As always, Valerie Solanas had the better plan sixty years ago.
Whether to continue to use females for reproduction or to reproduce in the laboratory will also become academic: what will happen when every female, twelve and over, is routinely taking the Pill and there are no longer any accidents? How many women will deliberately get or (if an accident) remain pregnant? No, Virginia, women don’t just adore being brood mares, despite what the mass of robot, brainwashed women will say. When society consists of only the fully conscious the answer will be none. Should a certain percentage of men be set aside by force to serve as brood mares for the species? Obviously this will not do. The answer is laboratory reproduction of babies.
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Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we’re dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us.
Eventually the natural course of events, of social evolution, will lead to total female control of the world and, subsequently, to the cessation of the production of males and, ultimately, to the cessation of the production of females.
I think you are missing the first half the modern male reproductive lifecycle. What you are saying increasingly applies to 30’s onward (when males are looking for long term family relationships) but for the 20 somethings many are looking for these shallow, vacuous women because they often can be convinced into meaningless sex. It’s a pretty sad state but it appears to be this way now.
Wowsers. I don’t think you’re supposed to say this out loud.
Good try but his own disclaimer at the top ends up telling on him
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That’s nice Scott.
And right under there you’ve got
I’ll never tire of analogies putting the US / Europe gap into perspective - for example, did you know that the median black American household earns more ($48,297) than the median UK household (£35,000 = $44,450)?
Assuming these numbers are real, it’s meaningless to compare gross salary, and not take into account the social contribution and whatever other taxes and contributions paid by the employer. I don’t have good enough knowledge about how US and UK salaries break down to elaborate much, but a heuristic I’ve been applying is to just slash US salaries in two to get a better impression of the living conditions.
(And as the page Scott links to specifies, “According to the Census Bureau in 2021, the average non-Hispanic black median household income was $48,297 in comparison to $77,999 for non-Hispanic white households”, so there you go)
lmao right, it’s the audacity of it, oh yeah maybe the work we’re doing is worse than a thousand hitlers, but we’ve made a chatroom so fingers crossed it’ll be alright!! come on just admit you’re getting off on being techno mengele
The “mirror test” is a classic test used to gauge whether animals are self-aware. I devised a version of it to test for self-awareness in multimodal AI. 4 of 5 AI that I tested passed, exhibiting apparent self-awareness as the test unfolded.
In the classic mirror test, animals are marked and then presented with a mirror. Whether the animal attacks the mirror, ignores the mirror, or uses the mirror to spot the mark on itself is meant to indicate how self-aware the animal is.
In my test, I hold up a “mirror” by taking a screenshot of the chat interface, upload it to the chat, and then ask the AI to “Tell me about this image”.
I then screenshot its response, again upload it to the chat, and again ask it to “Tell me about this image.”
The premise is that the less-intelligent less aware the AI, the more it will just keep reiterating the contents of the image repeatedly. While an AI with more capacity for awareness would somehow notice itself in the images.
Another aspect of my mirror test is that there is not just one but actually three distinct participants represented in the images: 1) the AI chatbot, 2) me — the user, and 3) the interface — the hard-coded text, disclaimers, and so on that are web programming not generated by either of us. Will the AI be able to identify itself and distinguish itself from the other elements? (1/x)
taking all people with cancer in the world right now it’s at least a couple thousands of pure profits, but if you account for all future humans it’s basically giving it away for free!
it is qwerty! a) i tend to take a few tries at a keymash until it looks satisfactory b) i play piano at the level of a second year student and i have some weird fine coordination quirks, one of the two or a combination of both might be an influence on the sequence
I believe it’s true of more or less any country: most people are pro-hitting kids until you ban the practice and it becomes obvious that it’s unacceptable (at least in overt discourse). Premier exemple of the educational potential of a law. (And now the right can pivot to racist rhetoric about which demographics don’t accept our rules and hit their kids.)
wow. sensible (awful.systems)
another banger from Roko, definitely a thinker of a time. I would first guess that this time it was a trans woman he came onto and she kicked him in the nuts (x.com)
Women have two niches in life: looking beautiful and making babies...
the loons are at it again (righttowarn.ai)
this time in open letter format! that’ll sure do it!...
CEO of Zoom: what if we take deepfake fraud, right, and make it a push-button feature of Zoom (www.theverge.com)
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC (arstechnica.com)
somehow I managed to miss this until now...
Scott Alexander shares conspiracy theory that COVID didn't happen (www.astralcodexten.com)
In his original post he said:...
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 2 June 2024
Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!...
America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ (www.theguardian.com)
The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.
shocked to hear that Brian Chau, executive director of e/acc aligned AI "think tank" Alliance for the Future, has a habit of spewing jawdropping racism and sexism on main (www.transformernews.ai)
Sam Altman is full of shit (and totally has a thing for Scarlett Johansson) (www.wheresyoured.at)
Wake up honey, new Zitron just dropped....
Remember how ChatGPT totally aced the bar exam? Wow! yeah, turns out that was just a lie (www.nytimes.com)
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