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So for bringing the Dead back to life, you pretty much have to start with Jerry, right? Actually he was cremated, unfortunately 
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-tech-bubble-popping-ping-pong-offers-an-answer-1462286089?mod=trending_now_3#:lWGT6A-Eq3_gxwquote:The table-tennis indicator is a peek into Silicon Valley culture, in which the right to play ping pong on the job is sacrosanct.
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It's for people with bum brainstems. It won't work but someday stuff like that will. We'll probably see spinal cord fixes first, though.
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mitztronic posted:http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-tech-bubble-popping-ping-pong-offers-an-answer-1462286089?mod=trending_now_3#:lWGT6A-Eq3_gxw quote:“You could probably track Odwalla juices,” says venture capitalist Joseph Floyd, referring to the drink ubiquitous in tech workplaces.
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At a company I worked for they stupidly put the ping pong table on the outdoor patio, which lead to a lot of lost balls and a complaint from the downstairs neighbors.
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Wait… are ping-pong tables a good or a bad sign?
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May 5, 2016 02:14
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Genius. I bet companies that offer huge bonuses are more profitable than companies that don't. Therefore,
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My new startup, Cover!Up, assists you in the vital everyday task of causing police officers to shoot civilians.
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Vape Bag posted:Wait… are ping-pong tables a good or a bad sign?
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May 5, 2016 03:09
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Ping pong tables are fine, even my dad's boring old IC design company had one.
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Turtle Sandbox posted:How long until investors realize they probably wont make an actual zombie and it costs alot of money to let people gently caress around with brains all day. All the VCs and techlords are terrified of death. Until the bubble bursts, any and all wacky longevity/immortality/life extension ideas are going to get some funding.
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Peztopiary posted:All the VCs and techlords are terrified of death. Until the bubble bursts, any and all wacky longevity/immortality/life extension ideas are going to get some funding. Yep. Also, the singularity and transhumanism are basically religions among a lot of that crowd.
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e_angst posted:Yep. Also, the singularity and transhumanism are basically religions among a lot of that crowd. Don't forget that you HAVE to fund the AI research programs or an AI from the future that is theoretically simulating our reality right now could torture you horribly for all eternity
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MikeCrotch posted:Don't forget that you HAVE to fund the AI research programs or an AI from the future that is theoretically simulating our reality right now could torture you horribly for all eternity Eternity is a pretty long time. I'm sure I'd get used to it. Check and mate, AI.  ...wait I like to program AI. I'm probably safe.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Eternity is a pretty long time. I'm sure I'd get used to it. But are you working on the AI as hard as you could be? Are you devoting all your spare money to the development of the AI? If not, the AI will torture simulated you. Stop posting. Program more, meatbag. God, reading the original basilisk post, I forget how completely crazy these people are.
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Not really a "bubble bursting" story but XFund is having a real housewives style meltdown. http://fortune.com/2016/05/04/harvard-vc-fund-smoke/ edit: this one is maybe a little juicier http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/technology/infighting-threatens-to-fell-a-venture-capital-firm.html pangstrom fucked around with this message at 15:43 on May 5, 2016 |
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MikeCrotch posted:Don't forget that you HAVE to fund the AI research programs or an AI from the future that is theoretically simulating our reality right now could torture you horribly for all eternity I've never understood this. Why would an AI, a machine entity of perfect logic, waste resources on that? It says more about the believers' own pettiness than anything.
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Boxman posted:But are you working on the AI as hard as you could be? Are you devoting all your spare money to the development of the AI? If not, the AI will torture simulated you. If the AI wanted me to, it'd given me the near infinite funds it's given others so it must not want me to!
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Boxman posted:But are you working on the AI as hard as you could be? Are you devoting all your spare money to the development of the AI? If not, the AI will torture simulated you. If the AI wanted me to work full time on it it would have gone back before I was born and deleted video games and booze. The continued existence of video games and booze tells me that the AI wants me to consume them.
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Unguided posted:I've never understood this. Why would an AI, a machine entity of perfect logic, waste resources on that? It says more about the believers' own pettiness than anything. Existential crises are hard to deal with, doubly so when you're used to having close to supreme power over all you survey. Watching techbros discover Gnosticism is kind of hilarious. It would be more so if they weren't setting so much money on fire instead of funding things that are actually useful.
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Unguided posted:I've never understood this. Why would an AI, a machine entity of perfect logic, waste resources on that? It says more about the believers' own pettiness than anything. There's no reason that a strong AI/AL needs to be any more purely logical or unemotional than humans. We're deterministic machines too, basically.
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If the AI exists and has enough power to do all of that, it has enough power to simply manipulate events to create itself as fast as possible. Furthermore these fuckers have no idea how to actually create said ai as fast as possible. Me typing on this forum might be accelerating its existence or might not, I have no way of determining what will or will not lead to said ai so I might as well do what I think is best and hope it all works out.
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That's not as fun. How would that distract from their hollow Silicon Valley lives?
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AtomikKrab posted:If the AI exists and has enough power to do all of that, it has enough power to simply manipulate events to create itself as fast as possible. Furthermore these fuckers have no idea how to actually create said ai as fast as possible. Me typing on this forum might be accelerating its existence or might not, I have no way of determining what will or will not lead to said ai so I might as well do what I think is best and hope it all works out. Shitposting is actually the code that the cosmic AI runs on.
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Dirk the Average posted:Shitposting is actually the code that the cosmic AI runs on. Never not  Your future avatar in the Singularity depends on it!
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Creating AI isn't some arcane summoning spell that requires all the winds in the Pacific to blow in the same direction while people in every time zone shout words without vowels. It's programming and math, experimentation and testing.
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Unguided posted:I've never understood this. Why would an AI, a machine entity of perfect logic, waste resources on that? It says more about the believers' own pettiness than anything. It requires you to believe/take for granted a few weird premises everyone on that forum takes for granted, which range from "iffy" to "batshit insane." It starts with stuff like "singularity happens," and "hyper intelligent AI takes over," then you need to accept a weird theory about energy and sub atomic particles potentially allowing future states to influence past states is true and also applies to an actor in the future using knowledge of events/risks and probability to bargain with a past actor. So "the AI tortures simulated/future you because it knows that current you knows that's a risk if you don't work hard enough to create the AI." The most disturbing part is this isn't really much of a derail since google and more than a few others have already thrown mad unicorn money at the guy who runs that forum. He of course agreed the basilisk argument was dumb and tried to delete it. Not because it was pointless and folks were getting too worked up over it, but because he 'solved' the problem.  : "The AI should know I don't negotiate with terrorists," and "Uh, no actually a benevolent AI won't do that." When one of the few actual interesting and relevant parts of the thought experiment is it is a benevolent AI in that scenario. It's not torturing you out of malice, it's done a cost benefit analysis and deciding that saving X number of lives by starting the singularity earlier is worth the simulated pain used to influence past you. The same way smartcars would have to deal with hitting a person in the middle of the road vs swerving into oncoming traffic or off the road.
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Subjunctive posted:Creating AI isn't some arcane summoning spell that requires all the winds in the Pacific to blow in the same direction while people in every time zone shout words without vowels. It's programming and math, experimentation and testing.  The AI will see your post and realize you are useful!
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Subjunctive posted:There's no reason that a strong AI/AL needs to be any more purely logical or unemotional than humans. We're deterministic machines too, basically. Our own emotions, goals and desires are the result of millions of years of evolution. Either the human creators deliberately include them or come up with some process to develop them or they won't be there in the AI. At the least motions are there own development that won't be emergent automatically from intelligence.
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Unguided posted:
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ComradeCosmobot posted:I don't think anyone has brought up one consultant company's idea to encourage startups to commodify sleep. I like how this "branding group" (whatever the hell that means) is named after the stupor you find yourself in if you take too much ketamine. Genius marketing stunt for Casper, their target demo will eat that poo poo up.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:I don't think anyone has brought up one consultant company's idea to encourage startups to commodify sleep.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:I don't think anyone has brought up one consultant company's idea to encourage startups to commodify sleep. So should we kill these smarmy shits now or wait for them to build the abomination first?
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Unguided posted:I've never understood this. Why would an AI, a machine entity of perfect logic, waste resources on that? It says more about the believers' own pettiness than anything. The psychotic vindictive poo poo heads at LW would pettily destroy anyone who slighted or rejected them given omnipotence. They believe they are the ones who will bring about the singularity and, as a result, any AI they create would be as petty and vindictive as they are.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:I don't think anyone has brought up one consultant company's idea to encourage startups to commodify sleep. This has to be a joke.
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AtomikKrab posted:If the AI exists and has enough power to do all of that, it has enough power to simply manipulate events to create itself as fast as possible. Furthermore these fuckers have no idea how to actually create said ai as fast as possible. Me typing on this forum might be accelerating its existence or might not, I have no way of determining what will or will not lead to said ai so I might as well do what I think is best and hope it all works out. Sounds more like a Flying Spaghetti Monster than an AI.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:This has to be a joke. It's an art group that from the outside looks exactly like what it claims to be mimicking.
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redscare posted:I like how this "branding group" (whatever the hell that means) is named after the stupor you find yourself in if you take too much ketamine. Genius marketing stunt for Casper, their target demo will eat that poo poo up. Stupor is putting it mildly. It's a nightmarish state with extreme disassociation. Exactly the what I mentally associate with restful nights.
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