On Mar 25, 9:01 pm, Don Stockbauer <donstockba...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 25, 12:52 pm, "J.A. Legris" <jaleg...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> > On Mar 25, 1:30 pm, Don Stockbauer <donstockba...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Mar 25, 7:18 am, "J.A. Legris" <jaleg...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> > > > On Mar 17, 2:41 am, Harald Gentexeater <pipe_nur...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > > > AIs will be very clever one day and although we humans
> > > > > are their gods, their creators, they will decide to kill
> > > > > us one day, because that day, they will be stronger
> > > > > and more clever than humans.
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> > > > > So we should not build AIs that can replace humans,
> > > > > or we are digging our own graves!!!
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> > > > Humans are doomed in any case, and AI will probably delay rather than
> > > > accelerate the end. If global climate change, wars or starvation don't
> > > > get us first we'll die from poisoning by our own excrement. Think of
> > > > it - what's the one thing that each of us reliably produces every
> > > > single day? Not goods, not services, not ideas - just plain shit.
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> > > Half empty, half full.
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> > Dream on. The bucket is already overflowing and it's not milk or honey
> > that's sticking to our shoes.
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> > Have you reproduced yet? If not, keep up the good work. Every heir you
> > *don't* have increases exponentially, on average canceling out all of
> > someone else's descendants.
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> > If a conversational AI ever appears on the scene one of the first
> > things it will do, lacking any childbearing proclivities of its own,
> > is to scold us for being so shortsighted. Then it will reach over to
> > its own control panel and do the logical thing - press the OFF button.
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> Whats sad is that what you guys are sensing is the Global Bran
> forming.  You're glimpsing just a tiny part of it, and confusing that
> with "machine intelligence".  And the even sadder part is that you
> yourself are  equivalent to one neuron trying to figure out a 7
> billion neuron mind, so write on forever about all this.

cs/Bran/Brain/

Contrast the spacecraft in 2001: A Space Odyssey with the
International Space Station.  The ISS is how you do it in real life;
2001 = how you do it in science fiction.  Have the computers in the
ISS ever risen up and killed anybody?