charonn0

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 4 hours ago

Assuming it survives the fall to the bottom of the elevator shaft, the building management should be able to retrieve it for you.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 26 points 3 weeks ago

Reminds me of the old trick on HTML forms where you use CSS to make one of the form fields invisible to humans and reject any submission that filled in that field.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 92 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Dragons, giants, monsters, that sort of thing. They weren't entirely wrong.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

It's pretty much as clean going into the pipe as it is coming out. Water pipes are kept pressurized so that any cracks or breaks push water out instead of letting contaminants in.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

The problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it's bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.

otherwise we would just switch it off

If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Pirate King: HE DID?!? ... oh... oh, yes so he did... I was there.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you'd like to highlight?

[–] charonn0@startrek.website -2 points 3 months ago

Ctrl-F "plato"

Required reading

?

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 8 points 4 months ago

Yet Trump can declassify documents by thought alone.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 132 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"Here come the test results: 'You are a horrible person'. That's what it says, 'a horrible person'. We weren't even testing for that!"

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 7 points 9 months ago

It could certainly be used as evidence in your favor. Whether it by itself would be enough to exonerate you would depend on things like the evidence against you and how much weight the jury gave to your records.

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