Why Does Christianity Flourish?
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As a follow up to this post I ask another question.
Or maybe AI wrote the article to cover its tracks by leaving enough breadcrumbs for you to convince yourself that it didn't really just obtain sentience. LOL. Hey, it's fun down here in...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 16 minutes ago
A virtual lobotomy machine might result from AI demonstrating its superiority so many times that people come to rely on it for guidance without thinking. That would only be a bad thing if AI, on...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 18 minutes ago
Some years back I read an AI researcher who characterized AI research as a quest "to make computers act like the ones in movies." (But without the shopworn plot twist of "and then...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 24 minutes ago
From the OP:
An artificial-intelligence model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down.
That is...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 28 minutes ago
The general hill-climbing strategy with animal training seems to be: try a bunch of things on your animal, and notice the animal's responses. If any of those responses are even slightly in the...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 32 minutes ago
Very possibly, if a method exists and is learnable. An AI could test billions of motivational strategies on millions of cats, and converge reliably on (a) method(s) that work(s), if such method(s)...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 35 minutes ago
And another point:
the reason AGW was generally replaced with the term Climate Change
Rebranding isn't a solution to the fundamental problem here, which is the fact...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 43 minutes ago
Also, to this point:
Even when it is explained [...]
This is where Socratic questioning/dialogue may sometimes help. Many human brains resist being lectured, as brains often...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 52 minutes ago
One of those flimsy rationalizations, of course, is Ehrman's appeal to credentials and academic appointments. Which as Carrier explains is self-fulfilling due to policing of academic...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 1 hour ago
Note in particular from the chat transcript the analogy with the Cognitive Reflection Test, which illustrates the snap judgement tendencies of System 1, along with System 2's tendency to be...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 1 hour ago
I'm surrounded by such folk.
Relatable! Particularly in the USA just now where such folk control all three branches of the Federal government.
Even when it...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 1 hour ago
I've (provisionally) concluded that the human species is like a shipwreck victim who drowns within sight of land, because they can't swim that last bit to reach safety. Science is getting...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 1 hour ago
Will AI be able to get a cat to do what AI wants and not what the cat wants?
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 1 hour ago
It's possible, for example, for a person to be stupid enough not to understand the difference between "climate" and "weather"*, and yet still hold down a job....
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 3 hours ago
Hah, this reminds me of last night's random Web browsing that led me (somehow) to the "Special interests" (Wikipedia link) ofautistics...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 7 hours ago
But he could still be persecuted by his historicist peers or ridiculed as a crank. Maybe for whatever reason Ehrman cares more about how superstitionists perceive him than he cares...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 8 hours ago
Musk is also on record of having said he thinks democracy is obsolete and all the country's decision making needs to be turned over to people like him. He has also stated that empathy is...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 9 hours ago
Sorry to rain on your parade, but a child has a will of its own, AI doesn't. It seems that you are buying into the hype that's on all social media. In fact there is NO INTELLIGENCE in AI...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 12 hours ago
A sticky problem for AI, so far, is the embodiment problem.
I'm visualizing a script for a billion dollar movie just now...AI created a lobotomy machine, but convinced...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 15 hours ago
Um...does this OP make anybody want to watch "I, Robot" again?
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 16 hours ago
Your logic doesn't follow in the case of parents who raise a child who then becomes an adult criminal. Aren't you open to the law of unintended consequences, i.e., that if physicalism is...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 16 hours ago
Right-wingers are complaining about how AI is too "woke" for their tastes.
If AI is engaging in the dishonest manipulations outlined in the OP, the door is fully...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 16 hours ago
What are your thoughts on the disturbing fact that most serial killers have high IQs? Is there a reason why above-average smarts seems to correlate with lacking normative empathy? That had been my...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 16 hours ago
The Bible has held my attention for a long time and I think it will for the foreseeable future.
Hah, this reminds me of last night's random Web browsing that led me...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 22 hours ago
Ehrman is a millionaire.
Ah, good point, I hadn't thought of that. According to DuckAI:
Bart Ehrman's net worth is estimated to be between two and...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 22 hours ago