Random Talk Thread, MK. IV

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#5319

I would not be too sure Jefe, at least not according to this horrifying propaganda video I just discovered on the squirrelnet deep web.

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We bring you this exciting footage of our cunning plan to end the demon we call large shouty not squirrel Jefe once and for all.

Here is some footage we captured of one of our daring troops battling even the harshest terrain, nothing can stop our squirrel guys and gals from taking the fight to the demon Jefe.

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We will first of all install this in the garden in the dead of night.

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This is a what we call a Trojan - Squirrel. Outwardly it appears to be a nice gift of truce to Jefe. Inside this statue of friendship shall be …

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A full army of our top secret Transformer Squirrels, led by Squirelmus Prime. Not even the mighty denier of the oak that is Jefe stands a chance. Mwhahahahahaah mwhahahahah (completely nutty laugh)

Then finally will come the day when the garden is once again ours and we are free at last to …

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Smell the flowers.

Viva la resistance. Squirrel power!

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#5320

Viva La Squirrelution!

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#5321

This sounds suspiciously like the empty promise of Che Capybara or the Rodent Spring that has utterly failed in the Middle East. A power vacuum always results in anarchy! They need me!

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#5322

Humans. Messing up machines since the lever, fulcrum, pulley, and inclined plane.

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#5323

The integration of extremely complicated mechanism into human life is inevitable… As such the intermediary intelligence represented by these things are similarly inevitable.

This is the first stage order, eventually human minds will be the bottleneck, and biotechnology* will be set forth as the solution… Past that the distinctions between our mechanisms, machine intelligences and ourselves will become increasingly meaningless.

Edit:

*This is why Mars is so important… We need a sufficiently insulated environment to experiment on…

Risking annihilation of the Earth sphere is unacceptable.

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#5324

One day, we’ll all be assimilated.

Resistance is futile.

#5325

False, individualism has always had a greater rate of survival vs hive.

Even amongst the most robust social systems in nature on earth abandonment of individualism is pure folly. Even if reproductive functionality isn’t necessary.

The borg are very, very unlikely.

Outside of viral functionality they lack the means to exist without carrier species, and on galactic scales life does not exist with the abundance necessary for pathogenic morphology.

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#5326

You are right.

I doubt it will ever happen. Just like with Skynet.

The closet thing we have to cybernetics are those exoskeletons that are used for industrial and medical purposes.

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#5327

Random thoughts:

I wish Wizards would go back to having white boarders on their Magic the Gathering core sets. I loved that look.

I think Gretzky and Jordan will always be the GOATs of their sports.

Here is a cat picture:

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That’s all I got.

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#5328

Yet it is terrifying that governments around the world are trying to make sure they are the first to get the AI tech to put in things like this.

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That ■■■■ will be the worst advancement in warfare since the nuke.

Machines with totally autonomous kill descisions.

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#5329

terminator-2-robot

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#5330

Jesus ■■■■■■■ ■■■■.

There is no such thing as “AI” and we need to quit pretending there is until we make the wetware that we shouldn’t make.

“Machine Learning” is the best we’ve got, and even that is a stretch.

■■■■ you metadata.

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#5331

You are of course right… Even machine learning is fundamentally nothing more than a more robust “self iterating” I/O.

That said, if quantum computing technology ever does become a stable architecture then I would expect something approaching a legitimate (or at least arguably so) AI much much sooner… For a few reasons…

But like the tech in question quantum computing is also not yet a proven technology.

But then again the average human being is totally unequipped to perform a valid Turing test anyway… So as long as it meets the criteria of the unwashed masses I suppose we already have “AI” according to the majority…

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#5332

The new Razr was unveiled yesterday, and it’s going to be sold exclusively at Verizon in the US for the incredible price of $1,500.

#5333

No! It ■■■■■■■ won’t be! I don 't give a ■■■■ about task speed, integer math, or making modern computing look like a ■■■■■■■ abacus. If you think that humanity or sentence boils down to anything that makes computational sense, then Ive got 7 million pedophiles, 2,000 nuns, 5% of America’s damp weight in incels, 4 million non profit workers, and the entire dangling nutsack of a state that is Florida who’d like a word.

Or there’s just a lot of modern learning algorithms that a very smart scientist didn’t think would exist so quickly that pass the stupid test because the societal contract makes us trust polite non threatening voices who aren’t here to talk to us about the lord or chemtrails. Turing did a lit of things right, but I hardly blame a test made by a man who died before apple existed for being ■■■■ at calculating machine thought.

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#5334

BL3 DLC tease.

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#5335

What is this, an Eton college IT lesson?! :rofl:

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#5336

Eton? They’re all ruddy robots!

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#5337

If only Boris could be reprogrammed…

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#5338

Maybe he has an alternative personality, like Eddie the shipboard computer on ‘Heart of Gold’? Although if it’s anything like Eddie, that might not be an improvement…