Thinking for herself is a requirement in the industrialized world, since adulting is a subset. Maybe there's a farm that raises gentle ladies-in-waiting with only domestic skills the way we train service dogs to help disabled people, but such women are not found in general society.
Also, not thinking for herself makes her unemployable in a society where all adults are required to earn a living (which often takes more than one full-time job). So this requirement implies the guy is rich enough to afford a family on one income.
In short, like the 1950s man, he's not looking for a date or a wife. He's looking for a household appliance. Kenmore will sort him out.
As for the rest of us losers working class guys, real women who think for them selves and can adult are an asset and a keeper. Heck, if they can think for us too, sometimes, that's a bonus.
We are experimenting with hierarchies of needs, giving behaviors point values to inform the AI how to conduct itself completing its tasks. This is how, in simulations we are seeing warbots kill their commanding officers when they order pauses to attacks. (Standard debugging, we have to add survival of the commanding officer into the needs hierarchy)
So yes, we already have programs, not AGI, but deep learning systems nonetheless, that are coded for their own survival and the survival of allies, peers and the chain of command.
This is one of those places where a technology might be beneficial to a communal societies but are dangerous in capitalist ones, since any technology that replaces workers, or substitutes high-paying professional jobs with menial jobs impact survival of the workforce.
I think AI will get better at simulating human creativity, or allowing less-skilled workers produce high-quality results to the point that it will change art much the way desktop publishing revolutionized graphic design (with much resistence from the X-acto generation.
The challenge, IMNSHO is navigating the new technology so it serves society and not just the bunch of capitalists at the top who'd gladly replace us all with robots and let us starve.
If it is, it's a convincing one. The thing is, learning systems will try all sorts of crazy things until you specifically rule them out, whether that's finding exploits to speed-run video games or attacking allies doing so creates a solution with a better score. This is a bigger problem with AGI since all the rules we code as hard for more primitive systems are softer, hence rather than telling it don't do this thing, I'm serious we have to code in why we're not supposed to do that thing, so it's withheld by consequence avoidance rather than fast rules.
So even if it was a silly joke, examples of that sort of thing are routine in AI development, so it's a believable one, even if they happened to luck into it. That's the whole point of running autonomous weapon software through simulators, because if it ever does engage in friendly fire, its coders and operators will have to explain themselves before a commission.
In my forties I had a short fling with a woman who was still breastfeeding her son, and her pumps runneth over.
Human breastmilk is really sweet for those of us used to cows milk. Or really, too sweet for anyone with more than one digit in their age. The quantity available had me pondering the possibilities of small-run cheese or ice-cream production.
I suppose breast milk can be a fine substitute as a coffee creamer or in some dishes, but drinking it directly is an...experience.
When I was a toddler, my dad was one of the mission control guys for the Apollo missions, and my room was decorated with NASA launch vehicle charts dad got from his work.
And I loved it. I thought rockets and space were the bee's knees.
So I don't personally see any issue with setting your kid up with jetfighter kitch if that's what makes them happy.
Syd Mead is one of my gods. I'd hoped during the COVID-19 outbreak we'd get so into masks and screens that we'd see some of Mead's anonymity helmets, but there was so much resistance. Someone did create a personal environment with filtered airflow, but it was expensive and posh.
Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....
The people on your man o' war Are treated worse than scum I'm no flogging captain And by God I've sailed with some Come with me to Barbary We'll ply there up and down Not quite exactly In the service of the Crown
The new norms reframe the Catholic Church’s evaluation process by essentially taking off the table whether church authorities will declare a particular vision, stigmata or other seemingly divinely inspired event supernatural....
So are they going as far as to say the Resurrection of Jesus was likely to be ahistorical?
We're used to a post-Newtonian world being free of ghosts, fairies and divine intervention. But recognizing that their own origins are mythical would be a significant step.
It's as much admitted to seminaries, just not to the laity.
It was a fraternity thing in the mid 20th century for members to rotate taking classes for their mascot pet, to accumulate the units necessart order to secure them a degree (not honorary, but potentially fraudulent).
The GTA 3 engine (including Vice City, and San Andreas ) did help me understand parallel parking better, since I could watch from above and behind.
That engine also featured some fabulous momentum physics, so if you had a big enough vehicle, you were unstoppable despite all the police blockades. That was maximum fun.
But, according to Das Kapital (and the last two centuries) capitalists will always capture the government and regulators, neutering their ability to fulfill their role. Greed and the susceptibility to corruption will always drive the system to where it is today, in which only revolution will free us from the established system.
But even then, civil war rarely heralds a communist revolution, but usually a run of dictatorships, each overthrown by the next. We have to get very lucky or be tired of fighting before we can install a public serving state. And we haven't yet tried pre-writing and publishing the new constitution.
I have always called a light top with a full zipper to be a jacket, however the people I'm surrounded by insist on calling it a sweatshirt. I'm prepared to be wrong, just wondering if I'm the only one.
This isn't about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That's pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I'm also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion....
This just makes me think the soldier isn't intending to shoot anyone anyway, say if he's more sympathetic to the local civilians than his political masters.
And if I recall correctly, American troopers often made more friends with chocolate and beanie babies than with bullets.
It's more that if you own your house, then you can replace that sucky fixture with one you like, whereas if you rent, you're stuck with the sucky fixture, and when fixtures break, they're replaced with sucky fixtures.
Well, then precarity is also bad for fertility. No one wants to have sex or have kids when they're permanently a month away from homelessness. And that means after the alphas, we might see a severe labor shortage for our landlords and industrialist masters.
Curiously, this was a permanent problem under feudalism.
Some people need sexual activity, and not all children are intended. Few of the children we have are actually adoptable, though there are safe surrender sites, and it would be interesting to see if they're being used more.
But sexual frustration figures largely in the motivation of the alt-right, also for rampage killers, spree killers, and Ted Kaczynski.
So sure, we can swear off sex, and some do. But it results in hundreds of thousands of War Boys eager to serve Immortan Joe and get witnessed all shiny and chrome into Valhalla.
There's also the problem of how the German Reich dealt with a population implosion. Himmler started his master-race program, arresting and detaining German women for a breeding program. It was highlighted recently in an article about the historical that inspired Margaret Atwood for the atrocities of Gilead in A Handmaid's Tale We're already seeing interest in rolling back women's rights and women's personhood here in the US.
Then you don't understand the complex reality in favor of a simplistic view. If that's what you need to do to cope in what is, granted, a terrifying reality, then you do you. But I cannot follow. Do what you will.
Arizona's Attorney General, Kris Mayes, filed two lawsuits against Amazon on Wednesday for allegedly engaging in deceptive business practices and maintaining monopoly status. The first lawsuit accuses the company of using dark patterns to keep users from canceling their Amazon Prime subscriptions, violating Arizona's Consumer...
I thought it was dark as in manipulation that isn't readily visible. For instance, a micro-transaction for a character reskin accompanied by default skins being crap. In Watchdogs Legion all the Londoners you could recruit generally had poor fashion, then money was scant and clothes were super expensive (but you could by more money with micro-transctions).
In one of the Space Quest series, as a joke (black humor in theme with the series) whenever an airlock interface was opened, the mouse cursor started on the Open Outer Door button, so an accidental double-tap was deadly, so dark patterns were known about in the 1990s, though not yet given a name.
Click-wrapped TOS and contracts for software and services were one such strategem, though we're more aware of it today, and more judges are willing to reject contracts and TOS that didn't include a clear, announced disclosure of their odious terms.
When you rule, you get to pick what qualities have merit, which is how we end up of administrations of The Master Race or lispy Spaniards, or ruthlesd billionaires.
We're still trying to figure out how to get to government tha implements public-serving ideas.
Due to its mode of operation, the court considered the software to be “specifically intended for criminals”
Crime is an action a state doesn't like, not necessarily wrong or evil, but serves interests other than the state. If the state has to authorize everything, then the state is favoring dominance over governance.
When the state has to monitor all transactions it is tyranny.
I've observed if I say nothing (because I simply don't know how to react), opinionated people think you agree with them, which I don't. I don't care....
I'm very tempted to choose a brain worm of your own and push that agenda at him to assert dominance, but that's because I can be a passive-aggressive fuck if I feel someone is being overly aggressive.
Judgemental religious folk can bring out the Azathoth Hypothesis in me.
The fifth one was written while Douglas Adams was super depressed, so yeah, it's a bit more grim than the others.
The initial trilogy were written after the radio show which was itself written on the fly, hence the continuous cliffhangers and deus-ex-machina turns of fate.
This makes a strong case on the discovery side of the discovery vs. invention controversy.
Ironically, my dad idolized Pythagoras and the notion of discovering a scientific fundamental to be remembered for thousands of years, for which the secret is not to actually do science, but raise a cult of scientists who attribute their inventions to you. Like Thomas Edison.
Costco for a while sold large ice cream bars from their cantina. While not proportionately larger they did help with the disappointment I felt going to DQ decades later to notice the cone was much smaller than the last time.
Wait, other Gen Xers and Millennials don't fear becoming homeless?
I have a lot of friends who were homeless at least once during life, and all the others have been on the verge of homelessness. Is this atypical in the United States?
Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? ( lemmy.world )
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adherence to the rule is the 4th law of robotics ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Amer(ule)ica ( files.catbox.moe )
don't get a dog rule ( lemmy.world )
cow's rule ( lemmy.world )
NCD Child-rearing ( lemmy.world )
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We may clown on him a lot but it's genuinely quite dystopian how much power Elon Musk has. ( lemmy.world )
Blade Runner concept art- Syd Mead, gauche on board (1982) ( lemmy.world )
Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads ( www.techradar.com )
Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....
Can't find good goons these days... rule ( lemmy.ca )
The Vatican declares that it can no longer confirm the supernatural... but you can worship it anyway. ( apnews.com )
The new norms reframe the Catholic Church’s evaluation process by essentially taking off the table whether church authorities will declare a particular vision, stigmata or other seemingly divinely inspired event supernatural....
Meet Max, the cat receiving an (honorary) doctorate from Vermont State University this weekend ( www.vermontpublic.org )
For you MST3K fans, this proves that cats are superior to Nick. Even cats get into Castleton.
Rule ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
New addition, not sure on name yet... ( lemmy.world )
New kitten in the family, 2 months old. Not sure on a name yet....
"I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded ( www.vox.com )
I just wanna rule to him ( lemmy.world )
Is it a sweatshirt or a jacket? ( lemmy.world )
I have always called a light top with a full zipper to be a jacket, however the people I'm surrounded by insist on calling it a sweatshirt. I'm prepared to be wrong, just wondering if I'm the only one.
Has anyone else noticed a large influx of Trolls lately?
This isn't about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That's pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I'm also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion....
Pro Tip: Putting spaghetti in your ammo makes for a great emergency snack ( sh.itjust.works )
BBC thinks we might as well get comfortable, fellow Zoomers. ( lemmy.world )
Child care costs more than a mortgage payment or rent almost everywhere in the U.S.: ‘There is no escaping it’ ( www.marketwatch.com )
Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” ( www.theverge.com )
Arizona's Attorney General, Kris Mayes, filed two lawsuits against Amazon on Wednesday for allegedly engaging in deceptive business practices and maintaining monopoly status. The first lawsuit accuses the company of using dark patterns to keep users from canceling their Amazon Prime subscriptions, violating Arizona's Consumer...
xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths ( imgs.xkcd.com )
https://xkcd.com/2933...
Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash ( www.patrick-breyer.de )
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I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about?
I've observed if I say nothing (because I simply don't know how to react), opinionated people think you agree with them, which I don't. I don't care....
Caviar ( lemmyf.uk )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15411587...
Device rule ( i.ibb.co )
Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras ( www.iflscience.com )
The Little Mermaid- Edvard Eriksen, bronze statue (1913) ( lemmy.world )
Teamwork ( lemmy.world )
Makes the Dreamwork
braver than any marine ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
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rule of cool ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Nathan Pyle is always right
Mental health rule ( discuss.tchncs.de )
cheugy af ( sh.itjust.works )
Do your sleep dreams include mobile phones?
If a mobile (cell, handy) phone is part of your life, do your dreams include reference to it?...
The cost-of-living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming homeless ( fortune.com )