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[martinuzz]

This is a perfect rock crystal. On the item is an image of the entire collective knowledge of the human species. It is made from rock crystal.

[Mech#4]

Well, yes. What I was suggesting was because they are small, physical space isn't too much of a problem so you could grow new crystals as you need them, storing the old ones on a tray or something.

[TempAcc]

And smashing the old ones if they happen to be your porn collection :v

I can see it now. Thousands of years in the future, a group of beings investigates this strangely intrincately etched crystal found in the ruins of a structure, only to find out it contains massive amounts of data on varied forms of human sexual behavior and nothing else. The aliens finally have an idea of how human anatomy looks like, through porn.

[Max™]

We need us a writer in here, stat.

[TempAcc]

I'm also surprised at how this whole crystal hard drive thing hasn't spawned another wave of crystal skull related conspiracies.

[Amperzand]

Dammit, don't give the internet ideas.

[hops]

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Fleshlight.

[Starver]

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Fleshlight.

The crystal fleshlight that can also store porn.

Both digitally and, with careful implementation, like a kaleidescope!

Fun both with and without company, computer or even batteries!

[TempAcc]

So, a new study recently published on Nature identified around 180 different areas on the brain, 97 whose functions are currently pretty much unknown.

So we don't know shit about roughly half of the brain.

[Sergarr]

Google uses DeepMind-based AI to optimize power consumption of its data centers, already improving Power Usage Efficiency by 15% - and that's only the beginning.

why didn't I go to AI university

[MetalSlimeHunt]

We're all gonna fucking die.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It doesn't have to want to murder humans, it just has to function in a way that strays, in any single variable, beyond the factors we exist with.

[Loud Whispers]

Nah.
The issue with true AI would be that it would just self-program itself into eternal pleasure. We'd be more likely to be unable to make a properly functional one as opposed to creating one that wants to murder humans.

"Supercomputer AI, have you solved our physics conundrums yet?"
"Nah but dude weed lmaoooo"

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Seriously, there's no room for self-programing in this discussion. We don't know if functional self-programing on that level is even possible, or if it's more akin to trying to do brain surgery on yourself. You could be the best damn neuro-surgeon ever, past or future, but that doesn't mean you can cut up your own brain.

Nor is it necessary to have some overpowering bootstrapping capacity. It just has to have enough power, self acquired or not, to do something destructive.

In fact, it doesn't even necessarily have to have that. It could have no authority and unknowingly or unwillingly pull the equivalent of giving cavemen tacnukes by failing to know what information it should not give humanity.

[TheBiggerFish]

looks on, interested