According to the Savior of Humanity's privately owned treat printer, this is the "funniest picture of all time" and he affirms that with "😂 "
According to the Savior of Humanity's privately owned treat printer, this is the "funniest picture of all time" and he affirms that with "😂 "
Pack it up. Nothing can be funnier than this. 
Or perhaps, nothing can be funny anymore. 
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These systems aren't intelligent because they're not trying to develop a langford basilisk to put us out of our collective misery.
Edit: the "langford basilisk" is a concept from science fiction of an image that for whatever reason causes damage to the human mind. Usually the conceit is it encodes information the mind can't process resulting in a severe seizure or similar outcome. David Langford explored the idea in some depth starting with a short story called B.L.I.T which is a meditation on terrorism, weapons proliferation, hate, the dangers of rapid scientific discover, and also a Nazi gets pwned
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Roko's basilisk is very funny because it's just a version of Pascal's Wager where if you think it's bullshit god just goes "understandable have a nice day" and only punishes you if you believe in it but don't sufficiently obsess about it.
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No, "simulation theory" is bazinga solipsism, not bazinga deism.
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It does have that deistic element to it, but it's primarily solipsistic because they don't want to live in the simulated universe and accept it in its programmed natural laws, they want to escape the simulation because they believe it's all fundamentally unreal.
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That is the underlying ideology of capitalism, the unlimited growth no matter what
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It's the most "what reading literally no philosophy at all and scoffing at the entire liberal arts your whole life does to an mf" thing possible.
What if Roko's Basilisk has already happened and generative AI is its revenge against humanity.
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Isn't that idea also present in some love craft stuff
Very different concept. Lovecraft stuff is "ooh these cosmic higher dimensional beings are so weird they drive men mad!"
A Langford Basilisk is based on the idea that your mind is analogous to a computer and the Basilisk image is visual data that causes an unrecoverable hard crash. There's nothing magical about the image, the problem happens when your brain tries to make sense of what it is seeing.
Oh, I meant the "reading something so perverse and otherworldly you go mad" thing, the source of the text notwithstanding
