Richard Robertson

While people have spoken about fearing how AI might take over because AI might learn to act per its own, non-human “motives”, I’ve said for years that the most imminent threat of AI will come from how its specific owners and builders will decide what to do with their AI. This depressing ass video is the first support I’ve seen for that notion, in…[Read more]

I’m not confident that a lot of people would pick up on the visceral to moral disgust connection, but mea culpa for bringing up exaptation. We should still hope that others can get it. I do get your point:

Simon Paynton wrote:
I just can’t quite figure out why a breach of honest trust is so morally disgusting, and how it links to physical disgust.

You’ve obviously done more research than me on this, but some emotions like the feeling of betrayal seem to me to be linked to higher cognitive processes, including theory of mind. Feeling betrayed h…[Read more]

I have some small ideas here.

1) out-group members and their strange and unnatural behaviour;

“1) out-group members and their strange racial appearance and unnatural behaviour;”

“we ≠ me” means “I do not identify with this “we” or group”; “you ≠ me” represents a situation of unfairness

The ≠ symbol both in ‘we ≠ me’  and ‘you ≠ me’ makes sense,…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
My early days as an engineer was focused on writing embedded assembly code for 8 and 16 bit processors.

My first job out of the Air Force was at TRW, which I left pretty quickly. I tested radar phase delay boards for Army tank applications while most of the testing department took hours at a time off in the break room, and my boss…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
We always figured half that company was designing viruses.

I think way back then, that may have been part of our secret eastern bloc division. 🙂

I have to say, those were awesome days, working in the project management software division (Time Line, specifically). I thought it would be really boring, but I fell in love with it,…[Read more]

I’m comfortable being alone with my own thoughts, to a fault. I don’t lift a finger until I’ve over-planned and over-big pictured it, and then my day is an unfocused mess of jabbing at this or that thing I’ve planned and am still planning, with unexpected diversions taking over to boot, although (imo fortunately) few of those diversions are for…[Read more]

Bloody hell, Unseen. I’m so glad you got through this. A quart of orange juice might help with the constipation.  Feel better, mate xx

I’m undecided, because I see 1) both sides of the discussion overgeneralizing to the point of miscommunication (although the conservative/religionist is obviously more stubborn about it); 2) it depends on the history of the relationship, e.g. what if they’re (say) brothers, or have other reasons to maintain a relationship?

Still, generally…[Read more]