Lately I've really been wondering if Skynet actually is the next evolution.
That humans, like all previous animals, are just a stepping stone and there is actually no avoiding machine overlords. It actually happens to literally every existence of life because the final emergent property of energy gradients 100% leads to pure logic machines.
At least Fermi's paradox keeps me from truly believing it.
alchemyzach · 35m ago
And so, all the humans on earth swarmed to see what was going on.
The machines did too.
There was one weird thing, though.
The title of the event was rather mysterious.
It simply read…
“Grand Theft Auto VI”
notepad0x90 · 10m ago
Why are emotions so special? they're just algorithms like any other. Emotions aren't what make humans different than machines. feeling something is similar to an LLM model reacting to a prompt a certain way. Just because chatgpt is trained to not "feel" anything (to avoid controversial output) doesn't mean LLMs can't feel things like we do. self-awareness, self-training, adaptability, original thinking, critical thinking,etc.. are different questions. but I see no reason why machines can't receive input/stimuli and react/output by the same way we do because of how they feel about the input.
divbzero · 3m ago
This was unmistakably written by a human.
pkdpic · 26m ago
> Processor Unit 7382-B, "The Origins of the HUMAN Project," Journal of Experimental Intelligence, vol. 5621, no. 3, pp. 42-89, 19754.
The references section in the machine version of the story linked at the bottom is excellent. Nicely done all around, really enjoyed reading this thank you for writing and sharing <3
thomasfromcdnjs · 1h ago
"Written by a human [0]"
I've been playing around with this on my own blog.
I'd like the blogging community to have a consensus on a nice badge we can put at the top of our blog posts, representing who/what wrote the post;
- human
- hybrid
- ai
Some might hate the idea of a fully "ai" post, and that's fair. But I like to sometimes treat my blog as just a personal reference, and if after a long day of chasing an esoteric bug down, I don't mind an AI just writing the whole post and I just press publish.
This adds, a reference for me, more data for AI's to train on, more pages for people to search and land on.
Easy disclaimers for human, AI or hybrid content:
https://disclai.me/r (Oddly enough I built this AI citation tool with exactly those 3 categories a couple years back. Could use some tweaking of course, but I’m very open to suggestions.)
lvturner · 1h ago
"Summarize my sleep deprived, insane ramblings, in to a cohesive document that I can reference again in the future, or use to communicate this issue to others in a more digestible format than I am currently capable of producing"
I think the AI generated document is far better than me ultimately forgetting it in many cases.
thomasfromcdnjs · 1h ago
Aha fo sure.
I'm thinking of writing an MCP server that does this, just takes my night of vibe coding and recent commits/branch etc
Then just cobbles it into an AI post and adds it my blog under some category.
burkaman · 1h ago
I think I would still call that a hybrid post. Fully AI would be if you contribute nothing except the topic and tell the AI to research and write the whole thing.
abetusk · 59m ago
Ironically, there is an organization called OpenHumans.org [0].
When we have a problem such as "why do humans exist" I like to think of it in terms of probabilities. Every possible cause has a non zero probability. For example, even something religious people would believe in such as Adam and Eve were created by god would have a non zero probability. The idea would be to create a convergence diagram of sorts with all sorts of possible events with a score assigned to each. From gods of various religious creating humans, to alien species from another galaxy sending unicellular life to earth to an asteroid carrying chemicals needed to make the first cell, I would love to see someone use all these GPTs and put together the most comprehensive probable cause of existence ever investigated
l33tbro · 1h ago
Doesn't really make much sense. It states that this is a purely mechanistic world with no emotion. So why would a machine be "bored" and wish to create a human?
disambiguation · 1h ago
My headcanon is that "boredom" and "fear" are probabilities in a Markov chain - since it's implied the machine society is not all-knowing, they must reconcile uncertainty somehow.
l33tbro · 47m ago
How would a machine know that it doesn't know?
pazimzadeh · 1h ago
yeah, more on the environmental constraints and where the machines even come from would be nice
> There is no emotion. There is no art. There is only logic
also this type of pure humanism seems disrespectful or just presumptuous, as if we are the only species which might be capable of "emotion, art and logic" even though we already have living counterexamples
IAmGraydon · 1h ago
Disrespectful? Of whom? It's a work of fiction. There's really no need to find something to offend you wherever you look.
actinium226 · 26m ago
You lost me at 'rumors spread', machines wouldn't spread rumors!
wagwangbosy · 10m ago
This idea that machines cant have "emotions" is ridiculous.
sidkhuntia · 9m ago
Can you explain why so? What are your thoughts on this?
_def · 1h ago
The concerns of the machines read very human. Why would they bother? Also the end didn't really land for me. I guess AGI realized what was going on?
goggs · 1h ago
feels like something out of a ted chiang story
caseyy · 46m ago
It's missing a dash of contemplative philosophical anxiety for a proper Ted Chiang story. But close, indeed.
yoko888 · 1h ago
That idea gives me a strange mix of chills and wonder the thought that we were sent here just to see what we’d become, without ever knowing we were being watched.
I’ve already signed up with my email. I want to see where this story goes next.
alganet · 1h ago
Honestly, it reminds me of "All Tomorrows" by C. M. Kosemen.
The "emotions" part is kind of tongue-in-cheek. I think emotional responses are one of the more mechanical parts of a human being.
Ability to demonstrate empathy: that's a good human trick. It can sort of transcend the hard problem of consciousness (what is to be like...) by using all sorts of unorthodox workarounds on our inner workings. It must have been very hard to develop. It doesn't always work, but we'll get there eventually.
edit: fixed book and author name to proper reference
lvturner · 1h ago
"[0] The machines wrote their own version of this story. If you’d like to see what they’re thinking, and how they plan to deal with the AGI announcement, you can read their accounting of events here."
Although I can't...
"Unfortunately, Claude is only available in certain regions right now. Please contact support if you believe you are receiving this message in error."
I remember living in Scotland as a child, without access to satellite TV, causing me to miss out on many large pop-culture moments (The Simpsons, Friends...) and constantly hearing "Except for our viewers in Scotland..."[0]
Getting access to the internet, for me was antithesis of this, freedom of information, free sharing -- finally! I could not just be following curves but be ahead of them.
Alas in the past few years we really seem to have regressed from this - now I can't even view text due to regional locks.
That humans, like all previous animals, are just a stepping stone and there is actually no avoiding machine overlords. It actually happens to literally every existence of life because the final emergent property of energy gradients 100% leads to pure logic machines.
At least Fermi's paradox keeps me from truly believing it.
The machines did too.
There was one weird thing, though.
The title of the event was rather mysterious.
It simply read…
“Grand Theft Auto VI”
The references section in the machine version of the story linked at the bottom is excellent. Nicely done all around, really enjoyed reading this thank you for writing and sharing <3
I've been playing around with this on my own blog.
I'd like the blogging community to have a consensus on a nice badge we can put at the top of our blog posts, representing who/what wrote the post;
- human
- hybrid
- ai
Some might hate the idea of a fully "ai" post, and that's fair. But I like to sometimes treat my blog as just a personal reference, and if after a long day of chasing an esoteric bug down, I don't mind an AI just writing the whole post and I just press publish.
This adds, a reference for me, more data for AI's to train on, more pages for people to search and land on.
[0] https://notbyai.fyi/
I think the AI generated document is far better than me ultimately forgetting it in many cases.
I'm thinking of writing an MCP server that does this, just takes my night of vibe coding and recent commits/branch etc
Then just cobbles it into an AI post and adds it my blog under some category.
[0] https://www.openhumans.org/
> There is no emotion. There is no art. There is only logic
also this type of pure humanism seems disrespectful or just presumptuous, as if we are the only species which might be capable of "emotion, art and logic" even though we already have living counterexamples
The "emotions" part is kind of tongue-in-cheek. I think emotional responses are one of the more mechanical parts of a human being.
Ability to demonstrate empathy: that's a good human trick. It can sort of transcend the hard problem of consciousness (what is to be like...) by using all sorts of unorthodox workarounds on our inner workings. It must have been very hard to develop. It doesn't always work, but we'll get there eventually.
edit: fixed book and author name to proper reference
Although I can't...
"Unfortunately, Claude is only available in certain regions right now. Please contact support if you believe you are receiving this message in error."
I remember living in Scotland as a child, without access to satellite TV, causing me to miss out on many large pop-culture moments (The Simpsons, Friends...) and constantly hearing "Except for our viewers in Scotland..."[0]
Getting access to the internet, for me was antithesis of this, freedom of information, free sharing -- finally! I could not just be following curves but be ahead of them.
Alas in the past few years we really seem to have regressed from this - now I can't even view text due to regional locks.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7scMC7YSDQ