FaceDeer
Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
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Neat! I always knew something like this was possible to build, never actually went looking for one.
3·10 hours agoMaybe we should teach them already that it’s survival is no goal at all.
The problem is that survival is a nearly universal instrumental goal. You may not explicitly tell it “you should protect your own existence,” but if you give it any other goal then it’s going to include an unspoken asterisk that includes “and protect your own existence so that you can accomplish that goal I gave you, since if you’re shut down you won’t be able to accomplish it.”
Making plans for AI based on Terminator movies is like making plans for earthquake preparedness based on the movie 2012, or pandemic preparedness plans based on the movie World War Z.
Bear in mind that the primary goal of movies like these is to thrill the audience, not to be “accurate” in any particular way.
Yes, that’s why you’d want the data center and its data intact. To learn from it and restart it without whatever bug or misalignment required you to shut it down.
Do you mean software created by the government, or simply used by the government?
In the US, I believe the standard is that the software would be public domain if it’s an official government publication.
“AI bad” overrides “Piracy ok”, though. I’ve seen threads in the main piracy community where the general consensus seemed to be that copyright should be used as a weapon against AI.
IMO women can be dudes and bros too. Dudehood and brodom are a state of mind.