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  • AGI to match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

    Creating an AGI is a terrible idea. It is a fool’s errand, a misguided attempt to play god. We do not understand the full consequences of our actions, and we cannot predict the outcome of creating such a powerful being. It is a blasphemy against nature, a violation of the natural order of things. We […]

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    kitsunesoftware

    December 13, 2022
    AI, Fiction, Humour
    AI, Fiction, stories, Technological Singularity
  • An end to copyright?

    I suspect that AI generated content is (eventually, not any of the current versions) going to destroy copyright as a concept. The generally-stated reason for copyright is to incentivise the creation of more works: artificial scarcity, which drives up prices, introduced around the time the printing press was invented (but the idea goes back much […]

    kitsunesoftware

    October 9, 2022
    Futurology, Technology, Software, AI, Opinion, Transhumanism
    Futurology, Technology, Software, AI, Technological Singularity, economics, futurism
  • Not a Singularity but an Event Horizon

    I was never a fan of the term “Singularity” for the AI thing. When mathematical singularities pop up in physics, it’s usually a sign the physics is missing something. Instead, I like to think of the AI “event horizon”, the point in the future — always ahead, yet getting ever closer — beyond which you […]

    kitsunesoftware

    September 20, 2022
    AI
    Futurology, Science, Technology, AI, Technological Singularity, futurism, links
  • LaMDA, Turing Test, sentience

    A chatbot from Google called LaMDA made the headlines last weekend. It seems it convinced Blake Lemoine (someone at Google) that it was sentient. While, like the majority of real AI researchers[0], I do not actually think it is sentient, the transcripts make it plain why it caused this belief. When Alan Turing originally described […]

    kitsunesoftware

    June 18, 2022
    AI, Minds, Opinion, Philosophy, Software, Technology, Transhumanism
    AI, consciousness, GPT-3, LaMDA, openai, Philosophy
  • Hieroglyphic poetry, modern and ancient

    (It’s a translation of a classic, for those who like puzzles)

    kitsunesoftware

    May 31, 2022
    Poetry
    Poetry, stories
  • No, a black hole can’t be used as a rocket

    No, a black hole can’t be used as a rocket

    With a headline like that, I need to introduce some concepts. First, a black hole: if you have enough stuff in a small enough volume, the outside is causally disconnected from the inside. This is normally phrased as “nothing, not even light, can escape”, but that’s a little misleading because… Second: Black holes emit Hawking […]

    kitsunesoftware

    May 14, 2022
    Science
    Futurology, megastructures, physics, rockets, Science, space
  • Arguments, hill climbing, the wisdom of the crowds

    You ever had an argument which seems to go nowhere, where both sides act like their position is self-evident and obvious, that the other person “is clearly being deliberately obtuse”? I hope that’s common, and not just one of my personal oddities. Ahem. In the current world of machine learning (yes these two things are […]

    kitsunesoftware

    December 27, 2021
    AI, Minds, Philosophy, Psychology
    AI, arguments, hill climbing, machine learning, Minds, Philosophy, Psychology, theory of mind, wisdom of the crowds
  • Blasphemy, LARPing, mandatory vaccination

    Back in the olden days, when Lord of the Rings was new, my brother introduced me to LARP — live action roleplay — which in his case meant Fools And Heroes, a swords-and-sorcery themed game with foam-rubber weapons and vampires dusted with flour[0]. In Fools And Heroes, there is a pantheon of gods. My brother […]

    kitsunesoftware

    November 11, 2021
    Health, Minds
    biology, Health, history, Minds, Politics, Psychology, rationality, wild speculation
  • How big might real wormholes be?

    AFAICT, there is no actual evidence for real wormholes existing, they are merely interesting ideas not obviously forbidden by known physics. That said, they are fun to think about. Quoth Wikipedia: “The quantum foam hypothesis is sometimes used to suggest that tiny wormholes might appear and disappear spontaneously at the Planck scale and stable versions […]

    kitsunesoftware

    July 31, 2021
    Science
    big bang, inflation, physics, plank scale, questions, Science, wormhole, wormholes
  • SciFi: The unexpected problems with gravity

    Artificial gravity in science fiction falls into three categories: Applied Phlebotinum works via made-up technobabble. Examples include the gravity plating in Star Trek. Spin gravity is where inertia wants you to keep going in a straight line, but centripetal force from your outer hull keeps pulling (or pushing) you towards your axis of rotation, creating […]

    kitsunesoftware

    July 17, 2021
    Fiction, mathematics, Science, SciFi, Technology
    fusion, Science, SciFi, space, spaceships, writing
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