The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Frownland

It's definitely common but I disagree with the notion that this is inherent. The biological separation makes emergent behaviours as you describe them to be less likely of an outcome imo. The sexbot doesn't actually have a sex drive (there's a good pun there that I can't quite stitch together), it's just mimicking human behaviour. The application of that mimicry using AGI is a far more realistic threat than AGI posing an existential threat to to the human race for its own self preservation.

Is a male love bot's sex drive its hard drive?

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by jwb

Autonomy is something that emerges as a property long before the kind of Intelligence that humans have. Ants are basically autonomous. Current AI is basically autonomous. Its decision making skills will only increase the more advanced you make it. And AGI by definition would be every bit as capable and adaptive in its decision making skills as a human being - or else it wouldn't qualify as AGI.

What about in terms of personal autonomy?

[jwb]

Originally Posted by Frownland

What about in terms of personal autonomy?

define personal autonomy

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

wow I can't believe that El Paso shooter drove like 10hrs just to kill Mexicans

It’s almost as if when the president holds hundreds of racist rallies where people chant and cheer racist rhetoric and hear things like we’re being invaded by bad hombres and murderers and rapists that in a country of three hundred million some people might react exactly how you you’d expect them to react if they believe what the president is saying.

[jwb]

So that's 3 mass shootings in a week, during the run up to the Democratic primaries. Maybe things won't just blow over this time around. Who knows.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by jwb

So that's 3 mass shootings in a week, during the run up to the Democratic primaries. Maybe things won't just blow over this time around. Who knows.

You counting Chicago?

[jwb]

Does anybody ever count them? Gang killings don't mean **** to this country.

It's mass shootings the Dems use for gun control rhetoric. Banning AR15s, better background checks, banning extended clips.. none of this matters that much to the gangs.

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

We don’t know if they’re conscious. I personally think they are.

They are. They don't really work how JWB says. Ants have been known to war over which female should become a queen and the queen doesn't actually tell them what to do. Bees are very similar.

[OccultHawk]

I suppose a lot if you have seen this but the killer in Dayton was in a pretty successful “pornogrind” band

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.vi...-killing-women

Over the past year, the 24-year-old shooter occasionally performed live vocals in the band Menstrual Munchies, which released albums titled “6 Ways of Female Butchery” and “Preeteen Daughter Pu$$y Slaughter,” with cover art showing the rape and massacre of female bodies.

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Menstrual Munchies often performed with other regional acts like Necro Cannibal Ass Grinder, Bill Nye da Nazi Spy, and **** Torch, playing festivals like the Pornfieldz of Illinoise Grindfest or a former venue in Columbia, Missouri, called UPS

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This next one is pretty funny/ironic

“And then we get people like this, who, you know, are ****ing sick in the head, who get into our scene and ended up killing nine people and almost, you know, putting a bad name on our scene. And that's not fair for the rest of us.”

[jwb]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

They are. They don't really work how JWB says. Ants have been known to war over which female should become a queen and the queen doesn't actually tell them what to do. Bees are very similar.

I think you just misunderstood me. Many types of ants and bees operate collectively as a colony because their genetic lineage flows through the queen. I never suggested the queen gives orders.

It's not that an individual ant or bee has no decision making mechanisms, they just behave more predictably and follow pretty simple rules. It takes the colony as a whole to make more complex decisions, such as picking a suitable nest site.