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Re:The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America' on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:34PM (#38285590)
Why on Earth are you pretending to be something other than an insolent "ChatGPT"-style bot?

I mean you are. That's literally true, as true as the story on the 4chan thread. I'm calling you out.

Good comment, I like arguments backed by stats! I do recognise the validity of this line of thought.

Food for thought for you, though: is solving this problem (a "miracle") not quite similar to the problem of making a safe FAI, possibly with hard takeoff?

That is to say, shouldn't we be concerned that we can't (at least gesture towards) solving this problem of most people having crappy governments, when we are also supposed to be solving the problem of AI alignment? I feel as though these two problems are intimately related beyond just the issue of bad governance interfering with or actively hindering safe AI research.

Why do so many technophiles dislike the idea of world government?

I rarely see the concept of "world government", or governance, or a world court or any such thing, spoken of positively by anyone. That includes technophiles and futurists who are fully cognizant of and believe in the concept of a technological singularity that needs to be controlled, "aligned", made safe etc.Solutions to AI safety usually focus on how the AI should be coded, and it seems to me...

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Re:9/11 was (possibly) done by David Bowie on Sunday October 01, 2023 @01:25PM (#37728225)
Just a bit of Science Fiction, but I found it thought-provoking
Out of all the quines I've seen, that's my favourite.

https://github.com/m-ender/retina/blob/master/Examples/quine...

So elegant.

I would have liked to have seen more examples of what different languages shepherd you to do.

Python, in my experience, shepherds you to import a lot of modules rather than writing your own. There's so many helpful ones available and that's kind of a reality shock if you switch to some other languages.