Mad World

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Amongst all these 10's of thousands of vertebrate species..only 3 birds and 5 mammals.

Killing babies goes waaaay back.

Alllll the way..


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Pascal’s Artificial Intelligence Wager

In 2008 European physicists at CERN were on the verge of activating the Large Hadron Collider to great acclaim. The LHC held the promise of testing precise predictions of the most important current theories in physics, including finding the elusive Higgs Boson (which was indeed successfully confirmed in 2012).

However, some opponents of CERN’s activation raised an almost laughable objection, encapsulated in a lawsuit against CERN from the German chemist Otto Rossler, that switching the LHC on might create a miniature black hole and destroy the Earth. In response, most physicists dismissed the chances of such a catastrophe as extremely unlikely, but none of them declared that it was utterly impossible.

This raises an important practical and philosophical problem: how large does a probability of an activity destroying humanity need to be in order to outweigh any potential benefits of doing it? How do we even begin to weigh a plausible risk of destroying all humanity against other benefits?
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There is good reason to consider if there is a "Creator God' it lives in fear of what it has created..for the same reason we fear AI rising up to destroy us.

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"When humans began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born
to them, the sons of God [!yhlah ynb] saw that the daughters of men were fair;
and they took wives from them as they chose. . . . The Nephilim were on the earth
in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters
of men, and they bore children to them. These were the Gibborim of old, men of
renown."

here is what sunlight on the surface of the water may look like to them. waves of light interacting with waves of water! lol

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