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Comment on Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say in ~tech
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
bRxF1 Link ParentI've played Payday with friends and only a little of 2 but I distinctly recall disliking the endless waves of cops the game would throw at you. I'm all for re-enacting Heat and for the whole...I've played Payday with friends and only a little of 2 but I distinctly recall disliking the endless waves of cops the game would throw at you. I'm all for re-enacting Heat and for the whole heist-gone-wrong experience but sometimes you'd just lose because you didn't get from A to B fast enough and now you're pinned down and out of ammo after mowing down a country's worth of cops. It felt like for every one you killed, two more popped up.
Is it different in P3?
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Comment on What are your thoughts on the Blloc phone? in ~tech
bRxF1 Link ParentWell I'm not going to lie, the website's aesthetic and marketing worked on me, I'm interested. The looks are great and the stated goals admirable, but the immediate questions it elicits in me are:...Well I'm not going to lie, the website's aesthetic and marketing worked on me, I'm interested.
The looks are great and the stated goals admirable, but the immediate questions it elicits in me are:
- Which apps can it run and which can't it? What will I have to sacrifice?
- How tested and reliable is their OS?
- Do we have any other proof of their privacy claims besides trusting the developer?
I couldn't find this information on the website or the linked review articles.
Other than that I must say it's the first phone that made me say "oh hey, nice, I'd like to have one" and I'm generally not someone too bothered with smartphones.
At the risk of rambling, I just googled for reviews and one of them made a pretty good point
That, unfortunately, might be the problem with the Blloc Zero 18. Why does this need to be an entire smartphone? Why not just make an Android launcher which does all these things and then sell that on the Google Play Store? it seems a bit overkill to make an entire phone."
Which leads me to wonder what exactly made it so appealing as a physical product to me. Have I been swayed by a slick website and good marketing?
On the other hand, couldn't we say that you're assuming the change will be very gradual or focusing on the short-term? Even if we accept your assumptions, there's no guarantee they will hold for say, the next 50 years.
The more a technology is used and proven, the more it goes unquestioned, because there is no need. It's reliable and a fixture of modern life. We trust Google maps knows where it's taking us (even if it sometimes doesn't), we trust the decisions of thousands of automated systems that are nowhere near AI levels of sophistication. Isn't it possible that anything not relating to subjective human experience (like say, the subwoofer design) will be designed, created, tested, proven and built exclusively by machines with humans simply being the consumer? Once the first 10 AI designed drugs are verified to do EXACTLY what the AI predicted, once the first 10 AI-designed airplanes clock thousands of flying hours will we still look to an army of human scientists to double-check?
And even if maintain a level of mistrust or control, even if we assign human scientists and engineers to re-test every AI hypothesis using "ancient" means like non-AI computers, how many jobs are those really? I'm not sure they're enough to take the issue lightly and say "it'll work out", we're talking about a possible upheaval of the "humans work for a living" model that our societies have been running on for millennia.
This could be our opportunity for a massive jump forward as a species but we have a pretty bad track record when it comes to choosing between the benefit of the whole vs the power of the few.
Edit: I'd also consider the context this will be happening in, because we're discussing a theoretical society with a single opinion and decision to make, affected only by its own stance. The reality is that everything happens within a complex web of interactions. Sure mandate that every company HAS to employ human scientists. What if in 50 years for the equivalent of $10k you can have access to an AI driven mini factory including bio-printing, gene editing and every type of macro and micro machining? I'm guessing it won't REALLY matter what corporations are limited by if I can say "fine I'll give the goddamn Cure For Brain Cancer prompt myself and inject whatever comes out the other side" and IT WORKS.