PonyOfWar

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

First up, go to one of the available help centers and register for welfare. This will give me a monthly income that's enough to cover most of my daily needs. Housing will be more complicated. The state would cover my rent but I'd first need to find a suitable flat in the first place. If I'm lucky, there is social housing available. If not, I'd have to sleep on the street or in shelters for a while. No idea how I'd handle that. Once I have a roof over my head, I can start looking for a job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

First off, I don’t think depression is a good measure of intelligence.

Exactly. Which is why we shouldn't judge an AIs intelligence based on whether it can develop depression. Sure, it's feasible it could develop it through some other mechanism. But there's no reason to assume it would, in absence of the factors that cause depressions in humans.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

That's exactly my point though, as OP stated we could detect if an AI was truly intelligent if it developed depression. Without hormones or something similar, there's no reason to believe it ever would develop those on its own. The fact that you could artificially give it depressions is besides the point.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Give it the right dataset and you could easily create a depressed sounding LLM to rival Marvin the paranoid android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Not sure about that. A LLM could show symptoms of depression by mimicking depressed texts it was fed. A computer with a true consciousness might never get depression, because it has none of the hormones influencing our brain.

[–] [email protected] 131 points 9 months ago (22 children)

The word "AI" has been used for way longer than the current LLM trend, even for fairly trivial things like enemy AI in video games. How would you even define a computer "thinking on its own"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Something like 100k€ would enable me to do all the traveling I want to do and simultaneously save up enough money for a comfortable early retirement. Currently I'm focussing more on having a job that isn't soul-crushingly stressful and full of overtime though.

[–] [email protected] 218 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Because religion provides comfort, community and a meaning to people's existence that goes beyond "we were born of chance on an insignificant rock somewhere in the universe".

(I'm not religious BTW)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If I go to bed early, I have to get up and pee at some point during the night. And since it's way too cold, I'll usually lie awake for half and hour before I can actually get myself to leave the bed.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Many of them, but one show that people sometimes nag me about is "Friends". Not going to watch it either, doesn't seem even remotely worth my time.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's because of ONE UI, they're not part of vanilla Android.

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