Came here to say this. As much as I don’t like china, there is really nothing to see (apart from the source, that’s for everybody to see).

Sure, the package managers of other languages are super safe

Please hand over your driving license

Fuck I’m reevaluating my life choices in terms of browsers. I assumed the situation of firefox is what it is because mozilla is morally superior and doesn’t compromise. It now seems like it’s not morally superior at all, so the reason for the current situation of firefox must be just sheer incompetence.

Dammit.

I also think the same, I’m afraid we live in a tech-savvy bubble

First of all thank you, I wasn’t aware of the concept of acausal trade, and I’ll look more into it. Very interesting.

I’m not sure we are discussing the same aspect of this mind experiment, and in particular the aspect of it that i find lovecraftian is that you may already be in the simulation right now. This makes the specific circumstances of our world, physics, and technology level irrelevant, as they would just be a solipsistic setup to test you on some aspect of your morality. The threat of eternal torture, on the other hand, would only apply to you if you were the real version of you, as that’s who the basilisk is actually dealing with. This works because you don’t know what of the two situations is your current one.

The basilisk is trying to estimate the future behaviour of real you on the basis of the behaviour of the model he has created of you.

In this scenario you can think of me as a pseudopod of the basilisk that is informing you of the details of the stipulation by means of this post.

Of course, if you are the real version of you the basilisk would need to be something that can be created in this reality, which i think is only impossible with our current approach to ML and AI, but is otherwise within our grasp given the computational power we have available. But if you are a fake version of you the real world could be radically different from ours and maybe in that world P=NP.

Yeah that should be called KAPUTalism

In this case this wouldn’t apply, as you would never be simulated as (say) a kid in the middle ages, just as a version of yourself in the timeframe leading to the creation of the basilisk. You should be one of the persons alive when the basilisk arises to be of any use to it. Only those would need to be tested.

I feel like abdul alhazred explaining these things to people while being aware of the risks :)

AI is an umbrella term, it’s not necessarily less than ASI or AGI but can include them

but not as easily dismissable

And those that didn’t see a quaternary joke coming

And those that didn’t see a quinary joke coming

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“Where’s the fucking router”

A big step in the right direction

Economic freedom in this example is pure nonsense. I don’t want the freedom to overpay for something. The price point is also completely unreasonable. There are alternatives that could be implemented, like setting limits. Your example has a clear goal of promoting a certain world view that the existence of slavery is what makes us free. If that’s not a paradox a don’t know what a paradox is.

Oh so that’s why he was defending bitcoin the other day

Not really. I can undersgand licensing but at this point it’s become a distopian practice completely separated from the basic need to monetize the content an make a profit. That’s why those companies become such gargantuans monsters.

To be fairer nobody asked them to produce content. They decided to create it because it’s cheaper that licensing the actual good stuff.

But it’s very interesting to think where we would be technologically and socially if humans weren’t such assholes

1. Covid has more than 10x the mortality rate of common flu
2. even without vaccine you still have an immune system, but not as ready against covid, and you spread it for a longer period which can be fatal for those around you, especially older people or people with a bad immune system

I don’t get what you people have against vaccines. They saved millions of lives over the years and the causation is clear beyond any doubt.

You are te proof that the education system sucks.

Lol, more a hope than a plan