lukes4062

Exponential decay of hope: H(t)=H₀e^(–λt)

[Naval @naval]

The time to be most ambitious is when you have nothing to lose or nothing left to gain.

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@juergentron999 @ToKTeacher yes, reality is mostly an illusion. deep in the abyss of the Planck length lies the quantum foam, where nothing seems to make sense

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@ToKTeacher @michaelshermer @Quillette @clairlemon thank you for replying, good points
(although im not totally convinced)

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@ToKTeacher @michaelshermer @Quillette @clairlemon then it is a chaotic, scary and unforgiving universe; if there is no God, no Superintelligence that can save us (if we figure out AI alignment), it's all meaningless and there is nothing at the end of the tunnel, only inifinite void and darkness

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@ToKTeacher @peer_rich @PessimistsArc Mr.Brett, sorry, but you often sound like Pangloss from Candide, who used to say "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds"

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@tszzl the long nightmare is over and we are finally entering the era of leisure life

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@MillionInt ilya sutskever?

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@dela3499 i keep thinking that there is something irreducible that is missing, which sets all the complex machiney of agi in motion, and it probably has to do with consciousness and subjective experience

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@Andercot @TOEwithCurt omg

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@Liv_Boeree it's not necessarily a ticking time bomb, it all depends in how well they manage the influx of immigrant workers

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@Liv_Boeree im confused

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@dela3499 hmm... shouldn't you also explore the fundamental question of consciousness?
namely, what is it and what is its role

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@tszzl i guess the dream of a universal basic income is over, for the next 20 years at least

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@Liv_Boeree with that in mind, i also want to add that a sense of duty or status or external validations are not good reasons to have kids

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@Liv_Boeree Next century? Liv, aging will not even be a problem anymore by the next century, automation level will be at, or close to, 100% of tasks (including parenting); at which point (surely by 2080), global population can keep growing steadily even with birth rate below 2

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@Liv_Boeree from all the various dangers & risks, this is not the thing that will cause human extinction

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@Liv_Boeree i'd say Bitcoin and Ethereum, for the most part

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@adcock_brett you look healthy

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@realjoshuareid @TOEwithCurt this is terrifying; the possibility that life and consciousness are an inevitable prison and, consequently, that suffering is unavoidable.
cosmic horror.

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@leecronin @DavidDeutschOxf yes