the real reason why there's no obvious spacefaring galactic civilizations is that they invent "AI" and then never manage to develop interstellar travel because all calculations are always subtly wrong
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 21:25:28 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ -
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Matt Boehm (bigolewannabe@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 22:50:26 JST Matt Boehm @thomasfuchs
Just a sec. Writing a draft of a novel where the one galactic civilization that made it maintains their hegemony by secretly poisoning FTL drive AI models.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 06:54:50 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @kentborg “now that we have reliable and fast computers, let’s run unreliable and slow algorithms on them!”
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Kent Borg (kentborg@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 06:54:51 JST Kent Borg @thomasfuchs Much deeper than it first appears.
A valuable property of computers is they are deterministic, they will sum the list of numbers the same each time. Where a human is insightful, as a new idea crosses his/er mind in a moment of distraction, humans are terrible at routinized tasks; as new ideas keep crossing our bored minds.
By making computers no longer reliable—whether through fuzzy, human-ish AI, or code that is never designed, documented, nor tested (because CI)—we loose a lot.
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