I remember the video nasties of the 90s were 'far from imaginary dangers' for kids, before that it was rock music that the data was screaming at us about. Maybe social media does hold an actual danger this time, but we…
The rebel is just a subset of the second type, and an effective subset if you look at history. The evil is just a subset of the first type, abuse and use are functionally the same action within a poorly or properly…
Vitamin D excess can lower blood levels of vitamin K2, reducing bone development. Not sure if the levels would be high enough for this (difficult to find safe numbers for in utero), but the side effects, joint pains,…
Its exactly the same, the universe is functionally a computing device, it is based on data and causality. Its complex but our brains do not work deeper than the neuron and so can be modeled in other computing devices…
>As long as we have practically no idea how qualia arise Qualia or the feeling of consciousness arises from our evolved instinct and ability to personify other humans; turned inward. There is a great amount of evidence…
I was actually thinking of how tired i was talking to real people and how refreshing AI was to talk something through with. Most conversations with people, that center around something complicated or emotional are…
There is nothing that we know of in carbon based structures that violates universal causality, even in quantum scales where causality becomes more vague it is replaced by a measurable randomness. So there should be no…
The answer to this is Life Expectancy; Ambulance Drivers: The mean age at death is approximately 64.2 years. Taxi Drivers: The mean age at death is approximately 67.8 years. General Population: in the same dataset, life…
Double jeopardy was abolished by Blair in the Criminal Justice Act 2003, Scotland abolished it as well a bit later in Double Jeopardy Act 2011. However i doubt it would apply even if we had it as the wording in Section…
Its five years with no limitations, so when you are due to be released; Whats your password? Another five years... Its such a poorly worded law you could literally spend your life in prison for forgetting your password.…
How do the informed measure intelligence? I know I'm too late to ask this question, But I suspect its either; Feelings and intuitions, which is just a primitive IQ test. Or some kind of aptitude test, which is just a…
Humans are large language models. Maybe the term language is being used a bit liberally here but we basically function in the same way, with the exception of the spacial aspect of our training data. If this hurts your…
That is really interesting; Though i suspect its just a effect of differing training data, humans are to a larger degree trained on spacial data, while LLMs are trained to a larger degree on raw information and text.…
The same place as humans do, other humans.
Having listened to some the new AI generated songs on utube, looks like they might be better at being sensitive humans than we are as well..
>ChatGPT (o3): Scored 136 on the Mensa Norway IQ test in April 2025 If you don't want to believe it, you need to change the goal posts; Create a test for intelligence that we can pass better than AI.. since AI is also…
> ChatGPT (o3): Scored 136 on the Mensa Norway test in April 2025 So yes, most people are right in that assumption, at least by the metric of how we generally measure intelligence.
>Huh https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5lxg2l0lqo >I’m sorry, what? Take the online protection act for an example, Nigel Farage though it went too far, Keir Starmer wanted to include a ban on VPNs... >it is? If you…
>the most authoritarian country in the West Australia and the US are more authoritarian in specific areas e.g. censorship and taxation respectively.. but overall, yes, the UK is worse. >British people are the most…
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> Better coolants The Montreal protocol (1987) put us back into the dark ages with coolants for a while (both with CFC ban and later phase outs of HFCs). I suspect if you tested a refrigerator from 40 years ago they…
The Terrorism Act 2000 was a knee-jerk reaction to the Good Friday agreement and used to make association a criminal offense.
*irrelevant, not irreverent. ffs. (meaning people can be charged with a crime and only a fictional 'reasonable' person suffering offense or insult)
>In the UK political expression of free speech is protected by the ECHR, which overrides both those acts This is categorically untrue. Not only is the ECHR worded specifically to allow individual countries to curtail…
Public Order Act 1986 "insulting words or behavior that cause distress to others" Malicious Communications Act 1988 (Section 1): "Outlaws sending messages, electronic or otherwise, with the intent to cause distress, or…
I remember the video nasties of the 90s were 'far from imaginary dangers' for kids, before that it was rock music that the data was screaming at us about. Maybe social media does hold an actual danger this time, but we…
The rebel is just a subset of the second type, and an effective subset if you look at history. The evil is just a subset of the first type, abuse and use are functionally the same action within a poorly or properly…
Vitamin D excess can lower blood levels of vitamin K2, reducing bone development. Not sure if the levels would be high enough for this (difficult to find safe numbers for in utero), but the side effects, joint pains,…
Its exactly the same, the universe is functionally a computing device, it is based on data and causality. Its complex but our brains do not work deeper than the neuron and so can be modeled in other computing devices…
>As long as we have practically no idea how qualia arise Qualia or the feeling of consciousness arises from our evolved instinct and ability to personify other humans; turned inward. There is a great amount of evidence…
I was actually thinking of how tired i was talking to real people and how refreshing AI was to talk something through with. Most conversations with people, that center around something complicated or emotional are…
There is nothing that we know of in carbon based structures that violates universal causality, even in quantum scales where causality becomes more vague it is replaced by a measurable randomness. So there should be no…
The answer to this is Life Expectancy; Ambulance Drivers: The mean age at death is approximately 64.2 years. Taxi Drivers: The mean age at death is approximately 67.8 years. General Population: in the same dataset, life…
Double jeopardy was abolished by Blair in the Criminal Justice Act 2003, Scotland abolished it as well a bit later in Double Jeopardy Act 2011. However i doubt it would apply even if we had it as the wording in Section…
Its five years with no limitations, so when you are due to be released; Whats your password? Another five years... Its such a poorly worded law you could literally spend your life in prison for forgetting your password.…
How do the informed measure intelligence? I know I'm too late to ask this question, But I suspect its either; Feelings and intuitions, which is just a primitive IQ test. Or some kind of aptitude test, which is just a…
Humans are large language models. Maybe the term language is being used a bit liberally here but we basically function in the same way, with the exception of the spacial aspect of our training data. If this hurts your…
That is really interesting; Though i suspect its just a effect of differing training data, humans are to a larger degree trained on spacial data, while LLMs are trained to a larger degree on raw information and text.…
The same place as humans do, other humans.
Having listened to some the new AI generated songs on utube, looks like they might be better at being sensitive humans than we are as well..
>ChatGPT (o3): Scored 136 on the Mensa Norway IQ test in April 2025 If you don't want to believe it, you need to change the goal posts; Create a test for intelligence that we can pass better than AI.. since AI is also…
> ChatGPT (o3): Scored 136 on the Mensa Norway test in April 2025 So yes, most people are right in that assumption, at least by the metric of how we generally measure intelligence.
>Huh https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5lxg2l0lqo >I’m sorry, what? Take the online protection act for an example, Nigel Farage though it went too far, Keir Starmer wanted to include a ban on VPNs... >it is? If you…
>the most authoritarian country in the West Australia and the US are more authoritarian in specific areas e.g. censorship and taxation respectively.. but overall, yes, the UK is worse. >British people are the most…
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> Better coolants The Montreal protocol (1987) put us back into the dark ages with coolants for a while (both with CFC ban and later phase outs of HFCs). I suspect if you tested a refrigerator from 40 years ago they…
The Terrorism Act 2000 was a knee-jerk reaction to the Good Friday agreement and used to make association a criminal offense.
*irrelevant, not irreverent. ffs. (meaning people can be charged with a crime and only a fictional 'reasonable' person suffering offense or insult)
>In the UK political expression of free speech is protected by the ECHR, which overrides both those acts This is categorically untrue. Not only is the ECHR worded specifically to allow individual countries to curtail…
Public Order Act 1986 "insulting words or behavior that cause distress to others" Malicious Communications Act 1988 (Section 1): "Outlaws sending messages, electronic or otherwise, with the intent to cause distress, or…