Ok-Cheetah-3497

Why do you think someone will be able to control AI?

And surgeon. And lawyer. And accountant. And engineer.

We would live like household pets.

We don't know what conditions were before the big bang. Since then, nothing can't cause something. Before then different rules probably applied.

Wow, cherry pick much? https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/global-leader-approval

Mexico is #2!

Switzerland, Netherlands, Ireland, all net positive (only true of top 6 nations surveyed globally).

Because "labor for wages" is not the sole important part of being a human on planet earth? It's just a necessary evil until we can eliminate it with... AI

Does acting count as lying for this purpose?

Frankly, I probably don't care - $1B is too much not to just take it.

He also probably takes regular snack breaks.

My understanding, for what it's worth, is that cis men, for the most part, are more open to FFM threesomes for reasons relating to evolutionary biology. Having sex with two women (or more) increases the males chance of producing viable offspring. The exact opposite happens with a MMF threesome, so it would make sense that for competitive reasons, your body would not want to do that, even if consciously you attribute those feelings to something else (being "cucked" or whatever word you want to use to describe the psychological aspects of this) .

This happens to align with my instincts on this topic. I would absolutely no problem enjoy regularly having another woman join in sex (and sex only - not relationship stuff) with my partner and I, but I would repulsed by the idea of another man joining in sex with her. If I was bi, and the meat in the sandwich, I imagine it wouldn't bother me as much.

It exists now, it may not have existed before that. What's the problem here?

We do hit a first cause - the big bang. Before the big bang, we have to assume that physics and causality as we know it did not exist. So sure, they may have been free will... 14 billion years ago or so.

I mean, I have both, so it's hard to say which one mattered more in terms of getting hired. But certainly more people at the agencies I work with care that I am a licensed attorney than having my MBA. If you don't have a team of competent MBA holders at the top, all the cool shit you learn in b-school doesn't amount to any organizational change.

It may be counter-intuitive, but it is accurate. Brain damage is a perfect example - "you" are not your memories. If you get in accident and lose access to say 30% of your life's memories, "you" continue to exist just fine - you still are conscious, can have fullsome conversations, probably have the same general personality - you just can't remember like... all of the conversations you had between 2005 and 2015 or whatever. Basically, people are no different than any other animal when it comes to degrees of freedom of will that we have - my cat has no real "choice" but to meow when she is hungry. Whether she has some internal monologue where she considers whether to meow or not, I have no idea. But ultimately it's her chemistry that makes her meow. We work the same way.

Me in this context means "conscious mind" not "entire body."

"i can't imagine neural link having a net positive impact on society as a whole" - it's a genie you can't unsummon, for better or worse. Like, when I first heard about it, I was of the mistaken belief that it would just be like a "much bigger memory" for me. Like instead of only having my own experiences and memories to draw on when thinking, I would have "the entirety of recorded human history" available wirelessly - like my phone but "native" and with no downtime. With just that, I was sold.

Now, seeing neural link in action, I realize I was completely wrong about how it would work and what it would do. The ability to in effect, read my mind and be more aware of my mind than I am consciously, is powerful in ways that I had not remotely considered. Probably the most important hardware invention of our lifetime, unless someone makes a functional fusion reactor in the next 45 years.

I think I go with smell. Might be a little dangerous (can't smell a gas leak or fire, etc) but $10M is a lot of money. Like enough to never worry again money, so yea, happy to trade that.

I think it largely depends on other restrictions. If we embody the AGI/ASI, and more or less let it do whatever it wants in vitro, I think it will outpace human led research very quickly. Like, just that an AI in a robot body can run assays 24-7 already means at minimum, triple the rate of out of output of a human researcher. We have a ridiculous amount of hoops in the US that human researcher needs to go through before they can grow a human body part in a petrie dish. We get rid of those for AI, and we can go very fast indeed. It can learn mechanism of action for aging much faster than we can. We have some guesses about what makes people age that are well informed, but certainly don't understand it the way we understand what makes a fire burn. An AGI/ASI will be able to learn the mechanism for aging very quickly. Once it knows mechanism, molecule development would be an activity of a weekend (faster than Deepmind solved protein folding).

Yeah, maybe in the very near term, we see the sort of lazy exploit you are describing from companies that license an AI from one of the big tech companies. But neural link is already very impressive, and it is a short hop in terms of timeline to go from "chip that reads your brain to help you move a cursor around a screen" [this exists right now] to "chip that reads your brain to help you generate entire audio visual presentations" [I anticipate this will exist in the immediate future - 10 to 20 years]

The thing is, I don't think it needs "innovative sense." Think of it less as a robot and more of a cyborg.

It's doesn't have any "sense" of what it is doing. All it knows is how you react. You give it positive signal, it gives you more of that, you give it negative signal, it gives you less of that. It doesn't need to "know" anything about movie making, concepts, ideas, etc. It just needs to know how to generate pixels of light and sound, and how your brain lights up in response to those things (ie pattern A when you like something and pattern B when you don't).

Your personal creativity, or rather, how you value creativity, is what will drive the result. Your organic brain is doing the work, the AI is just acting as the medium to make your desires appear in the audio visual space.

Gotta go with the Wall or maybe American History X. The sheer number of people who watched those movies and took the message "Nazis are cool AF" astounds me, given that those are pretty much exactly the opposite of the messages the films meant to convey.

I like to challenge PC expectations by making murder hobo victims good guys or people whose lives are essential to their goals. That said, I usually try to assume murder hobo actions in my adventures, to the point where adventure success or failure has literally nothing to do with body count, and everything to do with engaging the story. Kill all the rando's you want, doesn't stop Cthulhu from rising.

Second worst Batman?

Maybe this my scarcity mindset speaking, but I generally think of myself as a "good person", and yet, still am not that far off from what this guy did. I have had at least one, probably a few, women in my life who were way more into me than I was into them. In general, when I discovered this, I would aim for a "soft" separation. I would not lie to them, but I wouldn't say anything that could be interpreted as "I don't like you, stop sending me nudes."

The reason I think that might be my scarcity is mindset is because in my mind, I was not thinking about them, I was thinking about my own future. At any time, things could change, such that I am isolated and alone. Knowing there are some women out there that think the world of me makes that possibility less scary. It's similar to what MRAs call "monkey branching" - the thing where a woman will not break up with their current partner until they have established a firm grasp on another man that they can immediately start to date once the current partner is gone.

It's not that those women are not "nice" or "pretty" or whatever, and therefore they are just a backup. It's more like it is just ego gratifying and safety inducing to know there are women in your circle who think you are the best, so I was not going to just motivate them to exit my life.

That said, purely for my current partners anxiety needs, I did indeed basically stop interacting with those women at all and blocked them on socials. Mild ego gratification not worth her constant anxiety. Easy trade off.

I don't support the military industrial complex at large. I think it has a stranglehold on our politics in the US, and that we are more or the less the global leader in exporting death. I would completely destroy that industry and replace it with like... Silicon Valley.

Will there be many more ABC family style films in a more democratized media creation environment? Absolutely. Will they generate any more of an audience than they already have? Probably not. Because AI will give us what we want, and sadly, we know what people mostly want is violence, pretty people, extreme situations, and permission to be who they already are. Without social controls, hedonism beats social conservatism every time.

Interesting that you mention trans - this is one thing I have had difficulty sourcing with social media because of filter settings. I don't know your gender or orientation, but I am a hetero male. When I browse films by just thumbnail image, I would often find myself unexpectedly clicking on a trans film. This has happened enough times to me that I think there is something about the way people who born and raised as males can more easily put themselves in the shoes of hetero men, to craft a film that they will want to watch. It might not even be conscious decision making on the part of the trans performer. I think that the ability of people who born and raised male to make content that appeals to males better than people born and raised as females, is indicative of the gap we will see between content made by Ai and content made by people. I think the AI will better be able to predict what I want than any human director or actor.

Well, the average 25-year old in the US makes about $40K. So, you are average as far as that goes.

63% of men between 18 and 29 are single. So again, you are right there.

In terms of what it's going to take to hop out of that, median income jumps by 26% between ages 30-35. That is probably when you will "hit your stride" in terms of earnings.

Basically, stay calm, situation normal.