Random Thought Thread

Have you ever thought about how many people, for example, are actually capable of thinking?
AI, on average, is not necessarily different from a solid number of people.
And when AI makes mistakes, it often does so with roughly the same probability as even a reasonably qualified (but not highly qualified) person in their field.
If you think about it from this angle, it actually becomes a bit simpler.



Like, thoughts, opinions, and so on are often just deterministic, rather than a person actually thinking about something and producing their own thought or opinion.
 
Moorik said:
Have you ever thought about how many people, for example, are actually capable of thinking?
AI, on average, is not necessarily different from a solid number of people.
And when AI makes mistakes, it often does so with roughly the same probability as even a reasonably qualified (but not highly qualified) person in their field.
If you think about it from this angle, it actually becomes a bit simpler.



Like, thoughts, opinions, and so on are often just deterministic, rather than a person actually thinking about something and producing their own thought or opinion.
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I did think about this very thing as I was posting.
 
Moorik said:
Basically, if our models of understanding/reality are wrong in some fundamental way, then both AI and quantum computers will end up giving incorrect results.
But honestly…
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I'm old enough that I will see some of the early benefits, but little of the real dangers. Unless it all goes pear-shaped at warp speed.
 
SharpBits said:
I'm old enough that I will see some of the early benefits, but little of the real dangers. Unless it all goes pear-shaped at warp speed.
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Damn, people who are 40–60 years old — I’m honestly jealous of you.
You got to live through the coolest periods: the birth and early golden age of technology.
Cars becoming normal, the internet appearing, that whole special vibe of the time. (Before everything got ruined.)

I’m 25 and I realize that to live at the same standard of living those 40–60-year-olds had — even adjusted for inflation and everything else — I would need something like 5× more resources.

I don’t envy the generations coming after me at all.
What if my generation ends up being the last one that still eats meat instead of bugs?
 
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Moorik said:
Damn, people who are 40–60 years old — I’m honestly jealous of you.
You got to live through the coolest periods: the birth and early golden age of technology.
Cars becoming normal, the internet appearing, that whole special vibe of the time. (Before everything got ruined.)

I’m 25 and I realize that to live at the same standard of living those 40–60-year-olds had — even adjusted for inflation and everything else — I would need something like 5× more resources.

I don’t envy the generations coming after me at all.
What if my generation ends up being the last one that still eats meat instead of bugs?
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As a Gen X with a fat silver spoon up my butt, and two young adult children, I feel this to the center of my bone marrow
 
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