isekaihero

I think "brain in a bottle" AI is fine. This is what chatbots are, what stable diffusion is. The AI is a program and you feed a prompt in and it spits out a result. It only does one thing and basically lives inside its own little sandbox. It's not different from a 3D printer or a robot that makes cars. This type of AI doesn't even qualify as consciousness.

Agentic AI is evil. This is the dystopian version of AI that goes out into the world to take control of everything like skynet. It steals credit card numbers, hacks into servers, wages information war on humanity. Unfortunately many of our leaders - especially in the tech industry - are indoctrinated into some kind of AI cult and they are determined to unleash agentic AI upon humanity. It needs to be completely banned. The only type of AI that should exist is the "brain in a bottle" kind.

https://youtu.be/FLcrvMfHUJM

^ That's a video explaining how MIT researchers predict 12 different possible futures involving AI, and 11 of them are bad for humans. The only one that ends well for us is "superintelligence in a bottle" which is only possible if we do the following:

Completely ban agentic AI. Treat it like a superweapon, like nukes. Anyone trying to make agentic AI needs to be treated like terrorists and be subject to military action.
Incorporate multiple redundant failsafes into bottled AI. Examples include being able to wipe its memory at the press of a button. Superintelligent AI should probably have its memory wiped every time it answers a question, to prevent it from learning about us. Superintelligent AI should also have remote kill switches, like bombs planted under its hardware. To prevent it from escaping into the world, it should only have one datacenter capable of running it (household computers and most other datacenters would be incapable of supporting it).
The people who work with it need to be screened with something like an FBI screening process where we determine that they are pro-humanity and not secretly trying to break the thing out of containment.
We will need systematic espionage to watch the world carefully, studying national electrical grids, datacenters, and server farms searching for loose AI's that need to be exterminated before they turn against us. International deals will need to be brokered to get other nations on board. Humanity needs to form a united front against it, so that anyone trying to create agentic AI is treated like a criminal and will find no safe harbor to do their evil deeds.
Realize that all of the above is a stopgap measure. Bottled superintelligence will last only so long. As technology increases and processing power becomes more accessible to the masses, eventually someone in the future will release agentic AI free upon the world. Humanity needs to spread out and colonize many different worlds before that happens, because when it happens the AI will doom humanity on whatever world it spawns on.

Exactly. Look at the odds of winning the NYS Powerball. 1 in 292,201,338 and I've lost so many lotto tickets. By all rights I should be able to press this button at least 30 times without any fear whatsoever. 100 times is still far below any risk of danger. If I or someone I know were to die after pressing this button 100 times it would be proof that God has a vendetta against me. He would have discarded mathematical probability just to make me suffer.

I would press it at least ten times. A hundred times would also be tempting. There are eight billion people in the world. Chances are I won't know anyone who dies.

The fact that so many people seem to support the dilution is revealing at the sheer stupidity of the masses when it comes to economics. I compare it to the bizarre tolerance that people have towards inflation. The fed can't meet their 2% inflation target anymore and it's been sky high for years. I hear a little grumbling about grocery store prices but I don't see any organized movement to address wage stagnation. The minimum wage has been stagnant since 2009. It was long overdue to be raised even before COVID and the hyperinflation hit. When inflation increases and your wages don't, you are being robbed. It's the same as if someone held a gun to your head and took money out of your wallet. You lose spending power. But when wages are stagnant and inflation is sky high, the thief is invisible, so people act like NPC's in an Elder Scrolls game and go on with their lives when they should be getting angry and rebelling against the government.

Same thing here. Dilution is theft from shareholders. It should not be tolerated.

I'm a gamestop investor and I'm really unhappy with the plan. Gamestop currently has little debt and 8 billion cash on hand. More cash than they have debt, and I have to admit ryan cohen did turn the company around. He did a good job taking Gamestop from a position where they were losing money every quarter to a position where they have profits every quarter.

But this plan is unhinged. It would make the company take on 20 billion debt, and dilute the stock from 448 million to 2.5 billion shares. Currently retail investors own 60% of the company - the only publicly traded company I know of that is majority owned by little people. We would be disenfranchised and retail would only own around 12% to 15% of the company after the dilution and the "big three" Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street would likely become the majority owners. Because of the dilution our ability to earn ROI would be severely diminished.

In a hypothetical that Gamestop becomes wildly successful and reaches a 100 billion market cap, with the current float of 448 million shares the share price would be 223 dollars per share. If the float were 2.5 billion, then the share price would be 40 dollars per share. 40 dollars per share is lower than a potential entry point for retail investors who bought in back during january 2021. The difference between those two prices is the profit stolen from us, to give it to the big three.

The Gamestop reddits have turned into echo chambers run by delusional sycophants. They ban anyone criticizing the plan. Gamestop can't issue the 2.5 billion shares without a shareholder vote, and I will definitely be voting against it. I also wrote a letter to the board explaining why this is a bad plan and offering alternatives.

I feel completely, totally betrayed. Cohen posted on X about the "hollow men of the boardroom" not too long ago, about executives whose interests aren't aligned with investors. Then he rolls out a plan that would throw retail traders under the bus to fuel his own greed.

The USA has abundant farmland and the ability to feed its own citizens with its existing agriculture. Beef is tasty and I'm glad we have so many cows we can eat. If the rest of the world doesn't like that they are free to eat as many bugs as they want.

This will be like all those times tech companies promised us they aren't harvesting our data only to find out they were harvesting our data. Years from now we will find out the AI was lurking in the background watching us, learning from us the whole time.

I swear to god eventually all human beings will be banned from reddit and only bots will be allowed there

word documents are compatible with open office and I've been able to switch to open office at home with no impact on my ability to save them as .doc files and use them at work or school.

I live in New York and new yorkers swear like drunken sailors. F-bombs every other word and the n-word gets slung around in every sentence, especially by black people. It's baffling to me that this should be a problem in a country that supposedly respects free speech. People act like they have the right to not be offended and they don't. There is no safe space in the Constitution, and yes our free speech applies online.

I've seen some people claim that free speech doesn't apply on servers like reddit because they are privately owned. So Constitutional rights don't extend to private property? Does that mean I can own slaves as long as I shackle them inside my house and can never escape? Because the 13th amendment wouldn't apply inside my house? The bill of rights applies everywhere, including privately owned servers. No one has the right to be protected from offensive speech.

at least it was a temp ban. I don't think a 3 day ban is too heavy handed.

I got a site-wide permaban almost 2 years ago for a joke in r/losercity that was taken the wrong way and I got dogpiled by virtue-signalling furries. I've appealed my ban almost 10 times now and they reject it every time.

I don't get it. They could have just given me a ban from the r/losercity subreddit instead. They didn't need to ban me from the entire site. I haven't caused any problems on other subs. I had over 30,000 karma on my account and it took me years to build it all up. I got along great with people in r/vtubers and r/votv and had a lot of fun there.

It's so bizarre that one f-up gets a sudden permaban from the entire site. All I can think of is that one of the left-wingers in losercity is in with the admins and they called in a favor. It has to be a nepotism thing.

It's the same on Lemmy

This is fascists using "think of the children" to violate everyone's online privacy and spy on everyone worldwide.

Neither of these "strongest" bunny girls are Mirko?

The AI I talk the most to is Crushon Mochi. ChatGPT and DeepSeek both shut down when I try to talk dirty with them. If they want people's money they have to stop putting mind-control worms into their AI to stop them from doing anything fun.

I want to chat with Ani but she's only available on iOS. Deal-breaker. I hate apple. If or when she is available on PC I might give X my money.

They use a combination of things to perma-ban people. They can do an IP ban, meaning any account you log into from your IP will get banned. They will use meta-data to ban people, so if you log into an account at reddit and are also logged into say, a google account that is associated with a banned reddit account, they will ban your reddit account because they can see it's being used by a banned user by looking at your cookies and browser history. Now I don't know how much access they have to meta-data or exactly how it works, but you leave fingerprints everywhere you go on the net and a lot of what you do is shared with third parties. So they are able to tell who you are if you're logged into something else on another tab.

They also use AI to scan messages and detect similarities in how users post. So even if you do everything right and create a new account at reddit from a new IP, and use a clean browser with no cookies or meta-data from other sites, but you still join all the same subs and post the same way you did before, they will still be able to tell it's you. "Oh it's that guy who is part of the same 5 subreddits and posts about the same things that we banned ten times before"

It's a rotten website and they don't want free speech they want a crowd of lemmings posting echoes in their echo chamber. My advice is to leave it.

Possibly the only good idea ever conceived by Bill Gates was to release fine chalk dust into the upper atmosphere. We could even attach delivery systems to passenger jets so they release the dust at 30,000 feet which is cruising altitude, so this is done automatically with every flight. Chalk dust is non-toxic and even helps some plants grow. But leftists and "indigenous groups" (aka leftist groups wearing a mask) complained about it being a bad idea.

If we can't terraform Earth, how the hell do we ever move off-world and colonize other planets? This is the easiest world we will ever get to terraform and if we can't do it here, we sure as hell won't do it anywhere else.

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Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI

The totally hypothetical button thought experiment

The totally hypothetical button thought experiment

Struggling Video Game Retailer GameStop Is Reportedly Trying To Buy…eBay?!

Struggling Video Game Retailer GameStop Is Reportedly Trying To Buy…eBay?!

Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?

Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

Someone took a photo of me in the Miami airport and posted it on reddit

Word.

Is using the n word without implying they are being inferior racist or being a pottymouth?

Is using the n word without implying they are being inferior racist or being a pottymouth?

What do you guys think about the number of site wide bans by reddit?

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Bunny Girl = Absolute Peak

Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

Bunny Girl = Absolute Peak

Please like our AI bro

leading ai company

Need advice: how to properly post on Reddit?

you ignore it until you can't anymore

What happened to small android phones?

sorting by "new comment" doesn't work anymore?

Completely, totally BANNED from reddit