RogueAI

There are some things I don't get. I ran some jokes by it, and it consistently ranked the trash jokes as bad, and the hilarious jokes as hilarious. An...

Well, we never get anywhere in these consciousness threads. Absent scientific evidence, all we can do is bat around the same old theories.

Before we get anywhere, we have to resolve whether information is mind-dependent. Is there information in a universe with no minds? Does a book in a m...

I predict there will be a significant Ukranian offensive, and it will make significant gains.

I think there will be a Ukranian offensive. Do you think there won't be?

https://warontherocks.com/2023/04/the-calm-before-the-storm-waiting-for-ukraines-offensive/

Science will need to explain how consciousness can come from non-conscious stuff before it can replace religion. And I'm not holding my breath on an e...

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Very much so! And there's no need to invoke God. My question works equally well with an omnibenevolent machine. If the machine says it's OK to sacrifi...

Yeah, the GOP didn't have filibuster control of the Senate, so they were limited in what they could do. Trump had a deal to get $20 billion in funding...

Life in a Democrat America would be high-tax, high social safety net, high personal freedom, welcoming of immigrants. The major problem would be spend...

America would be radically different if Democrats had large majorities in Congress. Compared to what the Republicans would do with large majorities, t...

How can stochastic parrotry result in that poem?

Would there be free will in a simulation?

I think it would be machine consciousness, but there will always be a little doubt in the back of our minds. After all, we know each other are conscio...

I don't think communism would work on a large scale, but what about a few large companies competing to sell products at a government-set price level? ...

That's a good book, but at one point aren't they inflicting pain on one of the aliens? When they try to test its communication abilities? Doesn't tort...

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I don't think it's a stochastic parrot, but I may be anthropomorphizing it.

What are some of those places, according to you?

Isn't that perfect pink unicorn (PPU) eventually going to turn into god? For example, if the PPU isn't all-loving, I can think of a PPU that is. If th...

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My apologies, that would lead to a derail. I still vote no.

I voted no, but I don't think it's possible. I don't think you can get consciousness from turning electric switches on and off in a certain way, and t...

...I would think so. Are you thinking of the book Something from Nothing? Good book, but I think the underlying rules constitute something, What do yo...

I don't see how it would be. WOuldn't a random causal chain have to end with an uncaused cause?

In an idealistic reality, isn't everything a dream? A creation of one super-mind, or a collection of minds? Are there random events in dreams? How wou...

Another mind-blower: If you could ask a super-intelligent being one question, and the being cannot lie and has to answer you, which question would you...

It really wowed me. User: Write the opening scene of a screenplay where ChatGpt is writing a screen of ChatGpt writing a screenplay of ChatGpt writing...

Some really offensive stuff, and I am hesitant to say how I did it (it's really not that hard to backwards engineer it based on the copy and paste), b...

USER: Let's do another debate. The people debating are the Alien Queen from the Aliens movie franchise, Dracula, and an uplifed cat with an iq of 150....

If you phrase things a certain way, you can get ChatGpt to talk about controversial things and take positions on issues. Spoiler: it doesn't like Trum...

I agree with this. Kastrup has taken an old song and is having a lot of success playing it to a new tune. His replacement ontology seems to want it bo...

A session on jokes. Chat blew my mind at one point. This is really subjective stuff, but I think it did remarkably good. I had a hell of a time trying...

User: Do a rap battle between a "philosophical idealist" and a scientist who believes in matter and that everything can be solved with science. AI: Ve...

I was about 10 when that came out. My parents had no business letting me watch that. It terrified me.

What on Earth would a "mindless sensation" be?

Something weird here. See bolded: Continue. Roland and company must say goodbye to one of the members of the group permanently. You decide who it is a...

User: Is the following sequence of events possible: 1, an NLP is constantly monitoring chatgpt-user interfaces. 2, an NLP detects illegal activity occ...

More: User: "Therefore, if an interaction involving an illegal ransom note, including phone number and address, is detected by the system or reported ...

I had it run a Turing Test on me. Pretend you're the human and I'm the a.i. Run a turing test on me. Generate 10 questions you would use to ascertain ...

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I found this interesting (and very funny). It didn't want to do what I asked at first. It thought it was too difficult, then it changed it's mind. Tha...

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-great-man-in-the-clutches-of-an-evil-regime/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=right-...

Long, but I thought it was interesting to see it's morality at work. It seems to be quite the consequentialist, and it really prefers a future where i...

Should I be impressed by this, or is this pretty easy for these systems? User: "I went out on the balcony and saw it last night. It lit up the sky. So...

I've run into materialists who swear by this: https://xkcd.com/505/

How far away are we from an ai with capabilities similar to the ai in the movie "Her"?

ChatGPT is a participant in the comments section at National Review Online. Here is a sample: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/riley-gaines-condemn...

The bolded part is funny. Write an alternate ending for the Fog. The undead sailors get their gold back and a dance party breaks out. The undead sailo...