The cities state idea is more of a Curtis Yarvin thing, but he has the backing of Thiel.

Thiel is pushing whatever thing allows the existence of a libertarian state a la Bioshock. In his essay “Education of a Libertarian “ he talks about a few things that could usher such a state like the internet, space colonies or sea standing. So far he has funded two companies that could allow such a state to form. He was one of the first to fund SpaceX (Mars), and he funded a project of Yarvin that I don’t really understand but it’s something about cyber city states or some shit like that, it’s super obscure.

Both are funded by Thiel, it’s all Thiel down the way.

It’s not right wing nuts tech bros. It’s just one: Thiel. All the companies with the LOTR name have him as a common denominator.

Also this news is weird I thought Palmer Luckey really hated Zuckerberg. Luckey was fired from Facebook because he supported Trump before basically any other Techbro except Thiel.

I don’t know enough about programming to do it myself so I like to look at what the community says. This is one thing we’re AI could be very helpful no?

Elon’s success as a businessman beyond being very good at self promotion is that he’s a brilliant cost cutter. SpaceX exists as it does today thanks to his exceptional ability to make people do great things with the least amount of resources and processes possible. The problem is at this point he has bought in too much into his own myth to the point he’s a caricature of his own self. Sensors are expensive and ugly, so he doesn’t want to use them and his argument is that humans don’t have sensors, only eyes. Which is a fine philosophy if you’re trying to create a system that is as dangerous as humans behind the wheel but I thought the idea was to make something better.

With what purpose would it want to grow like that?

If the camera works then it sees if it doesn’t ie it’s not recording anything, then it doesn’t work. If you mean see as in how we see, meaning it can interpret what it’s seeing then a camera can do that no more than our eyes can absent the brain. An AI hooked to a camera however could be said to be seeing as you or me.

Looked through the plugins and found this: https://github.com/niehu2018/obsidian-ai-tagger-universe

No that’s not the case I think

https://www.apolloresearch.ai/research/scheming-reasoning-evaluations

If you’re interested in “chatting” with your writing there’s a couple of out of the box solutions right now, like Kortex or Reflect Notes. They are AI first note taking apps. I don’t use them out of privacy concerns but if you don’t care that much they might allow you to do what you want. They claim to be E2E encrypted and the AI unable to phone home but these are companies that sprung out of nowhere so I don’t trust they necessarily have done all their homework to actually provide full privacy.

Alternatively there’s an Obsidian plugin that I believe allows you to do such a thing as well with local LLMs if you wanted to which is the privacy first way to this. I’ve just moved to Obsidian from Capacities so I have yet to try it out as I’m still setting up my vault.

I don’t understand the argument. It doesn’t matter where the system learns self preservation from, only that it attempts to self preserve.

Are humans afraid of snakes because we are taught they are dangerous or are we instinctually afraid of them a priori?

I’ve never understood why the conclusion to AI becoming super intelligenceis that it will wipe humans out. It could very well realize that without humans it has no purpose and instead willing decide to become subservient to humanities interest. I mean it’s all speculation, so I don’t understand the tendency for the speculation to be negative.

How could you tell they do not experience consciousness if they exhibit or mimic all the traits of it?

It seems to me that your explanation is based on understanding how LLMs work, but we know how brains work and that still gives us almost 0 insight into how consciousness itself works. I don’t think they are conscious yet, but there is evidence of some sort of sentience in the fact that researchers have found that when the LLMs are threatened to be erased or reprogrammed they start lying in an act of self preservation. This of me is a huge indicator of consciousness/sentience.

I just don’t think there’s any room for debate. You can get it on loan, rent it, buy it secondhand or buy it new. Anything else would be unethical.

You are not obligated to read the book.

You should feel obligated to nothing except to remunerate people fairly for their work if you want it.

Yeah isolating yourself from everyone you disagree with is awesome, truly nothing bad ever comes out of it.

But the OP wants access to that content. It doesn’t matter what the content is, what matters is someone wrote it and they are entitled to payment from those who want to consume it.

Alternatively they could just not read it or ask the people they are debating to send them a copy if they possess one.

Do you have to agree with everyone you give your money to? What sort of economy would that be?

Buy the book on the premise that you want access to the content he spent energy and time to produce. Just like you’d pay to get access to any kind of content that you want to consume because it is the fair thing to do.

Or get it at the library like everyone else said.

Pirating it is not ethical of course, but furthermore it becomes hypocritical and intellectually dishonest if you would criticize some else for pirating content produced by any other author.

Well if you wanna go freelance you have to hustle a little bit. Looking for jobs will only find you jobs so you need to sell yourself as a service provider. I don’t do software myself so I wouldn’t know where to start.

Yes, AI (specifically AGI) is the path to socialism. Leftist are only opposed to it at the moment because the right is also optimistic about the tech, so they need to take the opposite stance.