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Systems programmer specializing in cybersecurity and rabbit holes Mass in our manifold falls toward its local center of gravity and, at the same time, toward the single point outside of our manifold where the Big Bang originated. - Lucifer’s Topology

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joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · Jan 26

#photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #minneapolis #streetphotography #pentax

"Parcels, Afternoon, Minneapolis"

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joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 10h

I see 'they're using voter registration data' in these threads, but is there any proof of that? Why do people say that, if there's proof it's a clear crime that will be prosecutable for the next 5 to 7 years.

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joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 11h

in other words,

a) It's fully possible to create an AGI artificial being that has full agency, self awareness, sentience, and whatever needs and desires that emerge from that.

b) It's fully possible to create an AGI artificial being that has full agency

b) is a subset of a) and we will choose b)

joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 11h

Term sentience is used at least three different ways.

Most AGI research focuses on capability generalization: reasoning, memory, tool use, planning — none of which demand subjective awareness or would need it.

I think one guy (Chalmers) thinks self-awareness is always emergent, most disagree

joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 11h

Ah. I must have been lucky enough to avoid them so far, although I have been put on what looks to be an 'AI fan' list which is probably weeding those interactions out

joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 11h

I'm missing some background on what you may be referring to but 'sentience' becomes extremely relevant if it's ever achievable in the sense that it should in almost all cases be outlawed. It's not necessary for AGI to work and should not be naturally emergent in anything we try to build.

joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · Apr 25

There’s no physical reason they can’t become sentient eventually unless we believe there’s something supernatural about the animal brain.

But there’s also no reason they *have* to become sentient or that sentience is always going to emerge from intelligence.

I suspect we would have to >

joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 11h

I'll admit I'm having a hard time following your argument, but as an aside are people using 'clanker' to describe a person? I've only seen it used to describe an AI bot masquerading as a human interactively or to describe some LLM-generated text or art

joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 12h

.. in our case that Orga artifact would essentially be our system's achievement and one of the universe's greatest computers: DNA

joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 13h

Another note: if there is no FTL travel ever possible, no physics-breaking hyperspace achievable, etc, then by far it's most likely that Mecha is all that ever reaches other planetary systems.

Only Mecha branch of any planet's life is capable of making the journey, possibly carrying Orga artifacts

joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 13h

Reason for this organization could be:

a) Mecha by definition can never emerge on it's own in any planetary system, and

b) may almost always emerge from any species that simply gets past a certain intelligence threshold

Of note: Mecha would vary less between systems than Orga subcategories would

joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 13h

.. and I just realized I probably have that character sheet saved with all my yellowing, decades-old dnd stuff, I should go find it & delve into his sordid history

joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 13h

Long time ago, as I recall my choices at the time were very narrow and kinda king-arthur, noble dude only. Might have been a Christian paladin although I know none of us were really religious. Maybe it's expanded in scope since then, maybe I saw a satan-paladin trend coming :)

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joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 13h

Once I played a Paladin who are always lawful good and are supposed to keep their armor perfectly clean.

After a battle I stated that my armor now had blood al over it and I was going to keep it that way, "steeped in the colors of my trade." (we had just read Macbeth in HS)

Major upset, all wrong

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joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 14h

Immediate thought: build continual firehose stream watcher that immediately builds active pages matching those glitched URLs when encountered in the stream. These adhoc sites only play rick astley videos

joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 14h

Let's ask the horses' mouth! :)

Seriously I like seeing and hearing about coding workflows, I feel like my efficiency is 2 steps forward, 1.5 steps back, and I want to move to only 0.5 steps back