Tag: philosophy
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Universal Paperclips
This is a very fun game based on the Paperclip Maximiser concept. If you like that sort of thing… https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html It’s based on the Nick Bostrom thought experiment to terrify yourself about AI. So briefly the story is that humans design an AI to make paperclips as efficiently as possible, but accidentally make it a…
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Dead Internet
A bit of a departure from the ‘drunk again?’ stuff I’ve been posting. This is about ‘The Dead Internet’. I’ll explain the theory briefly and I’ve left a very cool video at the bottom of the page which explains it much better than I can, this is because I want you to watch this really…
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Embracing this universe and shining
That is a quote from a translation of a Japanese song. We have lots of READ, let’s have a watch Neon Genesis Evangelion It’s like Miyazaki, it’s a Japanese national treasure, but it is so dark they don’t know what to do with it. They did a remake where they changed it from 12 hours…
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Gig Crime. You Are the Computer
I am a bit of a Weeb and was just browsing through a thing about news and saw this very interesting video. It’s a bit long so I’ll put a summary below if you don’t want to watch it. But then I’m going to then go into a little ramble about ‘what’s it all about?’…
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A Liminal Post from The Matrix
So this is a 1am thought that may be expanded. I’ve not done writing for ages and this is a first draft that will probably never be redrafted. One of the things that is fashionable in my algorithm is Liminal Spaces. Not really fashionable because the people who are on the ball have been doing…