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Meh. Leaving out the rest of the date. August 29, 1997. Why does everyone worry about the clankers(sarcasm, just in case you’re sensitive) and not about the rich fuckers already controlling everything including those death panels they went on about. I wonder if the clankers would actually be more compassionate than what we have now. I’ll be dead within the decade, doubt I’ll find out.
We’ve had this conversation.
Ten years ago I wrote a blog piece about the notion of computers gaining sentience. One of the problems is we don’t actually know how to define or test for sentience (id est, consciousness or self awareness). For most of human history, it was so clear to us whether or not we were engaged with another human being, sentience seemed intuitively obvious.
I get a little into the bushes about qualia (such as the quality of the hue of red rather than it’s composition as #FF0000) but even that concept is functionally shallow, and only serves as a way to differentiate human intelligence from non-human intelligence.
We’ve seen bigots use this kind of notion to argue, say, that Chinese people don’t think the same as western folk, or more recently that neurodivergents don’t think the same way as normal people.
Bro, last time I saw the word qualia I was reading James Pustejosvky’s generative lexicon 15 years ago. Yeah I remember arguing with my professor and leaving my masters degree behind…good (?!) Times.
That was 5 minutes ago. I am not dead yet
yet
At a geometric… rate ?
Geometric rate is pretty fast. It doesn’t have to be exponential to be scary.
Pretty common way of expressing exponential growth
Except geometric means the exponent is fixed, i.e.
f(x) = x^2
f(x) = x^3
…
f(x) = x^n
where n is a constant, while exponential means the exponent is the variable, like
f(x) = 3^x
No. A geometric progression (u_n) with ratio r and first term a satisfies:
For every n, u_n = a × r^n.
Ratio r and first term a are fixed, exponent n varies. The sequence (u_n) does grow (or decrease) exponentially fast.
At least that’s what the English definition is, and in my first language as well. If there is one in which “geometric” means “power function”, I’d actually be curious to know.
Username checks out, this guy maths
He’s a terminator, not a mathinator.
Aren’t all computers mathinators?
In the German version he tells John and Sarah that his brain is based on a neutral net
Thank god he wasn’t a burninator
Trogdor!
Terminator was a man, Or maybe he was a robot-man, Or maybe he was just a robot…
The question is…is he fully functional?
Coincidentally, I happen to be watching families at play through a chain link fence at the moment.
What a blast!
Crispy McConnor
I like my human beings like I like my steaks: charred
How this effect was created before computers is crazy. The movement while disintegrating is so good.
How this effect was created before computers…
You mean the movie that introduced the T-1000?
This guy?: https://youtu.be/RDiUOp1Wokw
I miss practical effects. They are just so much more raw. The highly polished CGI that is everything these days is just visually boring to look at. I am not interested in the next flashy gimmick, anything that you can dream up is now possible to show on screen, so the fast paced stupid action doesn’t hit home at all anymore.
Same. Practical effects especially this one, stay in your mind.
I don’t know family members birthdays, but I’ve had this in my calendar for years:
That’s an awesome idea and I’m stealing it! Future me is going to love this, because there’s no way I’m going to remember that I set up this reminder.
Wrong decade bro…
Still hiding today
Everyone knows Judgement Day was successfully postponed until July 25, 2004.
1997
Epstein time
