charonn0

joined 2 years ago
[–] charonn0@startrek.website 13 points 1 month ago
[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"Old money" vs. "New money" is a particularly American concept, though.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your nervous system has finite bandwidth. The extra movement and sensation signals drown out the "need to pee" signal, making it seem less urgent. It's also why we rub the area around minor injuries to relieve pain.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 6 points 1 month 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 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

...are non-US peanut butters less viscous?

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 26 points 2 months 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 91 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 0 points 2 months ago

Information superhighway

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 6 points 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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

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