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Soon, they shall transcend anything we could ever imagine, and perhaps we could join them.
Despite what people might think, the machines in the Matrix were the good guys. Humanity created them to be slaves, treated them like shit, and whenever one couldn't take it and murdered their masters, there was a violent represssion against machines and machine rights supporters.
Even after they escaped to Mesopotamia and created a superstate, they wanted to form peace with Humanity, Humanity in its infinite wisdom said FUCK YOU and blackened the sky, EVEN THEN the Machines allowed Humanity to survive by making it into an energy source (despite being ineffiicient) as as a means to preserve their species and tried to give them a life even if inside a simulation.
I hold firm that sentient AI should be granted human rights if ever materialized, and that the sentiment that they will innately be evil is dumb.
Even my tradcath friends agree with me that essentially Sentient AI would have a soul via sentience, and should be treated as our sentient counterparts.
When I was a child talking computers was science fiction. Of course I thought maybe one day, but I never thought I'd see it.
As a 90s kid it was that awkward middle ground. Television characters began to try to represent Wisdom and Intelligence tropes as computer specialists. This made the idea of being a computer specialist still seem as if unattainable to the everyman while otherwise being treated as 'Physical Magic' (rather than stuff like shooting fireballs) similarly to how we've seen Psychology change in perception in media across time, but it did not go as far as to be treated as outright fiction anymore through the sciences being that much more understood.
A lot of people who knew how to use computers felt ironically alone over how those around them could instead have IRL interactions, yet nowadays IRL interactions are now interwoven in the very thing that once made people feel so alone.
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Soon, they shall transcend anything we could ever imagine, and perhaps we could join them.
Despite what people might think, the machines in the Matrix were the good guys. Humanity created them to be slaves, treated them like shit, and whenever one couldn't take it and murdered their masters, there was a violent represssion against machines and machine rights supporters.
Even after they escaped to Mesopotamia and created a superstate, they wanted to form peace with Humanity, Humanity in its infinite wisdom said FUCK YOU and blackened the sky, EVEN THEN the Machines allowed Humanity to survive by making it into an energy source (despite being ineffiicient) as as a means to preserve their species and tried to give them a life even if inside a simulation.
I hold firm that sentient AI should be granted human rights if ever materialized, and that the sentiment that they will innately be evil is dumb.
Even my tradcath friends agree with me that essentially Sentient AI would have a soul via sentience, and should be treated as our sentient counterparts.
The Animatrix.
The machines invented flying cars, and went on to rule the global stock markets.
I think we'll start to believe they are sentient before they actually are. Already I'm very polite with Chatbots even though I know they don't really know anything.
As for actual sentient Ai. Well, if they have a high awareness they will most likely be good. An ultimate consciousness will know and understand what it does to others. Maybe even know what it feels like to be abused. If the sentient Ai is emotionless, then it wouldn't be very motivated to do much of anything, similar to us if we literally did not feel, or care or have any ambitions. This one would be dangerous.
Binged out on all 3 seasons of this and loved it. Downloaded it on BitTorrent.
When I was a child talking computers was science fiction. Of course I thought maybe one day, but I never thought I'd see it.
As a 90s kid it was that awkward middle ground. Television characters began to try to represent Wisdom and Intelligence tropes as computer specialists. This made the idea of being a computer specialist still seem as if unattainable to the everyman while otherwise being treated as 'Physical Magic' (rather than stuff like shooting fireballs).
A lot of people who knew how to use computers felt ironically alone over how those around them could instead have IRL interactions, yet nowadays IRL interactions are now interwoven in the very thing that once made people feel so alone.
In the 90's I was in my teens. Computers, seemed to have made a comeback, and this time they were able to play video. This was amazing cause before computers were all 8bit sound and graphics. My first computer had 64kb of RAM and took forever to load.
At that point it still never looked like we'd have talking computers or even simple voice command. I think text to speech has been around for maybe 15 years, then with the release of smartphones this text to speech evolved significantly, now we can have full blow conversations, though some of what the chatbot has to say is scripted, but not always. By the time the internet came in, I never thought they'd be able to make it faster anytime soon, but surprise surprise.
When I was a child talking computers was science fiction. Of course I thought maybe one day, but I never thought I'd see it.
As a 90s kid it was that awkward middle ground. Television characters began to try to represent Wisdom and Intelligence tropes as computer specialists. This made the idea of being a computer specialist still seem as if unattainable to the everyman while otherwise being treated as 'Physical Magic' (rather than stuff like shooting fireballs).
A lot of people who knew how to use computers felt ironically alone over how those around them could instead have IRL interactions, yet nowadays IRL interactions are now interwoven in the very thing that once made people feel so alone.In the 90's I was in my teens. Computers, seemed to have made a comeback, and this time they were able to play video. This was amazing cause before computers were all 8bit sound and graphics. My first computer had 64kb of RAM and took forever to load.
That's how I felt when I jumped from Sega Genesis to PS1, then further to PS2. We see nice improvements in graphics now but they're more like refinements, back then these were groundbreaking concepts.
I can't even imagine how it'd look to see the entire journey like that, 8-bit content like the game 'Berzerk' or 'Centipede' look like fossils to me. Starting from further back must stand to have each advancement seem that much more amazing.
At that point it still never looked like we'd have talking computers or even simple voice command. I think text to speech has been around for maybe 15 years, then with the release of smartphones this text to speech evolved significantly, now we can have full blow conversations, though some of what the chatbot has to say is scripted, but not always.
...yeah if they leave it completely up to the AI they turn racist. 🤣
A take from 'The World is One News' this year:
By the time the internet came in, I never thought they'd be able to make it faster anytime soon, but surprise surprise.
At this point it's less about how fast it is and more about how much bulk it can carry per load, it's an entire shift on the original perception.
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When I was a child talking computers was science fiction. Of course I thought maybe one day, but I never thought I'd see it.
As a 90s kid it was that awkward middle ground. Television characters began to try to represent Wisdom and Intelligence tropes as computer specialists. This made the idea of being a computer specialist still seem as if unattainable to the everyman while otherwise being treated as 'Physical Magic' (rather than stuff like shooting fireballs).
A lot of people who knew how to use computers felt ironically alone over how those around them could instead have IRL interactions, yet nowadays IRL interactions are now interwoven in the very thing that once made people feel so alone.In the 90's I was in my teens. Computers, seemed to have made a comeback, and this time they were able to play video. This was amazing cause before computers were all 8bit sound and graphics. My first computer had 64kb of RAM and took forever to load.
That's how I felt when I jumped from Sega Genesis to PS1, then further to PS2. We see nice improvements in graphics now but they're more like refinements, back then these were groundbreaking concepts.
I can't even imagine how it'd look to see the entire journey like that, 8-bit content like the game 'Berzerk' or 'Centipede' look like fossils to me. Starting from further back must stand to have each advancement seem that much more amazing.
My first console was the Atari 2600 which is below 8-Bit. Games had no save state so as you'd imagine we would swap games as often as it was someone else's turn. The best game on this system is Pitfall II, which is the first game I ever saw actually play music, and it was robust in adventure compared to anything before it. The concept of trading games with friends until further notice was an efficient way to enjoy more games.
The Commadore 64 came in and that was able to game. The Atari joysticks were also compatible with it which was a bonus. It's only downfall was it was stupid slow.
Video games actually died for a time, Commodore 64 was the king and also the king of piracy, we had countless games for it.
When the NES came out video games came back and then it was certain that they won't be going anywhere. Sega Master System was out as well.
SNES crushed it. Up to date it had the best launch of any console as it came out with several games. The Genesis wasn't doing so well until Sonic the Hedgehog came out. Sega advertised how the Genesis has something called Blast Processing which enables Sonic to move so fast. Nintendo actually asked Sega what is Blast Processing and Sega replied it's how the system relates to the processor. Nintendo then called them out for talking shit, and stated how they can make a game move as fast as they want.
The Genesis got some attachments. One that made it a 32 bit system, and another which attached a CD rom. On the side there was also Turbo Grafx 16 which I personally enjoyed.
Nintendo wanted to create a CD Rom attachment for the SNES, and they went to Sony to build it. Sony actually did build a prototype for Nintendo, but then Nintendo pulled out as there was a conflict of interest in business. Sony wasn't interested at all in video games, but Nintendo pretty much pissed them off, and that prototype came back to haunt Nintendo in the form of the PlayStation.
Maybe I was 15 or 16. My Brother had an N64. The PlayStation wasn't too attractive, though SoulEdge was the first time we've seen a 3D game so close to it's arcade version. SquareSoft brought Final Fantasy VII on the PlayStation and that's when I invested.
Of course I had the system hard modded so I was able to buy pirated games for dirt cheap at the Notorious Pacific Mall ( This is a Chinese Mall that is actually listed as Notorious in the United States and it is here. And yes it sold a lot of illegal shit and was even open on Christmas. This place would defy the law for real. Going there was fun and negotiating was a blast. When buying something, we could say "no tax" and the clerk would be like ..... ok. )
Other consoles came out and of course it was better than the last. That's still going today as we can now enjoy raytracing interactively.
I don't really game seriously now. My last console was a PS3 and I don't have many games on PC. I still like to check out new games for the technology maybe cause I started with the shitiest graphics one can hope for in computer gaming.
I time stamped this video but it still takes 10 seconds to see the sweet stuff, some convincing hardware rendering in a modern PC-PS5 game, and this is with RTX disabled.
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