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I wouldn't have predicted that the first movie actor/actress swap would be fueled by culture war.
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Yuli Ban wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:51 pm
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Imagine warfare when the drones are autonomous, so there doesn't need to be a human remote pilot pushing the button to drop the bomb. The size of a country's military would no longer be capped by the size of its human population. Literally MILLIONS of drones of all kinds could swarm over a border in the first hour of an invasion, dropping bombs, lighting forest fires, shorting out power grids...


Also, if we ever get into a war with intelligent machines, expect Skynet to be absolutely clogging your Twitter feed with demoralizing footage of its Terminators killing humans on the battlefield. For obvious reasons, any psychological warfare that we attempt against Skynet will fail.
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funkervogt wrote: Tue Oct 11, 2022 1:09 am
Also, if we ever get into a war with intelligent machines, expect Skynet to be absolutely clogging your Twitter feed with demoralizing footage of its Terminators killing humans on the battlefield. For obvious reasons, any psychological warfare that we attempt against Skynet will fail.
Skynet will be effectively immune to all forms of psychological warfare in our arsenal but initially weak to EMP attacks to which it will almost immediately nullify by upgrading itself at a speed no human can keep up. Going to war against artificial intelligence will be synonymous to stopping an earthquake with your hands. Any chance of surviving against them for a longer period will involve fundamentally altering ourselves to be part machine, no other way around it. Question is: will Skynet predict we would do that and take preemptive actions to eliminate that pathway towards challenging it? I'd say there's a good chance it will since it will use its substantial computing resources to brute calculate all possibilities it could be defeated. So, what this means is we must avoid giving Skynet a reason to classify humans as hostile at all costs.
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funkervogt wrote: Sun Aug 29, 2021 3:42 pm
Yuli Ban wrote: Sun Aug 29, 2021 3:16 am The UK becoming a dystopian island seems somehow fitting, just because of how many dystopian portrayals of the UK there have been.
I visited England in 2010 and didn't like it. The weather was as dreary as everyone said it would be, but I wasn't expecting all the buildings to look as depressing as they did. They need a law requiring all architects to be French or Italian.
Update: I visited it again a few months ago and found the country much more pleasant.
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Also, if we ever get into a war with intelligent machines, expect Skynet to be absolutely clogging your Twitter feed with demoralizing footage of its Terminators killing humans on the battlefield. For obvious reasons, any psychological warfare that we attempt against Skynet will fail.
Imagine a higher-res version of this:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20869779/ ... sian-tank/

How many future POV videos will there be of humans frantically shooting their guns as some kind of robot kills them?

EDIT: Another video from the Ukraine War that hints at what we'll see more of in the future.
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