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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

I want chocolate, I don’t eat chocolate, exercise of free will.

There’s a reason you don’t eat chocolate - likely health concerns or fear of weight gain. Your desire to stay healthy is stronger than your desire to eat chocolate. But you can’t take credit for that any more than you can blame an alcoholic for their inability to resist drinking.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Bubble sort is just a basic set of steps for sorting numbers - it doesn’t make choices or adapt. A chess engine, on the other hand, looks at different possible moves, evaluates which one is best, and adjusts based on the opponent’s play. It actively searches through options and makes decisions, while bubble sort just follows the same repetitive process no matter what. That’s a huge difference.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

How's insulting the people respectfully disagreeing with you working out so far? That ad-hominem was completely uncalled for.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It's not. Bubble sort is a purely deterministic algorithm with no learning or intelligence involved.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's why I've always just used those 3-in-one general lubricants. I completely soak the chain in it and then wipe it off with a rag. The lube displaces any water there may be while also flushing out the dirt which I then wipe off with the rag. I almost never wash my chain yet it's always looking new and shiny. The only downside to this is that the lube is quite short lived so I need to repeat this every two weeks or so but as it only takes about 2 minutes I'm fine by that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The only source with even remotely accurate information of such thing are the major intelligence agencies and they're not going to hand out that information for obvious reasons. No government in the world releases exact numbers of their military strenght.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Third, it would need free will.

I strongly disagree there. I argue that not even humans have free will, yet we're generally intelligent so I don't see why AGI would need it either. In fact, I don't even know what true free will would look like. There are only two reasons why anyone does anything: either you want to or you have to. There's obviously no freedom in having to do something but you can't choose your wants and not-wants either. You helplessly have the beliefs and preferences that you do. You didn't choose them and you can't choose to not have them either.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

The whole idea of having your house hooked into a gas line is bonkers to me. I'm a plumber whose constantly fixing leaking pipes in people's homes. Gasses have even higher tendency to leak than water and it's much harder to detect. In the worst case scenario it can literally blow up your house so that's there's nothing left of it. No thank you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Well, rest assured. This is a meditation app - he doesn't share his political opinions in there. He has a podcast (and substack) for that for which he'll also give anyone a free subscription to in case they want to look into this controversy and hear from the original source rather than from the famously anti-Sam Harris reporter, Ezra Klein

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

And why do people need to be warned of that for?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

PM me and I'll give you a free month to the Waking Up app or alternatively message the support there and ask for a free subscribtion and they'll give you one for a year and then you can ask again next year.

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