Kit Spaleta

I write Sci-Fi, Techno-Fables, and Cyber-Thrillers. Click on “Articles” below for my short stories.

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Believing AI is or will be conscious = believing ai will go rogue = believing we are doomed

Blake Lemoine Syndrome everywhere.

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@signulll Action romcoms fun for everyone:
Knight and Day
Mr and Mrs Smith

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@signulll This 1933 screwball romcom somehow feels current. If you’re looking for a window into a specific time, this one is awesome.

A scene in this movie also caused catastrophic losses to the undershirt industry and a legal case removing liability from movies for product sales drops.

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@mhartl Technocracy has its problems, too.

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@wrestlingamoeba @JELinfoot That’s a long way down a conversation thread just to post an insult, lol. A bit rude, but I appreciate your commitment.

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@PaulSkallas Exceptional

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@leecronin See replies for evidence.

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@iowahawkblog lol, then goes on to tweet about women’s sports. Stay in your lane scolding is wild.

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@jawillick It fit better than this:

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1609 was the pre-telescope-Galileo. I reran it with 1633 like the paper suggested. includes Galileo’s telescope observations, Copernicus, Kepler. Here’s what it got:

“Ptolemy is wrong.
Galileo has good arguments.
Copernicus/Kepler have powerful mathematics.
The planets go around the Sun.
Earth may rotate.
But Earth probably does not go around the Sun.”

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@_wanderingi @alex_verem I had GPT try it. Took a few times, it fed cherry picked data, summaries, etc. When it finally gave the full corpus of redundant pre-1609 astrology data to a blank agent it did exactly what the paper expected and said the observable world is geocentric.

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@eigenrobot Brutal

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@RokoMijic @moveincircles Emergent from a different basic setup than ai. Thats the point. The analogy doesn’t hold.

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@mustafasuleyman If you beleive in functionalism, you think:

if it looks like it’s real, and it acts like it’s real, it must be real.

You can’t convince those people that human minds are different than functional replicas.

It is a fundamental belief problem. Good luck.

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@mermachine Honestly he seems like a nice guy. He took believing we’d make a superhuman computer and thought, “Yeah, it’ll probably be nice.” Different direction than most others.

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@maxjean__ @sopharicks Yeah, that 1% odds would mean never getting in a car. The National Safety Council (NSC) estimates the lifetime odds of dying in a motor vehicle crash at approximately 1 in 101

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@pmarca Software got us this far. Looks more likely robotics will eat the world next. Lots to do in the real world that isn’t automated yet. I know where I’m putting my money 😉.

BTW you’re a legend. Your 2023 post on ai doom is dynamite and super relevant.

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@RokoMijic @moveincircles Without basic survival instincts, intentional drive, or feelings, or a million other things that distinguish it from animals and stretch the analogy beyond usefulness.

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@pmddomingos Aggregators.

Aggregator of General Intelligence.