hnm
1yr ago
It is telling that Google's practical use of AI (from what I've experienced) is always a downgrade compared to nothing at all. Searches now use AI to try to gauge what you really want from a search, but this makes searching for specific strings of text worse than it was a decade ago. And what they've done with YouTube is a travesty; half the time if I reply to a comment with a paragraph of text their malicious/harmful/offensive(?) text AI detector automatically deletes it because (I assume) it doesn't like some combination of words I used. I don't trust Google with employing any kind of AI.
hnm
1yr ago
I'm not sure exactly what you mean when you say "singularity", but for me a post-scarcity world involving the singularity would really be more post-human (or post-singularity, which is more apt of a term for the time period after the singularity). I see a post-singularity world as one where humans are all uploaded, the Earth is just one system made of computronium-like material, and the whole system is administrated by a sort of "mother" ASI singleton.
Obviously resources will always be finite, unless the AI is able to make some sort of godlike breakthrough only capable of an entity like it; solving the heat death of the universe should be a priority of it, and creating matter out of nothing with some sort of mini big bang (i.e. magic) would simultaneously solve the finite resource problem.
Your example does touch on something I have thought about a lot, which is the idea of true freedom in a post-singularity system. With humans there is always a disconnect with what one "wants" to do and what one actually wants to do. If someone asks the mother AI to create some sort of simulated universe that is a great deal larger than our own, and fill it with Playstation 5s (or better yet, an assortment of random objects in which no two are alike), the request may be denied even if the finite resource problem had been already solved at the time, because the person asking is only trying to challenge the AI with some stubborn thought experiment and doesn't actually want to interact with anything they're creating. There's also the problem of creating new people - especially when it comes to morally questionable requests. I'd assume the AI would grant these requests, but would hand out p-zombies depending on the nature of them.
Though I don't think I can argue too well for it, I do believe that a post-singularity system would have access to at least the collective matter/energy of our whole solar system at first, and would be able to siphon more from other stars. And I believe that there would be no reasonable requests that would strain the system, probably for any duration of the post-singularity time period.
Despite the growing number of moralists on the site (mostly from /pol/), 4chan has largely always been a pro-freedom site (though some refer to it as anarchic, and I would agree it was in the early days), therefore anything that threatens a user's freedom at all is going to be met with backlash. The Twitter users struck first, now they are the main villain, and will be met with vitriol and name-calling as all villains are. It has nothing to do with 4chan Anons being jealous of artists, and I doubt most of them value AI art as anything beyond "this is cool and why would you take this away from me I want to use thing that is cool".
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