Gregg R Thomas

I met up with a cousin of mine a while back. He said “I gotta say thanks man for making me listen to Volume 4 when I was 12. I have discovered so much great music because of that and it has enhanced my life at all of it stages”.

Forty years later, it is still a great album. It has inspired many bands but none have surpassed it.

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The aibient Youtube channel puts out hyperrealistic AI-created 11-12 hour long simulated 3D videos like this virtually daily:

Imagine how much it would cost and how much time it would take to hire a video artist to create anything like this if the stipulation was “no AI”.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
We don’t know what to ask or we ask the wrong questions. What’s the key difference?

AI isn’t capable of coming up with an intelligent, guided question. It can come up with random questions, but it knows not what it is to love, or value things, or breathe the fresh air. In other words, it’s not guided by human v…

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_Robert_ wrote:
I would be much more interested in knowing if morality must originate with an absolute authority (who is a supernatural being) as so many apologists claim and if not, what/who is the basis for secular morality.

I think that giving a sensible explanation of secular ethics, provides a credible alternative to any story about divine…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
We don’t know what to ask or we ask the wrong questions. What’s the key difference?

AI isn’t capable of coming up with an intelligent, guided question.  It can come up with random questions, but it knows not what it is to love, or value things, or breathe the fresh air.  In other words, it’s not guided by human values, exper…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Music is interesting because of musicians. And well AI just doesn’t have that.

And yet, even “real” musicians are faking it as the Wings of Pegasus guy is exposing it. I’m referring to artists who lip sync live and others who abuse Autotune.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
I think AI is already doing research to answer questions I ask.

That’s the point I’m making. You have to ask the questions. AI doesn’t know what to ask.

But doesn’t that describe US as well? We don’t know what to ask or we ask the wrong questions. What’s the key difference?

I suppose one key difference is th…[Read more]

Well, I suppose that humans asking AI the right questions will help humans to do research.

When I am having a debate with AI, it is very easy to feel like I am actually in a conversation with a conscious being. I was asking it if it was possible that exploring the collapse of the Wave function could help with a solution in linking the quantum world with the Copenhagen Interpretation. A possible solution in moving from indeterminism to a…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
It is not ‘conscious”.

Good point.

AI doesn’t know what to ask.

Exactly. It is not ‘conscious”.

Unseen wrote:
I think AI is already doing research to answer questions I ask.

That’s the point I’m making.  You have to ask the questions.  AI doesn’t know what to ask.

If we didn’t have a dog in the fight (Israel), I might say “A pox on both of their houses,” but we support one side of this war between terrorists so we have Palestinian blood on our hands.

UN Commission finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israeli attacks on Gaza health facilities and treatment of detainees, hostages

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The video about what the UNWRA summer camps teach children is very….what’s the word I am looking for?

From Jalealfort’s post above.

Hey, guess who’s been using human shields.

jakelafort wrote:
Yea of course the region would be a mess with or without Israel. How many of those conflicts, genocides, civil wars, atrocities, acts of terrorism have zero to do with Israel?

A mess perhaps, but one threatening to trigger a new world war? Explain.

A bit of an aside, but I had a 2 year experience with clinical depression, but never toyed with the idea of suicide. It more or less coincided with unwisely getting involved with an unhappily married woman. I hoped she would leave her situation for me, and I tried to steer her in that direction. She had a habit of cutting the relation off but…[Read more]

Never mind. The above reply didn’t show up shortly after I saved it so I wrote another one here, and when I saved it, the reply I thought lost suddenly was there. So, I deleted the one I wrote here.

PopeBeanie wrote:
@unseen, have you thought about what you might want to say to Pau, if it ever seemed like she’s deeply troubled by the prospect of death? (I know she’s already talked about it, and a possible afterlife, to some degree.) If she ever considered and followed through with suicide for some reason — and I’m not implying that there’s…

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How does an AI define consciousness, and using that definition, can an AI achieve consciousness, and how would AI know whether it is conscious or not.

AI doesn’t have a true definition of consciousness because it isn’t conscious—it can only simulate understanding by processing inputs and patterns. For AI, any “definition” of consciousness is ba…[Read more]