If I recall correctly, the concept of “memes” was invented to illustrate the universality of Darwinian evolution in non-genetic systems, rather than as an attempt to explain results or make predictions.
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Sorry, but “this’ll probably get down voted, but” just doesn’t work here.
It is a hypothetical situation of unreasonably high security that tries to probe for an upper bound on the level of containment required to secure an AI.
There’s a fence in the San Diego Zoo that I leaned on before reading a nearby sign: CAUTION, ELECTRIC FENCE.
If you’re going to dodge defining existence, please at least clarify your point by telling us which of these things “exist”:
a) irrational numbers
b) sets
c) postmodernism
d) the number of Langford pairings of length 100
e) negative numbers
f) quaternions
RationalWiki is a wiki because it was made with the sole intent to make fun of Conservapedia.
This is a comic, but not a rage comic. Not all comics on Reddit are rage comics.
Sokka: Can your fortune telling explain that?! (points to volcano eruption)
Villager: Can your science explain why it rains?
Sokka: Yes! Yes it can!
-- Avatar: The Last Airbender
Shooting skeet eight hours a month was excellent training for them. It trained them to shoot skeet.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
a million dollars is the mind-killer
So, scope insensitivity?
Clevinger exclaimed to Yossarian in a voice rising and falling in protest and wonder. “It’s a complete reversion to primitive superstition. They’re confusing cause and effect. It makes as much sense as knocking on wood or crossing your fingers. They really believe that we wouldn’t have to fly that mission tomorrow if someone would only tiptoe up to the map in the middle of the night and move the bomb line over Bologna. Can you imagine? You and I must be the only rational ones left.” In the middle of the night Yossarian knocked on wood, crossed his fingers, and tiptoed out of his tent to move the bomb line up over Bologna.
Joseph Heller (Catch-22)
Some fruit hang so low you have to bend down to reach them.
Well.
One reason gender politics is especially “mind-killing” is that the two least interesting/statistically significant/improbable positions (males are more THIS than females, females more THAT than males) also happen to be the two positions seen as the “strongest”.
When I come across a pseudoscience I haven’t seen before, I usually go to Google first to check its position with regard to reality.
Then I go to its RationalWiki article for entertainment. This is essential if I don’t want to spend the rest of the day fuming at how many people “actually believe in that stuff”.
From what I’ve heard about the demographics here, you might want to ask whether the gum contains nicotine.
We generally don’t take well to Reddit-style politics. It usually degrades quickly into a “circlejerk”, which is what our goal here is to avoid.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s. —William Blake
Best taken in the context of AI.
Actually, I believe that the snowing on the map, which is claimed to affect the blast radius of a nuclear strike on the territory, occurs before the Global Crisis as the beginning a sort of slippery slope into the complete confusion of map and territory and the resultant chaos.
I find it rather irritating when someone does this every time I use the words “soul” or “God” in a rhetorical context.
I believe in neither, but both words have their uses.