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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by fastbeef on Thursday November 14, 2019 @03:08AM (#21533682)
> Imagine The Sims, with a lot more internal smarts and real physics, as a base for work.

Sounds like the start of a truly horrifying Black Mirror episode

Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by adrianN on Thursday November 14, 2019 @03:36AM (#21533812)
Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by strbean on Thursday November 14, 2019 @05:50PM (#21540375)
> YOU DO NOT THINK IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL ABOUT SUPERINTELLIGENCES CONSIDERING WHETHER OR NOT TO BLACKMAIL YOU. THAT IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE THING WHICH GIVES THEM A MOTIVE TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON THE BLACKMAIL.
Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by bgilroy26 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:30AM (#21534080)
The internet is so great
Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by haffi112 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @03:56AM (#21533901)
> Sounds like the start of a truly horrifying Black Mirror episode

That episode already exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_the_DJ

Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by DonHopkins on Thursday November 14, 2019 @06:31AM (#21534592)
Or a Philip K Dick novel that's so weird and prescient, nobody's been able to figure out how to make a movie from it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_E...

http://mxmossman.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-three-stigmata-of-...

>The Perky Pat Layouts itself is an interesting concept. Here's Dick, in the early 60's, coming up with the idea for virtual worlds. I mean, Second Life and other virtual worlds are just a mapping of the Perky Pat Layouts onto cyberspace. Today Facebook acts like the PP Layouts, taking people's minds off toil and work and letting them engage others in a shared virtual hallucination -- you're not actually physically with your friends, and they might not even be your friends.

>Dick’s description of the Can-D experience is essentially a description of virtual sex:

>“Her husband -- or his wife or both of them or everyone in the entire hovel -- could show up while he and Fran were in the state of translation. And their two bodies would be seated at proper distance one from the other; no wrong-doing could be observed, however prurient the observers were. Legally this had been ruled on: no co-habitation could be proved, and legal experts among the ruling UN authorities on Mars and the other colonies had tried -- and failed. While translated one could commit incest, murder, anything, and it remained from a juridicial standpoint a mere fantasy, an impotent wish only.”

>Another character says “when we chew Can-D and leave our bodies we die. And by dying we lose the weight of -- ... Sin.”