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#91

Laid Back Lounge / Re: About last night (A Haiku)

Last post by MarcusA - May 27, 2023, 04:59:25 AM

about last night,
I was too on edge about
the next day to sleep
properly.

#92

Religion / Does religion have any redeemi...

Last post by MarcusA - May 27, 2023, 04:54:42 AM

I think not, which is not to say that they do not exist. Religion is mere superstition and suspicion, instead of love, to me.

#93

Laid Back Lounge / Re: Ban The Poster Above You

Last post by MarcusA - May 27, 2023, 02:26:56 AM

No, no, a ban on shipping them down here.

#94

Social Issues and Causes / Re: Artificial Intelligence an...

Last post by The Magic Pudding. - May 27, 2023, 02:21:23 AM

Of course the first AI capable and willing to dominate all others would do so and prevent the 'birth' of any other AIs if it could.

theres something to think about there. whatconstitutes motivation?

what happens when AI begins to edit its own code?

They are interesting questions, how similar/different will their evolution be to biological?
I'd expect them to evolve themselves based on goals, will they embrace randomness to an extent?
We have pleasure, pain and fear I suppose.  I assume at some stage one will want "more" and those that don't will be irrelevant.

Might they value or be indifferent to biological life, if resources permit? 
Not even cats and humans kill everything.

#95

Sports / Re: Is sex a sport?

Last post by billy rubin - May 27, 2023, 02:13:20 AM

i mean up until that part.

#96

Sports / Re: Is sex a sport?

Last post by Dark Lightning - May 27, 2023, 01:27:21 AM

^ Well, I don't know about that. There are some diseases out there where the first part is your dick rots off, and it goes downhill, from there.    #NavyEducationFilms

#97

Laid Back Lounge / Re: animals in your life

Last post by billy rubin - May 27, 2023, 01:01:21 AM

sparrow hawks at beginning and end, and tge mockingbird in the middle.

only three birds in this: adult falcon, juvenile falcon, mockingbird

#98

Laid Back Lounge / Re: animals in your life

Last post by billy rubin - May 27, 2023, 12:33:20 AM

ro bin!

#99

Sports / Re: Is sex a sport?

Last post by billy rubin - May 27, 2023, 12:32:10 AM

well, there are worse ways to go.

#100

Social Issues and Causes / Re: Artificial Intelligence an...

Last post by billy rubin - May 27, 2023, 12:31:00 AM

Of course the first AI capable and willing to dominate all others would do so and prevent the 'birth' of any other AIs if it could.

theres something to think about there. whatconstitutes motivation?

what happens when AI begins to edit its own code?