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• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  I did an experiment with bingGPT, trying to see what it would come up with. I started off by asking it to produce 10 facts about a different writer - all of which, annoyingly, were correct and drawn from the...
• Commented on New guest blogger: qntm
  qntm's Lena offers one exploration of this fairly horrifying concept. IMO, in both cases you are creating something that is recognizably human and recognizably sentient for the sole purpose of performing a task; as Charlie pointed out years ago that's...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Twitter has corporate offices and therefore presences in France, Germany, Ireland (this is its official european HQ), the Netherlands and Spain. They are quite reachable for european jurisdiction; the implied threat here is that either they get in line or...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  hmm yes global universal information access Dwarf Fortress is getting a graphical overhaul real soon now in 2020 (announced in 2019) Dead Lies Dreaming is set in 2016....
• Commented on Dude, you broke the future!
  The thing is, if christianity is entirely irrelevant to the question of whether or not self-improving AI is possible and, if it is, what impact its introduction would have on the world, why are there so many parallels between it...
• Commented on Dude, you broke the future!
  The dominant belief system of a sizable portion of the world's population is hardly irrelevant. Examining ideas "on their own right" without considering their historical and philosophical underpinnings is a really terrible idea....
• Commented on Dude, you broke the future!
  "Use search and replace on a post I disagree with" is not the effective rhetorical strategy you think it is....
• Commented on Dude, you broke the future!
  Ideas always have lineages, and those lineages have baggage associated with them. The Singularity idea is christian eschatology stripped of its mystical elements. That by itself does not tell us anything about the validity of the idea itself, but it...
• Commented on Empire Games sneak peek
  I have a question: Given that you're writing these not for the people who actually comment on these threads but rather for some nebulous peanut gallery which presumably understands everything you say, why are you posting these messages here? I...
• Commented on A taste of nightmares to come
  Amazon.de just informed me that they intend to ship the book (specifically the Orbit edition) to me tomorrow. I thought the street date was still a week away?...
• Commented on But it's not April 1st yet!
  I think your opinions are very interesting and wish to subscribe to your newsletter....
• Commented on But it's not April 1st yet!
  ....So the fate of humanity is decided by the behaviour of a couple dozen people on a random blog on the internet?...