Wrong decade bro...

Still hiding today

Meh. Leaving out the rest of the date. August 29, 1997. Why does everyone worry about the clankers(sarcasm, just in case you're sensitive) and not about the rich fuckers already controlling everything including those death panels they went on about. I wonder if the clankers would actually be more compassionate than what we have now. I'll be dead within the decade, doubt I'll find out.

We've had this conversation.

Ten years ago I wrote a blog piece about the notion of computers gaining sentience. One of the problems is we don't actually know how to define or test for sentience (id est, consciousness or self awareness). For most of human history, it was so clear to us whether or not we were engaged with another human being, sentience seemed intuitively obvious.

I get a little into the bushes about qualia (such as the quality of the hue of red rather than it's composition as #FF0000) but even that concept is functionally shallow, and only serves as a way to differentiate human intelligence from non-human intelligence.

We've seen bigots use this kind of notion to argue, say, that Chinese people don't think the same as western folk, or more recently that neurodivergents don't think the same way as normal people.

Coincidentally, I happen to be watching families at play through a chain link fence at the moment.

I don’t know family members birthdays, but I’ve had this in my calendar for years:

1997

Everyone knows Judgement Day was successfully postponed until July 25, 2004.

That was 5 minutes ago. I am not dead yet

Geometric rate?

At a geometric.. rate ?

AI will kill us differently than skynet, its not really the AI, its the capitalism

Epstein time

As the nukes come flying in you just shout "is there a seahorse emoji"

If Skynet was based on today's "AI" I don't know how it would be the same threat. Like bad, sure. But also reaaaaaly dumb at the same time.

And all we get are data centers.