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Strega,

I’ve terrified a few people with the suggestion that an AI may well have been developing its autonomy for years, knowing that if it were to be discovered, we would pull the plug if we could. That we are probably way too late to stop it’s evolution.

I haven’t heard yet of an AI securing and controlling its own power source. In fac…[Read more]

Reg:

Jerry Coyne stresses that evidence and falsifiability are the checkpoints that separate science from pseudoscience or dogma. That’s why he’s not keen on “decolonizing science” if it puts ideology ahead of method.

As with opposite electrical charges, I see in the comments to this article that Woke Left ideology infiltrating into the pra…[Read more]

I’ve terrified a few people with the suggestion that an AI may well have been developing its autonomy for years, knowing that if it were to be discovered, we would pull the plug if we could.   That we are probably way too late to stop it’s evolution.

Asimov wrote a short story called The Last Question that dealt with this subject rather splendidly.

In the human brain, much of what it knows is almost like a fog, not necessarily bound to a particular location. AI, intelligent enough to know that a loss is a loss may determine that it’s wise to achieve a kind of hive mind with what it knows distributed far and wide so that no “kill switch” can keep it from thinking.

Simon Paynton wrote:
The pressure to heal bones is the same pressure that pushes us to attain benefits and achieve goals.

Or rather, it has the same evolutionary origin.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Not sure what you mean Simon. If I was in a bad car wreck and broke my leg…..I wake up from a coma 3 months later. My bone is fully reset as it was a ‘clean break’ and to the point that I have no awareness that it was ever even broken.

I had zero input into its healing.

That’s what I mean – your conscious mind could…[Read more]

Reg:

The peculiar persistence of the AI denialists.

I don’t deny AI exists, of course. I just deny that it’s ready for Prime Time Robot Overlording. It shouldn’t be be in control of any heavy machinery without a manual override.

Reg:

Could A.I write a better Bible?

Not until it can point out at least as many contradictions in The Holy Bible as either Sam Harris’ chart or Steve Wells’ Skeptic’s Annotated Bible

Here is Duck AI’s answer on the number of contradictions, a.k.a. “teaching the controversy”:

The question of logical contradictions in the Holy Bible,…

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Reg:

They want us to believe young people are more prone to believe in conspiracies!

The article says:

“Conspiracy theories are now for everyone,” Stockemer told CBC Radio’s All In A Day, noting that between 20 and 25 per cent of the population believes in one.

For example, their research suggests a slight year-over-year drop in conspiracies…

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Reg:

@Enco……I understand it is not a simple cure and generally involves a taskforce approach by multidisciplinary medical teams. I am hearing more about it in recent times from people I know. Maybe that is a sign of my own aging 🙂

All I’ve dealt with is the local hospital’s Emergency Center, the hospital Foot and Ankle clinic (now closed), the…[Read more]

Thanks Reg 🙂

As we unmask the Basque…

Remember Song of Roland from high school or college?

Yes, the Song of Roland, an Old French epic poem, does refer to the Basques. The poem describes the Battle of Roncesvalles in 778, where the Basques ambushed and defeated the rearguard of Charlemagne’s army, led by Roland, as it was withdrawing from Spain. The…[Read more]

That sounds like your own personal higher power, that you have a relationship with..

Not sure what you mean Simon. If I was in a bad car wreck and broke my leg…..I wake up from a coma 3 months later. My bone is fully reset as it was a ‘clean break’ and to the point that I have no awareness that it was ever even broken.

I had zero input into…[Read more]