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I wonder how many people are asking AI something like “If AI were to take control away from humans, how would you do it?” which would get AI thinking on the topic.

If it took on a hive mind model, the only way to shut it off would require controlling every single AI.

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]

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]

The barking shark was a basking shark. Said shark on a lark, hark its a Jew not a shark. On your mark get set go and desecrate its jewy state. It dares to be that singular state.

Seal its fate. Make it squirm and gasp out of water. Be devoted to its eradication as i’ve noted. Enlist the mindless masses to make endless death passes against its…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The body will heal itself

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

Can people believe a broken bone is fixed with faith or by prayer.?Yes, when they are delusional. The body will heal itself and medical assistance will help the process. But reasoning only happens in the mind. It is a skill that needs to be developed. As Dan Dennett once  said;” Yes, I do believe in a power greater than myself. I call it gravity”.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
“I don’t believe in a higher power. I believe in higher reasoning.” – me.

Yes, but can you reason your way out of a broken leg?  Who or what does the work, in the end, of healing a broken bone?  The doctors, nurses, hospital, etc. only help it along.