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By the way, granting AI personhood would not mean it gets special privileges or extra protection or sth.
Companies are legally speaking persons too. That doesn’t mean that people recognize them as “alive and sentient”. It merely means that companies are able to possess property, enter contracts, file lawsuits, and such. Not more, not less.
humans are a virus and the earth has a fever
now one might be tempted to say that that’s a bad thing, but in my experience you can also catch a fever when you’re really positively excited about something. and virus … well, let’s say, to me it’s not an all-negative term either. knowledge is a virus (i wish i could link to an earlier blog post of mine about this, but unfortunately i never wrote down my ideas about this). basically, knowledge spreads just like a virus, it’s immaterial, consists of information, and has the typical replication patterns of viruses, including being subject to mutation and selection.
the thing about an atmosphere is that it protects you from a lot of radiation. like, alpha radiation makes a significant part of the radiation hitting you in outer space, but it’s too weak to go through a sheet of paper so it’s also gonna be stopped by an atmosphere of a planet. and the same goes for beta radiation, which is also easily stopped by an atmosphere. and that’s significant because it protects you from like 99% of all (particle) radiation.
on top of that an atmosphere replenishes volatile chemicals like CO2 and H2O all the time (or at least some volatile molecules) and that’s nice-to-have.
Also important is the heat capacity of the atmosphere. Even if the atmosphere is thin, it makes a lot of difference. I should go about calculating the difference that mars’ atmosphere makes in terms of temperature sometimes. Like, how hot/cold would it be in the day/night if it didn’t have an atmosphere. I guess it would be more extreme, but by how much? I should look into that sometime.
like, i remember doing the maths a while ago and figuring out the following:
a planet needs to be in a certain mass range (from minimum mass to maximum mass) to be attractive to long-term human setttlement.
it is remarkable that earth is in this narrow mass range. there’s only a handful of objects in the solar system who are in this mass range: earth, mars, venus, the 4 biggest moons of jupyter, and the biggest moon of saturn (i hope i didn’t forget anyone). that’s why i think that these objects are especially interesting for long-term human settlement.
fun fact: in medieval astronomy/astrology (these things were not yet distinct back then), earth was indeed “mid” as it was the middle of the planets; all other planets circled around it.
later in early modern age, earth was “mid” again but in another sense (the planets circling around the sun was accepted by then). uranus and neptune were not yet discovered, so there were only 7 known objects (+ the moon) in the solar system: sun, mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupyter, saturn. again, earth was exactly in the middle of that order.
stop doing updates then
They’re cancerous.
I’m a weeb and i’m honored to be described as the final glory of evolution, but no, your comment is factually incorrect. i’m not a crab, and don’t intend to become one either.
People have inferiority complex when they’re young so they feel they need to brag with how “badass” they are.
When you’re older you understand that true wisdom is in the little things, in the things that don’t look like much but make up a healthy society.
yeah i mixed it up with an O’Neill cylinder.
tbf there’s a continuous transition between ordinary space station and dyson sphere. and we already have a space station today.
edit: sry i mixed up dyson sphere and o’neill cylinder again.
“We’re not far from a world — I think we’ll be there in three to six months — where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then in 12 months we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code.”
They haven’t mastered the true Zen yet. The bad programmer writes a lot of spaghetti code that is impossible to debug and fix, so it has to be rewritten. The good programmer writes a few lines of efficient code and is done with the work. The enlightened programmer realizes this feature already exists in another program and doesn’t need to be reproduced. The enlightened programmer writes no code.
These CEOs are very far from enlightened, because they try to increase the amount of code that is written, rather than decrease it.
Every now and then I “forget” this and suffer again
understandable, happens to me too
thanks :) i will look into it when i have some time for it :D
pretty good way to summarize my opinion of it as well :3
to summarize:
in the past, the US forced everyone to comply with US tech because the US was economically too powerful to deny requests to, but now that is changing because US economy is not so important internationally anymore, due to tariffs but also because US consumers are becoming poorer and therefore less important as a consumer market, so it’s easier to ignore the US and their requests.
i actually misread the comic as “four little sips” at first.
It’s all bullshit anyways, ignore what society expects of you and be free.
The thing with taking responsibility is that it isn’t actually about punishing a potential maldoer.
It’s to ensure that a safe outcome is guaranteed (as much as realistically possible). If you have a fire-proof door that automatically seals itself air-tight in case of a fire and stops the fire that way, that door is considered responsible too. Even though it doesn’t have a single living cell in it.