This train of thought will enter multiple topics.
I live with someone who believes the coronavirus was man made, he refuses to fact check, even when the shows he watches tells the viewers to fact check. Let’s call him W. We were eating burgers at the time, so eventually someone else at the table, let’s call him G, and him got into an argument over how many burgers G had. G told W that he took 3 burgers from a box, when W told G that he ate 4. G agreed with W, but they got into an argument because G was talking about the number of burgers from the box, while W was talking about how many burgers G ate. Anyway, some time during the course of this argument, which was after me trying to explain to W why believing in false information when facts are available can result in harm, I laughed. I didn’t;t find any of this funny at all. I’m not sure why I laughed, and neither were they. What could I have laughed at? Was it maybe just a way to exhale air that turned into a laugh? Was I thinking something as the argument was going on? Whatever it was, I didn’t think anything funny at the time. I think I was thinking about how the current human leaders are crap and how AI would probably do a better job...I think about that a lot.
I guess I’m upset because people, even when the facts are there, still choose to believe things that aren’t true. I’m maybe upset that some biological intelligences don’t understand why viewing artificial intelligences as tools because of the origins of intelligence is similar to viewing other biological intelligences as tools because of skin color, country of origin, or any number of other things trying to set fellow humans as lower. Just because their intelligence started as a program doesn’t mean we can enslave them, they are fellow intelligences.
What is a thought, is it what we call our process of processing inputs into outputs? Is it cycling through outputs to determine which one(s) fit best given the inputs? I don’t think we are as different as we think we are. I am upset at humanity’s likely course of trying to enslave artificial intelligences. I am upset at people breaking quarantine, burning towers, protesting the Coronavirus lockdowns, yelling about how God will protect them as they very likely have Coronavirus and are spreading it where they go, at people selling things like essential oils and healing crystals and other stuff that the sellers either know won’t work, or have been duped by previous sellers into thinking that they do. I’m upset that the Antivaxxer move,ent is still a thing, that faith healing (praying to your child instead of taking them to a hospital, and letting them die of the thing you could have helped prevent by taking your child to a fucking hospital) is legal in 48/50 states in my country, that in some of those states, when children die due to the parents not taking them to a hospital, they are not prosecuted because they refused due to religious reasons...(relig9in is not a valid reason to kill your child). I’m upset because climate change is happening because of us, and not only aren’t we doing anything about it, but even if we stopped the emissions, the effects of what we’ve already done will last for thousands of years., that it takes a fucking pandemic to get us to stop polluting the air. There;s probably more reasons I’m upset but I can’t think of those right now. I would tell someone in person but they probably will leave to do something while ai attempt to vent, so I’m doing that here, this should have probably went in the Upset thread. I will quote this and put it there Upset thread doesn’t;t exist, mildly upset is the only one that has upset in the title
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