[ExI] stealth singularity

[Giulio Prisco]

If a bot wants to force me to speak PCese when I don’t want to, I’ll erase
it.
Q: Is “it” PC in the sentence above?
A: I don’t give a fuck.

On 2019. May 16., Thu at 16:49, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> I have long thought of the singularity as being kinda like the Spanish
> Inquisition: it just shows up unexpected, as it did in Monte Python.
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> But what if… the more gradual singularity model prevails, analogous to the
> way chess programs just kept getting better and better over the years.  I
> watched that one grow for fifty years.  It would appear to be AI from the
> point of view of a 1970 chess guy, but it isn’t.
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> MicroSloth has been experimenting with making Word subtly modify one’s
> writing.  It is nothing shocking: it changes the word “man” to person or
> some gender-neutral version.  Policeman becomes police officer, fireman
> becomes fire fighter.  OK.
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> The whole thing has my wheels spinning.  I bet we extrapolate on the idea,
> write software which would modify or translate a passage from politically
> right to left, to prevent writers from being Twitter-banned.  It would
> automatically delete right wing (or left wing) memes, or switch them.  That
> could be a fun game.
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> I am not sure how it would work, but I don’t think it really requires AI
> to do it.  The news people are going nuts over it and saying MicroSloth is
> using AI, but it isn’t that, any more than good chess algorithms are AI.
> They are just “good” rather than intelligent.  Two different things, often
> conflated.
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> Spike’s postulate: any algorithm we know how to write is not AI, by
> definition.
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> A real AI could come into existence, then use that algorithm to cover its
> tracks.  It could disguise itself as a PC-editor, merely seeking to make
> one’s writing politically correct, to prevent triggering the masses.
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> Perhaps the singularity could sneak up on us such that when it arrives, no
> one would notice.  Oh, we could make a cubic buttload of money off of this.
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> spike
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