• Against Cause
    I guess newton's "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" makes more sense than cause, i tend to think of everything as reactions.
  • Do you think AI is going to be our downfall?


    I purposefully decide not to use ai sometimes for this reason, for example, if you need a little piece of specific info, sometimes google is better.
  • Do you think AI is going to be our downfall?
    Even though I do think there are issues with "A.I." (advanced chat bots and robotic automation), people have been saying it's going to take everyone's jobs for years, and people tend to react that way to new technologies. I don't think it's capable of taking most jobs, it mostly just changes the ways that people work. For example, with all our robotic advancement, you still need people to plant crops and even program computers. A.I. is created for specific tasks, I think AGI is just science fiction that can't really exist because machines by definition can only obey their programming.

    However, there are a lot of problems A.I. is creating:

    -as some have already stated, lack of motivation for being truly creative. It makes some tasks like creating an image or writing an essay seem trivial and that "A.I. can do it". This will not stop people from being creative, but it makes it seem less worthwhile.

    -even less of a motivation to get out of your own comfort zone and talk to a real person, this will create problems for mental health.

    -trust in A.I.'s wisdom. It does generate false information and people will believe what it generates as a mass without questioning it.

    -an even greater tendency to look at everything as a sea of data, which is the basic perspective of the A.I. itself.

    ...there are of course some positive effects of A.I., such as no longer needing to deal with irritable people who are prickly about being asked "obvious questions", and an even quicker access to information. It's somewhat unclear what kind of future artificial intelligence will create for the human race.
  • Currently Reading
    Dawn by Nietzsche. Has a lot of interesting insights, but some verifiably false.
  • Sleeping Beauty Problem
    So if the last coin flip doesn't effect the outcome, doesn't that mean it's always 50/50? If i understand correctly, getting heads the first time means it's over, which balances getting tails twice in a row, and the last one is 50/50.

    It is a confusing issue, do there exist methods for keeping sleeping beauty from remembering the other days in the experiment?
  • The Mind-Created World
    It's true that by existing, we effect things, and perception influences our surroundings. The observer effects what it observes.

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