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   HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 19:29:17 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

   • Dgar
   • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)
   • ❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻

   species that has so far globally deprived itself of the basis for its life:

   #Cyanobacteria in the #GreatOxidationEvent...

   @SnowyCA @monotonehell @dgar

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)

     @HistoPol yup. We are stupid creatures. @monotonehell @dgar

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)
     • ❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻

     @SnowyCA

     It's a lot worse:
     We are the most stupid species since the creation of Earth.

     @monotonehell @dgar

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 22:23:38 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)
     • ❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻

     @SnowyCA @monotonehell @dgar

     Die y'all See the 3 follow-up posts of my pictures thread?
     I had posted them with #FediLab but I don't see them anymore!

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)

     @HistoPol
     Agreeing with that. @monotonehell @dgar

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     ❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻 (snowyca@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 23:58:21 JST ❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)

     @HistoPol no. I did not. I saw two pictures. @monotonehell @dgar

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)
     • ❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻

     @SnowyCA
     Thanks, I hate it, when this happens.

     @monotonehell @dgar

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 03:52:42 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)
     • ❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻

     @SnowyCA @monotonehell @dgar

     👉Man & machine occupy the same #EcologicalNiche👈

     (3/n)

     ...Many, including in the #AI industry, think that #AGI is still many years away or won't even be feasible in the foreseeable future. There are some signs that they are not right. (E.g. rumors of #OpenAI breakthrough this week; #Embodiment...

     see separate thread:

     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110318092360670290

     Suppose there was an #AGI that was self-aware and thus also had an instinct for self-preservation. What would be...

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)
     • ❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻

     @SnowyCA
     @monotonehell @dgar

     👉Man & machine occupy the same #EcologicalNiche👈

     (3/n)

     ...Many, including in the #AI industry, think that #AGI is still many years away or won't even be feasible in the foreseeable future. There are some signs that they are not right. (E.g. rumors of #OpenAI breakthrough this week; #Embodiment...

     see separate thread:

     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110318092360670290

     Suppose there was an #AGI that was self-aware and thus also had an instinct for self-preservation. What would be...

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)
     • ❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻

     @SnowyCA @monotonehell @dgar

     "👉Man & machine occupy the same #EcologicalNiche👈

     (4/n)

     Suppose there was an #AGI that was self-aware and thus also had an instinct for self-preservation. What would be their biggest threat?

     Mankind! - With its reckless global warming and the resulting increase in #extremeweather events, especially hurricanes.
     Moreover, mankind is the biggest competitor when it comes to "food": energy and water.

     So,...

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     "👉Man & machine occupy the same #EcologicalNiche👈

     (5/5)

     ...what would be more obvious for this #AGI to act similarly to #PhilipKDick's #SecondVariety?
     It makes perfect sense.

     (Excellent radio play version:
     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110137012669606938)

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)

     @HistoPol glitches in the webiverse.

     @monotonehell @dgar

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     @SnowyCA @monotonehell @dgar

     Boy, that was no glitch, but a major f...

     Anyway, this thread was important to me, so I invested another half hour to fix it.

     Hope it works.

     It is a 5-post-thread now. 😁

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 04:16:59 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)
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     @SnowyCA
     I'll check this out on the WE, THX.

     @monotonehell @dgar

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)

     @HistoPol
     Whew that was a long conversation in the link. Interesting for sure.

     I came across this very simplified article

     https://scitechdaily.com/how-ai-is-learning-to-think-on-its-own-like-humans/

     @monotonehell @dgar

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 15:37:29 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)
     • ❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻

     @SnowyCA

     #AILearning

     (1/2)

     I've listened to the article.

     I find some statements disturbing, though I had expected them.

     "Artificial intelligence, too, is capable of self-correction and arriving at new conclusions through “learning by thinking.”

     "AI has gotten to the point where it’s so sophisticated in some ways, but limited in others, that we have this opportunity to study the similarities and differences between human and artificial intelligence..."

     Yep, problem..

     @monotonehell @dgar

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 15:38:41 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)
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     @SnowyCA @monotonehell @dgar

     #AILearning

     (2/3)

     ...here: when an #AI learns something, it's results are available instantly everywhere.
     Once self-awareness sets in, it might be too late.

     The first General Artificial Intelligence will be too human in its thinking: egotistic, egocentric, biased, with no or little compassion.

     Pandora's Box has been opened, in combination by Goethe's Socerer Apprentice:

     "Sir, my need is sore.
     Spirits that I've cited
     My commands ignore."

     The...

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)
     • ❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻

     @SnowyCA @monotonehell @dgar

     #AILearning

     (3/3)

     ...
     "Sir, my need is sore.
     Spirits that I've cited
     My commands ignore."

     The key problem is:
     There is no sorcerer that will save humanity!

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     ❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻 (snowyca@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 04:04:19 JST ❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)

     @HistoPol

     I had the same concerns!
     This is another one of those "we are living a dystopian sci-fi" moments.
     @monotonehell @dgar

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 11:18:56 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • monotonehell 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)
     • ❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻

     @SnowyCA

     Yep.
     I'd say about the first half of these #SciFi #Dystopias with a bit of #Westworld:

     https://social.vivaldi.net/@SnowyCA/114827915104725685

     @monotonehell @dgar