology: topologically, the Earth is a ball and its surface is a sphere. You can study a sphere without assuming the...
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russ_watters reacted to Ibix's post in the thread Thought Experiment: What Lies Beyond the Furthest Object in Space? with Like.
No, in this model the surface of the ball is the universe. It's 2d, and there is no "inside" or "outside" the surface except when people...
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russ_watters reacted to Ibix's post in the thread Thought Experiment: What Lies Beyond the Furthest Object in Space? with Like.
Our current best models suggest that the universe is more or less the same everywhere, and it is either infinite in extent or a "closed"...
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In an article from Northwestern University, engineers have designed a blurry drone and built a prototype. The photo below is a...
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russ_watters reacted to Dale's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
No. This is the same as with any technology. You cannot manage the risks by wholly focusing on the humans nor by wholly focusing on the...
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russ_watters reacted to Dale's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
I agree with this and note that the question of “intelligence” is largely irrelevant to this most important issue. It is also not...
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russ_watters reacted to Astronuc's post in the thread Realta Fusion claims electrical generation from plasma! with Like.
Update/Edit: I corrected the title by replacing 'fusion' with 'plasma' to accurately to indicate fusion was not invovled. It is...
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Here is what I noticed when I lived in a northern US state and parked my car in my driveway on a cold, clear, still, winter night: In...
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Good example. The Turing test is another case of a degenerate concept riddled with ambiguity. For example, ChatGPT passes the Turing...