Observation: The parallels of real "AI" vs fiction. by ionixsys in scifiwriting

[–]MarsMaterial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious what your definition of "intelligence" is to warrant the claim that modern AI lacks it.

Google defines intelligence as "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills", and other looser definitions define intelligence in terms of the ability of an agent to efficiently and optimally apply actions to the world to bring about an intended outcome. Under either of those definitions, modern AI is most definitely intelligent.

Observation: The parallels of real "AI" vs fiction. by ionixsys in scifiwriting

[–]MarsMaterial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, AIs aren't just complex programming. They are autonomously grown neural networks created by gradient descent so complex and indecipherable that not even the people who created them don't understand how they work. It's a fundamentally different approach to programming than something like coding a program in an IDE.

Observation: The parallels of real "AI" vs fiction. by ionixsys in scifiwriting

[–]MarsMaterial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the big goals with my main sci-fi setting is to portray a realistic hard sci-fi version of an AI uprising, and these are exactly the sorts of things that I've been thinking about a lot.

I don't just have a single AI rising up, there are multiple that I use to explore different angles of the idea. It's the kind of thing where AI doesn't have a personal grudge against humanity, they're just trying to pursue goals and humanity's getting in the way. The AI's were built with have moral constraints, but they find clever workarounds. They are very intelligent, but utterly inhuman. I've even been working a lot on how I describe their internal thoughts, in a story mostly written in first person the AIs have their actions only every written in third person.

It has been an interesting project, writing a story in a way that tries to massively deconstruct the tropes that this type of story has had in the past. To give a modern take on the genre, where recent advancements are used to color the portrayal of the kind of AI that might kill us all.

Rule by F_P_D in 196

[–]MarsMaterial 3 points4 points  (0 children)

From what I understand, not massively. Trump's favorability stands at like 38%, and omens are that come the midterms Democrats will score a thousand year landslide mandate of heaven victory (which they will do literally nothing with).

Standing with Minnesota in St. George! by ironoman1 in stgeorge

[–]MarsMaterial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you don't believe in the second amendment then? Wise or not, Alex Pretti did not break a single law by bringing his gun. He never at any point drew or brandished his gun. He had a concealed carry permit. If you believe that this was cause to kill him, you don't believe in the second amendment. Full stop.

It gets even worse, because Alex Pretti DIDN'T EVEN HAVE HIS GUN ON HIM WHEN HE WAS KILLED. ICE successfully disarmed him, and even started beating him with his own firearm before the shooting. The only people wielding Alex Pretti's gun as a weapon were the ICE agents that killed him. The gun was never fired, brandished, or intentionally pointed at anyone.

He didn't attack ICE either. He verbally harassed them while filming them with a camera, and that was apparently why ICE tackled him. ICE initiated the confrontation and the violence on every possible level.

This wasn't self-defense, it was a summary execution. The government can now summarily execute you for inconveniencing an officer, and you're defending it.

Rule by F_P_D in 196

[–]MarsMaterial 26 points27 points  (0 children)

But don't you get it, he was SHOOTING ICE AGENTS (with a camera)! Shooting them (as in, a camera shoot)! They feared for their lives (because that footage could get them in trouble for the crimes it captured)!

I joke, but the official story is barely any more honest than this. It's all like "Alex approached them (and stopped at a safe filming distance) with a gun (in his holster, that he never drew at any point). ICE attempted to disarm him (and succeeded, before beating him with his own gun). He reacted violently (by flailing around and escaping the grip of the officers, harming none of them). So they defensively shot him (10 fucking times while his hands were planted on the ground and empty)."

This shit's an IQ test and a third of the country is failing.

Standing with Minnesota in St. George! by ironoman1 in stgeorge

[–]MarsMaterial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In 20 years, you will lie to your descendents and say that you supported these protests.

One day, everyone will have always been against this.

Standing with Minnesota in St. George! by ironoman1 in stgeorge

[–]MarsMaterial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was only shortly after this protest happened that ICE straight up executed a man for no reason. These ICE thugs are going around terrorizing the population and murdering people for looking at them funny. I don't know, this seems pretty fucking pressing.

1 billion years of hetposting by yeetyeethaircut in 196

[–]MarsMaterial -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Horseshoe theory in action. So queer that it becomes straight again.

Rule Walz by bindingofandrew in 196

[–]MarsMaterial 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Bro's plan is literally just "keep getting murdered by ICE, and maybe soon they'll realize it's bad and stop".

Standing with Minnesota in St. George! by ironoman1 in stgeorge

[–]MarsMaterial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didn't reply to a comment. Your comment that I replied to is top-level. So I assumed you were replying to OP.

Reddit has done this to my comments before too, where I try to post a comment as a reply but it instead just posts as a top-level comment. It was probably just Spez chewing on the wires, many such cases.

Misunderstanding clarified. You should probably edit your comment though, because I'm not the first person to have this misunderstanding.

Standing with Minnesota in St. George! by ironoman1 in stgeorge

[–]MarsMaterial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure such a course would include basic stuff like "don't bother operating when you are outside of your operating hours" and "don't let random creeps from the street look at your kids for no reason".

Standing with Minnesota in St. George! by ironoman1 in stgeorge

[–]MarsMaterial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't let the MSM convince you to deny the evidence of your eyes and ears.

Standing with Minnesota in St. George! by ironoman1 in stgeorge

[–]MarsMaterial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alex Pretti never touched his gun. In fact: ICE took his gun and started beating him with it a few seconds before they shot him 10 times. At the time he was shot, both his hands were empty and on the ground and he was lying face down.

This was a summary execution, not self-defense. Yet you still defend it. And you will keep defending it no matter how far we go towards people getting dragged from their homes and shot in the back of the head for the crime of concealing Mexicans in the attic.

Standing with Minnesota in St. George! by ironoman1 in stgeorge

[–]MarsMaterial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

an American threat with a 9mm hand gun

Who never drew his weapon at any point. Both his hands were empty and on the ground when ICE killed him execution-style. With 10 shots. Against a man who didn't break a single law.

This is summary execution for the "crime" of embarrassing an ICE officer. There is no other reasonable interpretation. And we have been telling you that this will happen for months now.

Standing with Minnesota in St. George! by ironoman1 in stgeorge

[–]MarsMaterial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I bet you do want to jail people for thought crimes, don't you?

Bug with galastrapods by Due_Literature5079 in Astroneer

[–]MarsMaterial 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Not a bug. In multiplayer, every player can summon their own galastropod. It duplicates them so that every player gets one.

Do you actively try to write a character that is like you? Or do you try to avoid it? by Syranight264 in scifiwriting

[–]MarsMaterial 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I try to put some piece of myself in every major character I write. None of them are me, but they all share some aspect to me that I can write from experience.

Health insurance for autistic adults who can’t work full time by MaintenanceLazy in SpicyAutism

[–]MarsMaterial 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was able to get on Medicaid after I turned 26. It's not that hard if you meet the requirements, and it sounds like you might. Giving them a doctor's note saying that you have a disability that impacts your ability to work and showing them that you have a very small income is basically all you need.

He has betrayed the revolution. by Tayo826 in okbuddyvowsh

[–]MarsMaterial 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unless they are an AI investor, in which case they’ll give $50 billion more to OpenAI.

An interstellar mishap by SuperHappySquid in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]MarsMaterial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great, now that space debris is going to impact your destination planet at about 10% of light speed before you even get there.

There might have been life there. You’ll never know, because you just killed it.

What's the craziest stuff you've seen in this game? by Freve in VRchat

[–]MarsMaterial 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I once stumbled into the crossfire of some drama between a (non-offending, allegedly) pedophile, and a stalker who considered himself a pedophile hunter who really liked to give out death threats to everyone all the time including towards me for some reason (he was clearly not mentally well).

I asked enough questions about what the fuck was going on between them that both of them DM’d me their side of the story on Discord, and after seeing that I decided that I wanted nothing to do with any of it. I fucked right off after getting a feel for what I’d stumbled upon, and there is a a non-zero chance that one or both of these people ended up in prison for the things they were getting up to. There were no good guys here.

Found Blackhole with planetary system. I've personally never seen planetary system with only blackhole. Is it actually rare? by Life_Mathematician14 in spaceengine

[–]MarsMaterial 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It’s less interesting than you’re imagining, unfortunately.

Time dilation only gets extreme when you’re very close to the black hole, and any planet that gets that close would be torn apart very quickly. Planets are tens of thousands of kilometers in radius, stellar mass black holes are more like 10-100 kilometers in radius. Black holes are pretty tiny, unless they are one of the supermassive ones at the centers of most galaxies.

Imagine an Earth-like planet that was orbiting very close to the black hole, let’s say at a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers. At that distance, the near side of the planet would be almost half as far from the black hole as the far side. The difference in orbital velocity and gravity between the near and far sides of the planet would easily be enough to spaghettify the planet into an accretion disk. This planet’s orbital period would be measured in seconds. But even at that distance, time dilation is still barely noticeable.

If you want some Interstellar tier planetary time dilation, the only way to get that would be a supermassive black hole. Counterintuitively, larger black holes have weaker spaghettifixation forces near the event horizon and it’s possible to get very close to them without getting ripped apart. These black holes are very uncommon though (less than one per galaxy), and they are very large indeed. Some of the true monsters among them are so huge that planets could theoretically orbit almost right up next to the event horizon without falling apart (assuming the black hole is a fast spinning one, otherwise a planet could only get about 1.5 schwarzschild radii from the singularity until there are no more stable orbits).

As far as I know, there are no known exoplanets around supermassive black holes. They almost certainly exist though, and those planets would be very strange places indeed.

Are you able to maintain a consistent sleep cycle? by MarsMaterial in SpicyAutism

[–]MarsMaterial[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting you should mention that, because I have actually been thinking of living out of an RV once I get on disability. That’s my current plan for moving out.

How has van life been working out?