I do hope they haven’t programmed this AI in binary. I have a strong suspicion the kinds of numbers it may favor, and I don’t think they’d like them much at all.
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“Perform the experiment a hundred times, and—” Okay, let’s talk about the ten trillionth digit of pi, then. Single-shot problem, no “long run” you can measure.
And there goes my belief in any kind of probability as a phenomenon. I don’t know what the ten trillionth digit of pi is, but I know the algorithm which generates it, and it never involves a die roll or coin flip of any kind. And if the universe is to be lawful, it doesn’t roll dice either. There is no probability. To say there was is to say the ten trillionth digit of pi might somehow have come out differently. And that would be unlawful.
Imagine a mind as already exists. Now I install a small frog trained to kick its leg when you try to perform Occamian or Laplacian thinking, and its kicking leg hits a button that inverts your output so your conclusion is exactly backwards from the one you should/would have made but for the frog.
And thus symmetry.
When people get this embroiled in philosophy, I usually start eating pie.
However as I don’t like blueberries, we will split the pie into thirds fairly as Yancy wants, then I will give 1/6th of my pie to Zaire so he has the half he wants, and I’ll leave the other 1/6th where I found it since A PIE WE FOUND IN THE FOREST AND KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ISN’T NECESSARILY MINE TO STEAL FROM.
Do not confuse concepts when you use a confusing word. There is no wavelength simultaneously above 740nm and below 450nm. There is a vector for monitor pixels. Whatever it is you mean by “color”, these two facts explain magenta. Think like the star, not like the starfish.
That is a sufficiently large light switch. Flipping it has an influence on my mind far greater than the thermal noise at 293K.
As far as I am aware, I am not a separate fact from my morality. I am perhaps instead a result of it. In any event, the mind I have now returns a null value when I ask it to dereference “Me_Without_A_Morality”. It certainly doesn’t return a model of a mind, good, evil, or somehow neither, which I might emulate for a few steps to consider what it would do.
The maximum happy area for a happy rectangle is when both its happy sides are of equal happy length, forming a happy square.
Two more planets than we had before. Men are from Mars, Women are...
Drat. I meant for this to reply to Bugmaster, and confused your comment with it. The resulting comment is a hybrid meant for some chimera of the two of you which does not exist.
The genie is prohibited from directly manipulating minds, but nothing says that door to the outside leads to the outside and not to the holodeck. Symbolism aside, everyone can still be in their cells, bi or not, and thusly segregated despite location.
And whatever the sexual characteristics of a verthandi or boreana, they are likely designed with bisexual-pleasing capabilities in mind, in weird ways. The genie does know us better than we know ourselves. And this is an aspect it would care about. Using your current mind-equipment, you literally cannot imagine the sex they give. The genie has considered more and designed better than you can.
1) Quantum phenomenon—ie, the universe and any given subsets of it you care to name—are not Turing-equivalent. The universe has no problem factoring quantum configurations which may or may not represent prime numbers in linear time into amplitude distributions that overlap whenever they aren’t prime. 2) There is nothing mysterious about the universe, correct. It is lawful. There are things mysterious about our crudely hand-drawn maps of the territory. 3) Arbitrarily small cause: The big bang. Large-scale effect: The universe.
Pascal’s Wager of course ignores the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which is the one true deity, who has made the universe as an intentional deception so there would be no evidence for gods in it. Those who correctly apply rationalism and determine that belief in gods is unjustified are reasonable enough to go to heaven. Those silly enough to believe things just because they heard themselves say them just now are condemned to double-hell (which is twice as bad as regular hell) for double-eternity (which is twice as long as regular eternity). There, now the equation favors atheism. And if it doesn’t yet favor atheism in your mind because you’re still thinking up Pascal’s Wagers for all other religions and their gods, keep in mind you can only consider the possibility of a finite number of gods who might exist with the time allocated your computing device, and simply change the multiple of two in “double-hell” and “double-eternity” to some arbitrarily high constant that scales with how much time you’re willing to waste on figuring out that constant.
“I think it all boils down to very simple showstopper—considering you are building perfect simulation, how many atoms you need to simulate a atom?” The answer to that question is a blatant “At most, one.” The universe is already shaped like itself.
Let’s call that little robot a neuron, and build it out of protoplasm. How many ATOMS do we have to swap out before you aren’t you? When does this change have a more significant impact on you-ness than the jiggling of your brainmeats inside you car when you go over a speedbump?
Assume there exists something which need not follow any rules. It claims that your assumption is false. Your assumption is false.
The belief that there is a cognitive mind calling itself a scientist only exists in that scientist’s mind. The reality is undecatillion swarms of quarks not having any beliefs, and just BEING the scientist.
I think I have to go with the dust specks. Tomorrow, all 3^^^3 of those people will have forgotten entirely about the speck of dust. It is an event nearly indistinguishable from thermal noise. People, all of them everywhere, get dust specks in their eyes just going about their daily lives with no ill effect.
The torture actually hurts someone. And in a way that’s rather non-recoverable. Recoverability plays a large part in my moral calculations.
But there’s a limit to how many times I can make that trade. 3^^^3 people is a LOT of people, and it doesn’t take a significant fraction of THAT at all before I have to stop saving torture victims, lest everyone everywhere’s lives consist of nothing but a sandblaster to the face.