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[–] blurg@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. -- Hannah Arendt

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

might

That word is carrying a mighty big load.

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's one that doesn't suck?

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Historical background on current events: Heather Cox Richardson.

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, lots of opinions, a few facts: one of the discussions.

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

True in a way. However, there is a rather large collection of speculation on the Internet that is quite an undertaking to correct. And a large population of people and bots willing to speculate. Also, having once been speculated, each speculation takes on a life of its own. If it gets much more substantial, forget Skynet, we're busy creating Specunet and its sidekick Confusionet -- an insidious duo.

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

There's certainly a history of Unix and Unix-like forks; which is rather simple compared to the Linux distro forks (go right to the big pic).

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Or as Dijkstra puts it: “asking whether a machine can think is as dumb as asking if a submarine can swim”.

Alan Turing puts it similarly, the question is nonsense. However, if you define "machine" and "thinking", and redefine the question to mean: is machine thinking differentiable from human thinking; you can answer affirmatively, theoretically (rough paraphrasing). Though the current evidence suggests otherwise (e.g. AI learning from other AI drifts toward nonsense).

For more, see: Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and Turing's original paper (which goes into the Imitation Game).

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Oooooh, okay, I misread. Apologies.

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yet use AI (possibly) to determine users' AI answers.

[–] blurg@lemmy.world -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

~~The "running joke" used by millions for serious and playful projects? [edited for punctuation]~~

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