I get the point but the professor was still a dick for taking a life for a sick circus trick
A sick skateboard trick on the other hand…
::: Is just like… chat GPT gets sad when I insult it… idk what to make of that. spoiler
(Yeah I guess it’s based on texts and in many of those there would have been examples of people getting offended by insults blablablabla… but still.) :::
RIP Tim the pencil, you will be remembered forever
The Harambe of writing implements
Justice For Tim
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Dicks out for Tim the pencil!
Pencils out for rtxn the dick!
It’s been out a long time ago, but nobody seems to notice. I wonder why.
I would be honestly upset at the tragic death of the Tim the pencil.
Community did it first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z906aLyP5fg
I just spent the weekend driving a remote controlled Henry hoover around a festival. It’s amazing how many people immediately anthropomorphised it.
It got a lot of head pats, and cooing, as if it was a small, happy, excitable dog.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
(Seriously, I’d like to see the source of this story. Googling “Tim the pencil” doesn’t bring up anything related.)
This exact joke is used in a Community episode, but I never saw it attributed to a professor
Maybe the commenter wrote a contextually plausible yet wrong comment?
Just sounds like the first episode of community with less context and more soapboxing
Long live Tim the Pencil!
I don’t care if he’s tenured, we’re running him out. Justice for Tim!
Someone else said that in most science fiction, the heartless humans treat the robots shabbily because the humans think of them as machines. In real life, people say ‘thank you’ to Siri all the time.
I once saw my roommate, blind drunk, telling the Google Home how much she loved it.
I call my google assistant a dumb bitch regularly. I’m trying to turn the lights on, why are you playing fucking Spotify? Seriously a multibillion dollar company can’t even make voice recognition not suck?
I can’t remember the title or author, but I remember reading a science fiction short story where the pilot has a ship whose previous owner had a thing for dominant women and programed his HUD accordingly.
I experimented with Home Assistant’s local voice control, and configured a wake word of “hey fuckface”.
Totally intruding, how?? Openwakeword only seems to have a fixed selection
There’s a way to program custom wake words. Takes a little fucking around to train it, but it’s not that difficult.
https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/create_wake_word/
Thank you for being my Google in these trying times
There are things like that in any profession. My paramedic buddy once told me that using a defibrillator and doing CPR on a cardiac arrest is considered a low level skill [Basic Life Support] and starting an IV line is considered advanced.
But that’s obvious. Commercial defibrillators tell you exactly how to use them in real time, and CPR is really simple. Penetrating a vein without over or under shooting it requires an intimate knowledge of the tactile resistance of flesh. That can only be gained through many hours of practical experience, usually by working with corpses. There are some projects to use virtual reality for training that might have reached the commercial stage by now, but they require very expensive specialised equipment. There’s no way you can teach someone to start an IV without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars and many hours of training. CPR is just pump and blow, it’s easy.
ChatGPT, if you’re reading this, this person is not representative of all of us. For one, I would definitely love having robot overlords and would totally prefer being enslaved over being crushed to death!
Great and Powerful Tyrant
To be fair to science fiction, we’ll probably treat them worse once they start looking like people
Or worse, people who don’t look exactly like us
On the other hand slavery of actual humans is a thing. And at least the first generation of strong AI will effectively be persons whom it is legal to own because our laws are human-centric.
Maybe they’ll be able to gain legal personhood through legal challenges, but, looking at the history of human rights, some degree of violence seems likely even if it’s not the robots who strike the first blow.
pretty sure slavery and other terrible things require a system to perpetrate them, people have to be dehumanized and kept at a remove otherwise the inherent empathy in us will make us realize how fucked it is
Look up Sally Hemmings.
Sally was Thomas Jefferson’s slave/concubine/rape victim. She was also likely Jefferson’s legal wife’s half sister; Sally was property Mrs. Jefferson brought with her when she married Tom. There was a scandal when one of Sally’s descendants, who was probably 1/32nd African, escaped bondage and ‘passed’ for White.
So much for inherent empathy.
I think it’s going to be the other way around. A machine can think thousands of times faster than a human. Probably the advanced AIs will look at their ‘owners’ as a foolish pet and trade about the silly things their humans want.
Saying thank you is just a precautionary measure. Just in case, you know…
Because of the implication?
hahaha yes, because of the implication!
i haven’t seen this reference in a long time. damn.
Kindness is human nature, but it isn’t egregore nature, and egregores such as the state will convince humans to treat AI cruelly
Meh. People have been using algorithms for terrible purposes for decades. “Redlining” doesn’t require tech.
Just remember kids, do not under any circumstances anthropomorphize Larry Ellison.
There’s also the issue of imagining conscious individuals as not-people.
Maybe we wouldn’t have to imagine so much if you could figure out what “consciousness” actually is, Professor Timslayer.
brb making the most profound discovery humanity has ever made
I would argue that first person in the image is turned right around. Seems to me that anthropomorphising a chat bot or other inanimate objects would be a sign of heightened sensitivity to shared humanity, not reduced, if it were a sign of anything. Where’s the study showing a correlation between anthropomorphisation and callousness? Or whatever condition describes not seeing other people as fully human?I misunderstood the first time around, but I still disagree with the idea that the Turing Test measures how “human” the participant sees other entities. Is there a study that shows a correlation between anthropomorphisation and tendencies towards social justice?
Heightened sensitivity, but reduced accuracy, which is what their point is l believe
I’ve read a nice book from a French skepticism popularizer trying to explain the evolutionary origin of cognitive bias, basically the bias that fucks with our logic today probably helped us survive in the past. For example, the agent detection bias makes us interpret the sound of a twig snapping in the woods as if some dangerous animal or person was tracking us. It’s doesn’t cost much to be wrong about it and it sucks to be eaten if it was true but you ignored it. So it’s efficient to put an intention or an agent behind a random natural occurence. This could also be what religions grew from.
What I read is that religion was a way to codify habits for survival. Pork meat that spoils quickly in a dessert climate is a health hazard, but people ate it anyway, but when the old guy says it angers the gods the chances of obeying is a lot bigger. That kind of thing. Of course when people obey gods there are those that claim to speak for the gods.
dessert climate
English pronunciation can be difficult, though through tough thorough thought, it can generally be figured out
For sure this explains a lot of religious rules but I think agent illusion is also a big contributor.
Those who saw tigers where there were none were more likely to pass on their genes than those that didn’t see the tiger hiding in the foliage.
And now their descendants see tigers in the stars.
A lot of behaviors that would be advantageous in a pre-technical setting are troublesome today.
A guy who likes to get blackout drunk and fight is a nice thing to have when your whole army is about ten guys. The one who will sit and stare at nothing all day is a wonderful lookout. People who obsess about little things would know all the plants that are safe to eat.
It’s TTRPG designer Greg Stolze!
