I have a solution.

We rename the continents.

You can’t use the second because the official name for Mexico is United Mexican States.

There’s also the Republic of Ireland, the Republic of Korea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United Republic of Tanzania, the People’s Republic of China, the State of Kuwait, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Latvia, the Principality of Monaco, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Republic of Peru, the Republic of Paraguay, the Republic of Ecuador and a whole ton of other countries who are called by the last word in their official names because that is HOW ENGLISH WORKS.

And if you really gave a damn about all the people in Latin America, you’d call them by the proper names of their countries.

But if you insist I’m wrong, go over to lemmy.ca and post a thread telling them they’re American. See what they think.

I’m pretty sure those crusaders are not from the Americas.

Everyone who called Firefish stupid needs to come see this and reconsider.

My mother will only vote Republican. :(

Oh, I just meant the first part. Yes, we’re out of touch. We’re old. Deal with it. Don’t be like my mother, dying your hair into your 70s.

I thought we killed generational trend analysis anyway.

This is the nature of aging. As an older millennial I wish more millennials would get with it. We spent our 20s and 30s wanting to be treated as adults. Well, this is how young people treat adults.

That’s because the capital-s Singularity as proposed by Verner Vinge is what we’re worried about here. The advent of a technological achievement that forever changes humanity, possibly signalling the end of it.

This does specifically set a barrier, which is a “Point of No Return” when it comes to technology. This is what most people mean when they mean the Singularity. When a program becomes capital-I Intelligent.

Neumann’s original proposal is as limited by mathematics as an LLM itself. The term Singularity has, as is common in the English language, become a larger term to signify a barrier has been crossed. There are other theories beyond the idea that it’s just self-replication gone wild.

You’re trying to reduce what to most people is a moral quandry to pure mathematics. Since my core point is that pure mathematics is not enough to capture the depth and potential of humanity, I’m not going to be swayed by being told it’s just a mathematical function.

I will give you a boost for being interesting, though.

It’s not an arbitrary barrier. It’s important. Can the computer actually make a decision? Can it be HELD ACCOUNTABLE for that decision? If we’re going to deploy these things to replace human beings, this is a question that needs a “Yes” answer.

Right now the answers are no. They can’t make a decision that takes multiple dimensions of an issue into account. But businesses ARE saying that they can replace human writers, people ARE using them to write legal briefs and technical instructions.

I don’t know why you are so insistent that this doesn’t matter. We’re watching something kick its legs, it can’t even crawl yet, but it’s being signed up for a marathon and you’re arguing that it’ll be able to do the marathon eventually so that’s good enough.

You underestimate yourself as a complex method of distributing gametes. Because you are operating on a much more complicated mathematical base than a computer. You’re analog. Your brain is an analog computing engine that moves faster than any analog machine we’ve ever been able to make, the only way we can transmit faster is by using digital in our computers. Which means that down to it, while we might just be chemical and electrical signals, the computer itself is just two signals. Two voltages. 1 and 0. Our thinking is vastly more complex, even as fast as this thing goes. That’s what instinct and intuition is, our brains processing evidence against memory.

@agamemnonymous No, it looks like it beforehand. ChatGPT’s just a language prediction engine, but people think it can think. It can only discern what the most probable language patterns are, it can’t make judgements. But people are arguing it is working off inspiration.

And we’ve KNOWN it will look like it beforehand, that’s why there’s even concepts like a Turing test, to prepare us for discerning the illusion of intelligence from actual intelligence.

Prersonally, I suspect social media and the way that Bigsoc companies hack the human mind using feed algorithms is an argument for a Non-AI Singularity, and more likely than a math engine that predicts the next word in an astoundingly natural way.

We called it the Threadiverse first.

Dark Wizards and Light Wizards.

To be fair, he didn’t get FIRED. He just got moved to the basement, and put in charge down there.

I’d add “Update your resume” and start looking because if Reddit holds to the pattern of enschittification, then layoffs are coming. Pointless, stupid layoffs that don’t care how important your job is.

True. Though we’re blaming the wrong thing in that case, we don’t have town events and neighborhood gatherings because local communities don’t have the money or a set town space anymore since the public square has been corporatized over the last few decades. Everything’s been monetized, loitering laws have criminalized just hanging out. Real life has the same problem the internet has.

I have those socks.

I bet this is more about the stress of being constantly available to your boss, your parents, your teachers, your neediest friends than about wanting a world without technology.