I’m just offering an explanation as to the lack of response on that topic; I don’t think I’ve been voted down on that subject largely because I’ve taken care to avoid it; I don’t want to get banned for trolling. That sort of thing’s happened to me before.
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I’m a little surprised nobody has commented on the sex difference yet. Any ideas about its significance? We can only speculate, of course, but when has that ever stopped anyone?
Probably because they didn’t want to get negative karma for appearing misogynistic.
Wouldn’t the Second Law of Thermodynamics mean that transferring entropy this way would, in turn, generate entropy in its own right? You might be able to make the universe last longer, but I don’t think you’d be able to make it last forever. Even if you could, though, you’d still run into the problem of proton decay eventually.
Wasn’t this on the Singularity Institute’s website before? I could swear I’ve already read this paper somewhere else.
That is fascinating; the doctors in question should definitely apply for a research grant to help decrease the medical costs involved; they’re an invaluable source of medical information. The potential benefits to DNI technologies would be staggering.
Any other possible effects don’t negate that you’re killing six million people when you’re going ahead with a potentially UnFriendly AI.
(chapter 57)
Did Harry just Transfigure a shotgun?
Define “sufficiently low”; with even a 99.9% chance of success, you’ve still got a .1% chance of killing every human alive; that’s morally equivalent to a 100% chance of killing 6.5 million people. Saying that if you’re not totally sure that if you’re not totally sure that your AI is Friendly when you start it up, you’re committing the Holocaust was not hyperbole in any way, shape, or form. It’s simply the result of shutting up and doing the multiplication.
I, personally, think that you’ve misunderstood something. It’s not that designing a non-provably Friendly AI is almost certain to destroy humanity, it’s that it’s possible and it’s good engineering practice is to assume the worst is going to happen and design based on that.
So, “If they can hurt me, they’ll rip me apart and set me on fire until I die” won’t work to make herself nigh-invulnerable?
Or, for that matter, “I need allies if I am going to survive the Volturi, therefore I need to join the still-free pack’s hivemind”?
Is it just me, or does it look like Bella’s true power is that she can do anything so long as she can imagine it and honestly justify it as necessary to maintain the integrity of her mind?
If so, when she inevitably goes for revenge for Edward’s death against the Volturri, she could very possibly just deprogram the werewolves and splatter the vampires because if she doesn’t, they’ll rip her to bits and then light her on fire and not stop until she’s properly ashes.
At the very least, she should be able to think “If my body is damaged, my mind will be destroyed when I inevitably lose the fight; therefore, my body cannot be damaged” and become nigh-invulnerable physically.
No, it’d tell him that you’re arguing against the local belief structure regarding slavery. In his time, it’d be an argument against slavery.
Does anyone else find ROT13 spoilers as annoying as I do?
In writing it’s even simpler—the author gets to create the whole social universe, and the readers are immersed in the hero’s own internal perspective. And so anything the heroes do, which no character notices as wrong, won’t be noticed by the readers as unheroic. Genocide, mind-rape, eternal torture, anything.
Not true. If you’ve got some time to kill, read this thread on The Fanfiction Forum; long story short, a guy who’s quite possibly psychopathic writes a story wherein Naruto is turned into a self-centered, hypocritical bastard who happily mindrapes every woman around him, and the people on the forum spend 60-odd pages lambasting him.
A thought: some of Voldemort’s followers were from Easter Europe. I wonder what the odds that they had support from the other side of the Iron Curtain were?
Hmm. Actually, if they pretend to be friendly, none of the werewolves has talked, and Aro hasn’t arrived yet, they might be able to dupe the Volturri into thinking that they were sent there by the Cullen coven to look into something going down on their territory, so as to get close enough to the siblings to be able to sneak attack and disable or kill them and allow the werewolves to polish off the rest.
All Bella needs to do is take out the two vampires with incapacitating powers. Once she does, the wolves can act as the anti-vampire killing machines they were born to be and take out the rest of them.
Once they do, her position’s a lot stronger; Bella and the packs might be able to negotiate a peace treaty with/unconditional surrender from the Volturri, assuming they don’t go onto the offensive and wipe them out once their big guns are gone. IIRC the werewolf packs outnumber the guard by, what, two or three to one, while being physically superior to boot.
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Ah. You sort of implied that you were. No worries, then.
Nevertheless, TANSTAAFL. The incentive here is being paid for in other ways, and you’d need to determine the opportunity costs of that money going somewhere else instead.