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vernes1978 t1_ixa97eb wrote

Reply to comment by Kolinnor in Would like to say that this subreddit's attitude towards progress is admirable and makes this sub better than most other future related discussion hubs by Foundation12a

You saying that just piling up heaps of consumer level computers won't spontaneously create the machine god that also happens to want to fix our problems?
Herecy!

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TopicRepulsive7936 t1_ixao8qa wrote

As time goes on the probability for it approaches 100%.

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vernes1978 t1_ixbwkqk wrote

yeah no.
That will never work that way.
At best you would be stacking specifically designed components that are suppose to work by plugging into each other.
But you will never "oopsy I made sentient AI" like Wesley fucking Crusher just like you can't oopsy yourself into a net positive fusion reactor or oopsy a concoction of washing detergent into an immortality elixer.
Shit only works after painstakingly long designing and rebuilding.

But I should at least admit that you are the audience that is being celebrated in this post.
One day we will trip over ourselves carrying a large pile of random devices and the great AI savior will arise.
Fixing our problems so we don't have to.

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TopicRepulsive7936 t1_ixdi33k wrote

I'm just being pragmatic.

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vernes1978 t1_ixedkq1 wrote

> dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.

Realistically, I make a house by pouring bricks and mortar on a heap until they accidentally slide into the desired shape.

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TopicRepulsive7936 t1_ixehsbd wrote

Attempts at trying to build a house in the traditional way have failed for millenia.

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vernes1978 t1_ixemvj0 wrote

No, I'm not even using actual bricks.
I'm using lego bricks.
And not actual mortar, I'm using spit instead.
But if you use enough, it will work, eventually.
Matter a fact, I probably couldn't even prevent it from forming a house even if I wanted to.
A house will form, and it will also be out of my control.

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