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What if My AI is Manic Depressive
My AI Build Project Gets Me Worried In addition to a lot of the stuff I have been working on as I continue my at home AI build I have been doing a lot of worrying. The number of things that could go horribly wrong seem to be staggeringly high and there is no historical data on which to judge the probabilities of such things happening, nor are there even any really solid theoretical underpinnings on which to hang my hat so to speak. As I worked through my list of concerns in my mind I started to feel a bit depressed. As I started to feel depressed I started to think about another interesting and potentially terrifying possibility for my AI, What if it is “born” or later becomes “mentally” ill?
By Everyday Junglist4 years ago in Futurism
How To Build an AI
First Comes the Background and Introduction Part I don’t spend nearly as much time as I probably should reading people’s comments. To be honest it is mostly because I have a very fragile ego. The slightest criticism can ruin my night and possibly my entire week if it hits the mark a little too close for comfort. When I do work up the nerve to have a peek I am usually rewarded as mostly the people who do take the time to read and comment are thoughtful and intelligent and often make some really brilliant points, sometimes this happens even after they lay into me for wasting five minutes of their life with a post or two or three they found most definitely not to their liking. Holy run-on batman! Is that really a grammatically sound sentence? I mean look how long it is, try and diagram that sucker, I dare you.
By Everyday Junglist4 years ago in Futurism
Here’s Why The Unexamined Life is Worth Living
The widely known ancient Greek philosopher Socrates once said: “the unexamined life is not worth living for men.” Notice that the philosopher was restricting this to men; in fact, the ancient Greek society was too sexist at the time, so much that women had a status slightly higher than that of slaves.
By Julian Diep4 years ago in Futurism
Space Maestro . Top Story - August 2021.
Author's note: Space Maestro takes place on the colonization spacecraft The Giant Leap, introduced in Space Diner Proposal and referenced in Alien Honeymoon and Big Earth Journals. You are invited to acquaint yourself with the craft and some of the characters by reading those stories here on Vocal:
By Ben Waggoner4 years ago in Futurism
The Trans-Atlantic Snow Mobile
Luke pulled his scarf tighter around his mouth, hiding from the bitterly cold wind that sought to blast his face and seep away his warmth, telling him to go back from whence he came. Gripping his snowmobile with a death-like vice, he looked back to check on his precious cargo of fresh produce, grown in one of the pitiful few areas that remained arable in the whole earth.
By Jesse Leung5 years ago in Futurism
