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Simon Paynton wrote:
An AI can never be human-centred, because it’s Artificial.

But it doesn’t follow from that that it can’t be intelligent or conscious in a way it that serves its interests rather than ours.

The question of whether morality must originate from an absolute authority, particularly a supernatural one, is central to a lot of philosophical debate between theists and secularists. Many religious apologists argue that without a divine authority, there can be no objective basis for morality, meaning there’s no ultimate “right” or “wron…[Read more]

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.

Sometimes I read…[Read more]

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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I don’t care about auto tune. At least it’s a human voice. I’m interested in music because of the people involved, their stories and I how can hear those stories in the music. When Robert Johnson sold his soul at the crossroads to play guitar. The day the music died in a plane crash and good ole boys were drinking whisk and rye. When the Beatles…[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.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
My Question to ScholarGPT: Can you write a short essay on the evolution of secular morals and ethics since 1600 to the present day and how it has improved upon the static rules of theistic faith. It’s Answer, 8 seconds later….. The evolution of secular morals and ethics from the 1600s to the present day is a com…

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Spotify is full of AI generated music and fake “artists” already. They had to limit the number of songs that get uploaded per day per account. For years now many people in the music business are now called “recording artists” because they can’t even call themselves musicians. They couldn’t play “Mary Had a Little Lamb” to save their lives. But as…[Read more]

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]

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]

AI doesn’t know what to ask.

Exactly. It is not ‘conscious”.

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.

LOL, good one Unseen. Using human shields against HAMAS, LOL. This is so fucking stupid, as if HAMAS would give a damn who they kill. CNN forgot that HAMAS is in the martyr business. It’s like the MAGA/Trump/Nazi playbook. Just accuse your enemies of exactly what you are doing.

Well, Gaza is a pile of rubble. How is that ‘river to the sea’…[Read more]

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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