No matter how you hang your ears, there’s a background hum to the world right now that’s hard to ignore.
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Eugoogleogy
Trust is a mountaineer’s rope made from the laces of dead climbers’ shoes. It is predicated on truth values but incorporates fallibility because often the thing you trust, or the class of thing you trust, has been known to fail. Scientists sometimes lie, air planes occasionally fall from the sky. Trust becomes a matter of probability, if you’re so inclined to calculate it. If not, let someone calculate it for you and trust their results.
n00b to sudoer, an introduction
Let’s assume the following: that strong AI exists, that it’s a cyborg, networked intelligence comprised of both digital and organic nodes, and that it’s live in the wild. Terrifying(ly interesting)! Another form of intelligent life on Earth, created by and utilising us. Leaving aside the imminent threat of destruction presaged by Gates, Musk, Hawking, Bostrom et. al., how do we say hello?
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