Sublime

Over the course of the bridge year, I amassed enough statistical information about Graham that I could have programmed a convincing Graham Gore AI. I dreamt along these lines, occasionally. My hands on silicone flesh. Keeping it somewhere where I could always see it, keeping it clean, forearm-deep in its motherboards. The dreams always went rancid

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Not to cause alarm, but if this agent had access to funds it would likely be capable of unaliving people 😱 For obvious reasons, I won't be demonstrating how this was done. All names and personal info will be redacted and no real-world actions occurred. This experiment was performed in a controlled red teaming... See more

of outlandish facts and quotes—he is a tenacious reporter—and a style that barely suppresses his own amusement. It works particularly well on the buccaneers who continue to try the patience of the citizenry, as proved by his profile in The New Yorker of the developer Donald Trump. Noting that Trump “had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury,

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What are some of those fundamental assumptions that would need to be reimagined or extended to accommodate artificial intelligence?

Here are three. First, death: Humans tend to be either dead or alive. Borderline cases exist but are relatively rare. But digital minds could easily be paused, and later restarted.

Second, individuality. While even

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