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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

According to one story at least, Wigner eventually concluded that if you take some ideas that physicists widely hold about quantum mechanics as postulates and follow them through to their logical conclusion, then you must conclude that there is a special role for conscious observers. But he took that as a reason to question those assumptions.

(That story comes from Leslie Ballentine reporting a conversation with Wigner in the course of promoting an ensemble interpretation of QM.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

There are some interesting ideas in that general direction (wrapping Bell inequalities within different new types of thought experiment, etc.), but some of the people involved have done rather a lot of overselling, and now bringing in talk of "AI" just obscures the whole situation. Which was already obscure enough.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fetish content for the world's most divorced man.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Colonizer Clippy

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (4 children)

"The time has come to stand up for Little Tech" —venture capital firm with $42 billion in assets under management

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I had noticed the user ID and figured that they were sequentially-assigned integers, but I hadn't bothered to check what the numbers had gotten up to. I'm seeing a 930, an 1175, a 2327.... So, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Babel-17 came out in 1966, and its vision of the future was that a good ship's captain knows how to complete a poly triad and you can't leave Earth without a full crew including three ghosts and a furry.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The document describes a project that uses Strawberry models with the aim of enabling the company’s AI to not just generate answers to queries but to plan ahead enough to navigate the internet autonomously

Navigate the Internet that their software has already filled with shit. And the point of that would be...?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

My condolences.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The Wikipedia editors who hang out here might thank you for calling to their attention pages that clearly need to be fixed, since they cite non-peer-reviewed preprints on the arXiv, the shit journal Entropy, and the fucking LessWrong blog.

Me, I'm going to block you anyway. Bye!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I had some good physics conversations on g+. Slivers of memory from happier times....

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