dimreepr

Sorry, I'm dyslexic, but may I say you lucky barsteward...

First rule of collecting, don't take the toy out of the box. 😉 On a slight tangent, I think there's going to be a stiff challenge to American democracy, coming up in November; I'm not sure what he can do if he loses, but he's always going to try ignoring the fact. Has Trump replaced Hitler, in the current version of Godwin's law?

Are you trying to demonstrate your ignorance of the economy?

I honestly thought the joke was more obvious. ChatGPT et al is an existential threat (IOW magical), ATM, and whether it's real or not is irrelevant, since we have no, effective, off switch.

What discussion is that, is magic real? If it's AI, and it's potential, then I think Isaac had a lot of relevance to add.

Isaac Assimov, I can't remember the specific novel, but a rogue robot (edit-with one of the 3 law's switched off) was shut down by a logic loop paradox. I think it may have been 'I Robot'.

No one learns anything from history, otherwise we'd still have an empire; contraction, under it's own weight, is inevitable. Let me qualify that, no one with any influence on those who want a simple/specious solution, learns from history.

Wouldn't that be fun???

Isn't that the Achilles heel of AI, in fiction, the logical paradox?

I get all that and much of the above points on fashion et al, but it does go to the heart of the problem as in 'I'm alright Jack'. I suffer with chronic procrastination, "as do we all" I here you all say, but mine is so extreme that even a catastrophic dead line is, for me, somehow negotiable and putoffable. It's much easier to accept that a paraplegic can't work, for a reason, rather than an invisible excuse.

The fundamental problem is, the conflation of excuse and reason; we can see a reason for the excuse (a broken leg/spine etc) but we can't see the reason for the, so called, excuse bc it's not fair, I work hard so why can't they???

Indeed, but how do we know that it relates to reality? That's like suggesting that there's an absolutely perfect thing, at the end of the evolutionary process...

What I'm implying is, you're not smarter than the collective smartery of all human smartness... I wonder by "colonsolting" do you mean a colonoscopist consultant plying his/her trade?

Indeed, as the late great Douglas Adams once intonated, when we finally understand this universe a great big sign will light up and say "Level two, begin"... Fundamentally, it's your choice, "I think therefore I am" is a flawed philosophy, but can you think of a better one?