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    William Ramsey, Why AI? |616|

    One of the most alarming aspects for me while reading the book is that the chat bots wouldn't give concise, non-anthropomorphised responses, even when specifically prompted to. But having tested Gemini just now, it is providing concise responses. Nevertheless, even though I caught Gemini out...
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    William Ramsey, Why AI? |616|

    Another interesting interview. I appreciate the mutual respect you have for each other, yet disagreement on whether AI will be a net positive for truthseeking vs the Dune-type perspective of banning AI. A few months ago I was leaning more to the Dune scenario. Then hearing the recent skeptiko...
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    Why AI is Divine? |609|

    Thanks Silence. I think it'll be a net massive loss of human jobs. Even the text to voice of PI in the latest skeptiko episode was so realistic it resoundingly passed the Turing Test. So why WOULDN'T a company replace all its phone operators?....... Then going a step further: replacing all...
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    Why AI is Divine? |609|

    That's wild. I've been wondering to what extent AI will displace human-held jobs. I'm thinking that almost everything will be affected in the long-run, but initially the job areas most affected will be creative and intellectual fields. Whereas it will take a long time for e.g. carpenters to be...
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    Buzz Coastin, Ghost in the Machine |615|

    At least for me, the AI passed the Turing Test. I usually didn't know who/what was talking, you or the AI. Was the text usually not labelled when there was a change of interlocutor? I genuinely couldn't tell.
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    Buzz Coastin, Ghost in the Machine |615|

    The text to voice of PI for example. Absolutely astounding. I played a bit of the end of the Skeptiko episode to someone and said it's someone talking with an AI. The person listening to the episode asked me which one the AI was!!!
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    Buzz Coastin, Ghost in the Machine |615|

    Almost every week, I see developments in AI that blow me away. It's like getting some software and learning what it can do. Then you log in again and it's got new capabilites. I remember when new capabilites in computing were coming out every year or so, like going from the 486 hardware to a...
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    Buzz Coastin, Ghost in the Machine |615|

    This is an excerpt from Alex's book. It's part of a dialogue between Gemini and Alex. Here is Gemini's response to Alex's question on how LLMs work. I found the analogy of a 'jungle' especially memorable: 'LLMs break the mold of traditional algorithmic-driven computer systems. Imagine the old...
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    Mark Gober, AI, Rabies, I am Science |614|

    Nice :) If you haven't already read it, I found Joe Macmoneagle's 'Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook' valuable, in order to have strict and testable protocols. I tried it with another person doing the remote viewing and it was somewhat accurate but only one try wasn't enough to tell if it was...
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    Mark Gober, AI, Rabies, I am Science |614|

    This reminds me of Aristotle's philosophy in which one has a chair, then takes a leg off it and asks if it's still a chair. Then takes another leg off it and asks if it's a chair. Etc. But on a practical level it goes ad absurdum. Sorry but that's how this debate here seems to me too.
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    Mark Gober, AI, Rabies, I am Science |614|

    Yeah but there's a difference in the meaning of 'exist' vs 'live'; unless one goes full-on philosophical that everything that exists is consciousness and therefore in a sense 'living'. But that's not what David Icke and others have been saying about viruses. They say they're just made-up, right...
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    Mark Gober, AI, Rabies, I am Science |614|

    I couldn't find the very clear evidence of footage from the International Space Station being a hoax that I'd seen a few years ago, but this video does have examples of suspicious aspects: e.g. - ISS design is so splayed out without apparent airlocks; - Footage shows astronauts seeming to be...
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    Mark Gober, AI, Rabies, I am Science |614|

    I just saw this analysis of a Neil Armstrong interview 1 1/2 years after the claimed Moon landing. Armstrong avoids using the 1st person singular pronoun "I" and past tense. Instead his language is general, such as using conditional language and he uses the formulation "I suspect" a couple of...
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    Mark Gober, AI, Rabies, I am Science |614|

    PS: On YouTube, I just tried finding that caught-red-handed excerpt from the talk show and almost all the results I got back were unrelated space station footage from CNN, BBC, PBS etc. It's definitely being censored...
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    Mark Gober, AI, Rabies, I am Science |614|

    I have more questions on the Space Race than answers. If the Moon landings were faked, why didn't the Soviet Union call it out? (unless the Soviet rulers were also in on the hoax) And was there technology to get humans alive to the Moon? (I heard the objection that there's a radioactive belt...
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