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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I'm not trying to argue for or against this position. As I said all I'm doing is explaining a misrepresentation of the position that people are holding, namely that "a machine that can't think straight will do it for us."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I don't see what it's going to conclude that we haven't already.

Well, that's the point of trying to build ASI. To have it think of things that we haven't been able to think of.

I really, really, can't picture a scenario where we actually listen.

Of course not, you're not an ASI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That's fine, I'm just correcting the misrepresentation of the view that was in the headline.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (11 children)

Nobody's expecting a "machine that can't think straight" to do it. Some people are hoping that a more competent machine will be developed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

Geoengineering is a field dedicated to exactly that - mitigating climate change by modifying solar input and so forth.

Basically, the Republicans have been shooting the environment and now want to ban tourniquets and sutures.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Maybe this is because China just said they needed Russia to win? Trump's got an obsession with opposing China.

Or maybe it's just the way the mush inside Trump's skull happened to flow this particular day.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Next headline up: Taliban sends troops to Kursk to support Russian defenders there.

This timeline just keeps getting weirder.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Now make the exact same meme but substitute "AI training" for "piracy" and watch the downvotes flow in.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 day ago (8 children)

If you asked "what do Holocaust deniers believe" I would expect answers like this.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

Israel: "Hang on, we're not done killing everyone first."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Okay, but not sure what that has to do with my point. It still supports the notion that giving weapons and similar supplies to a party fighting a war involves you in that war.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Iron, aluminium, titanium, oxygen, silicon, phosphorus, potassium, I could go on listing elements at great length. There are plenty of resources out there. Celestial bodies are made of resources. You name it, you can find it out there in various abundances.

Helium-3 is just one of the few things you can find out there that is basically unavailable on Earth. It's myopic to focus solely on that.

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