Squidward
10mo ago
Not sure what's hard to understand about this?
The part where "never buy a monitor again" sounds pretty good, when it seems like you're just buying one extra monitor to wear on your face.
Squidward
10mo ago
Or, as many have suggested, it’s some limited meat for the base (much of it, see the birthright citizenship thing, will be held up in the courts or stopped outright) before two years of business as usual, the likely losing of the house and then an excuse for two more years of nothing before someone else is elected.
A few years ago all they had to look forward to was being cancelled from the internet, debanked, and left to post on 4chan while eating beans out of a can bought with pennies from a sock.
Things are looking up.
Squidward
10mo ago
So what happened to never buying a monitor again? You're still going to own a regular screen for every use case where having it tied to your face isn't optimal (might want more than one person to see it, don't want to be blind to the world, etc.) plus this extra screen you tie to your face so you can pretend you're surfin' the cyberworld.
Squidward
10mo ago
It's a small monitor you tie to your face. That's it. Unless your traveling businessman owns a laptop with no screen, he's actually buying an extra monitor.
Squidward
10mo ago
this has been the dream of silicon valley and cyberpunk for several decades at this point
As far as I can tell this is essentially the entire reason the concept continues to even hang on at all despite the almost total lack of any meaningful use case outside of some niche video game crap. Ask what business purpose the technology serves and maybe you hear something about virtual meetings. Ask why anyone would bother when Zoom and the like already exist and you hear crickets. It's a solution looking for problems that don't exist.
Squidward
10mo ago
Hey if you're rich old and famous, why not be a horrible lech? Social capital is just another currency you can't take to the grave with you, may as well spend it on something fun.
Squidward
10mo ago
I mean a lot of the Woke stuff is anti-Christian as well, and most serious Christians avoid exposure to that kind of media and so on. They don’t drive through crowds.
Christianity also gets pissed on and blasphemed in its home countries a million times a day in media and culture, nobly turning the other cheek year after year as it shrinks. I'm not religious myself, I'm just saying it's not totally inscrutable why a fanatical Muslim might not consider it an example to emulate.
Squidward
11mo ago
We can torture a computer terminal all day without causing the LLM it is connected to any distress. It's nonsense to talk about it having physical sensation. On the other hand, (to look at your question about the "meat-limit,") we can take a very simple organism, or one that likely does not have a consciousness, and it will respond instantly if we torture it.
This seems less like a philosophically significant matter of classification and more like a mere difference in function. The organism is controlled by an intelligence optimized to maneuver a physical body through an environment, and part of that optimization includes reactions to external damage.
Well, so what? We could optimize an AI to maneuver a little robot around an unknown environment indefinitely without it being destroyed, and part of that optimization would probably involve timely reaction to the perception of damage. Then you could jab it with a hot poker and watch it spin around, or what have you.
But again, so what? Optimizing an AI toward steering a robot around the environment doesn't make it any smarter or fundamentally more real, at least not in my view.
Squidward
11mo ago
women wearing snuggies in public
I find that hot so I'm all for it.
Are you sure you know what a snuggie is?
Squidward
11mo ago
the guy who was head of the Kong family in the 1930's was offered the chance to become Japan's puppet Chinese emperor (he wisely refused and fled)
He knew that if King Kong came to Japan, Godzilla would surely follow.
Squidward
11mo ago
It's a hypothetical that boils down to a scenario where the resources for law enforcement are near-infinite versus one where they aren't. Grocery stores having security guards doesn't mean we can reduce all prison terms to a week-long timeout and expect to be fine.
Squidward
11mo ago
Consider a hypothetical: Prison sentences are capped at a week, max. But, within a minute of attempting to shoplift or steal a car, the police arrest you, take back the stuff you stole, and send you to jail. What do you think would happen to crime? Conversely, consider another hypothetical: Life sentences for stealing at all, but you'll be arrested and put to jail sometime around five years after you steal. What do you think happens to crime, given how bad at planning for the future low IQ criminals are? I think crime in the first scenario would be much lower than today, and crime in the second scenario much higher.
You're treating the situation as if there exist a pair of control sliders marked "prison time" and "policing power" and that if you slide the former down to 0/10, then you're automatically able to slide the latter up to 10/10 and create godlike supercops. In reality the sliders are demarcated in dollars or man-hours rather than in simple outcome generation, and there isn't enough money in the world (much less in the prison budget) to create a police force of infinite capability that solves every crime in sixty seconds.
I don't know if I'm necessarily That Guy, really... but you know, ahem ahem, cough cough... it does sort of look like one of the two American political factions had certain elements of itself turn on the Jews and was cast down more or less instantly for its trouble. Meanwhile the other faction can have one of its standard-bearers spaz out and look like he's sieg heiling in public and the ADL will run defense for him as long as Israel keeps getting bombs and the campus "anti-semites" get deported.
Just saying. It's not not what happened. No I don't care who 70% of dentists and divorce lawyers voted for.
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