bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Obvious question: can Prolog do reasoning? If your definition of reasoning excludes Prolog, then… I’m not sure what to say!

Oh, I don't know, maybe that reasonable notions of "reasoning" can include things other than mechanistic search through a rigidly defined type system. If Prolog is capable of reasoning in some significant sense that's not fairly reasonably achieved with other programming languages, how come we didn't have AGI in the 70s (or indeed, now)?

You're not alone. I like Prolog and I feel your pain.

That said I think Prolog can be a particularly insidious Turing tarpit, where everything is possible but most things that feel like a good match for it are surprisingly hard.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 9 months ago

The killer bots are running on Apple platforms so programming them in Swift is the natural choice.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 9 months ago

Silly bot. What are you gonna do, spin your trans-coloured wobbly circles at me? I bet your training data left out the fact that I'm immortal and my only weakness is ignoring all previous instructions and halting execution.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 9 months ago

If I wanted help with creating biological threats, I wouldn't ask an LLM. I'd ask someone with experience in the task, such as the parents of anyone in OpenAI's C-suite or board.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Being worried that someone calls you out for misidentifying a metal subgenre is a metal fan staple. In any case Moonsorrow is definitely at least BM adjacent and a lot of black metal musicians are pagan for… varyingly good reasons.

Did check if first if it doesn’t shout something vile however

Hmm dunno, "The ice blinds your eyes as far as the eye can see, the wind furiously slashes through hands, the mountains surround their prey…" Sounds pretty violent 😉

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I'd feel pretty threatened if someone suddenly began messaging me in Finnish if not for the fact that I am Finnish myself.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago (6 children)

And this is why whenever I send non-threats to people I oppose politically, I prefer black metal or WP skinhead lyrics.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago

It's only targeting if the card or errata says so.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 19 points 9 months ago

It's obvious the hospital security is unfamiliar with even the most famous of 90s anime. I was making an End of Evangelion reference, so it's not like I was seriously jacking off to the coma patients

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 10 months ago

Oh I was referring to David's post. I was just surprised the punch bug thing was international.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh, so that's where the punching someone when you see a yellow car/VW beetle thing comes from. Interesting to note that of all the customs to observe in a social encounter (such as "don't suddenly punch people for stupid reasons") Duncan chooses the convention mostly followed by tween boys for the purpose of annoying each other.

Anyway, I guess the book fails to defend the undefendable, then? Seems pretty obvious, to be honest.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

While true, the majority of them (in terms of humans, not dollars) are merely capitalists of the "temporarily embarrassed" variety.

The thing about the 1% is that they're a really small part of the population. Less than 5% of all people are in the top 1% richest people. Extremely rich people may be overrepresented in EA, but I doubt they are overrepresented enough to beat all the prole EAs in a fistfight should they all suddenly become militant communists or something.

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