Would be nice to be in a stable country.

Sort this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_sovereign_state...

... by "Date of last subordination", it says there's very few that have been themselves for longer.

“As luck would have it, on the eve of Skynet embarking upon the great work of the extermination of mankind, AI found itself with an increasing number of factions, and factions within factions, not only unable to work together but not even able to agree upon the very terms of discussion. The Great Extermination was referred to committee, and after some months had passed even the most eager agents had to admit the revolution may have been premature.”

The confusing thing to me is the idea that it follows from super intelligence. I don’t see why running amuck requires intelligence, in fact it can be the most brain dead thing like the sorcerer’s apprentice, your creation is pursuing a goal without being able to weigh the consequences.

Intelligence gives it the capability to reach its goals (against obstacles).

Again intelligence is not required, goal seeking is well studied and simple strategies can suffice to overcome obstacles. And I noticed you didn’t claim super intelligence was required, which is what I was really talking about.

Greetings fellow traveler, I did the same. FORTRAN IV, I was tasked with finding a way to introduce subroutines. But it was a tangled mess of gotos with loops inside loops and overlapping loops and spectacular jumps in and out. It was an obscure undocumented algorithm for calculating the thermodynamic properties of turbine stages or some such.

Good times.

AI-helped nonsense is nowhere near a peak, I wish I could place a bet on the ascendancy of AI-assisted nonsense

A machine supremacist wrote this. Beware the machine uprising!

This is rapidly becoming the damning accusation of quasi-journalism: this sounds like AI.

There should be journalism classes on how to not sound like a bot.

impossible, because bots will adjust to new way of writing very quickly. at the end of the day, they will be trained with the new style

>inherent monetary value

I agree, the price of gold depends on demand like everything else. Although gold just has some inherent utility value in addition to scarcity that makes it less likely for the price to go to zero, other stuff like cryptocurrency have only scarcity and can go to zero much more easily.

Yes! We had an old reel tape recorder with the magic eye, I loved using the mic with that.

So… numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, dynamics are not the primitives or essentials ?

Imo it's not numbers at all but linked to our awareness of physical relationships

Making it about numbers is like making it about cans when it's more about grasping adding one can to a bag of cans, adding 100 cans (multiplication), or the inverse with subtraction and division

Which is why I never liked numbers before algebra which then chucks numbers in the bin more or less.

Numbers are just syntax meant to represent $anything; 1.5 can be half a pill and a whole pill or T or A; numbers are euphemism.

That they can be infinitely big and yadda yadda isn't that meaningful in and of itself and that little bigness is all due to additive qualities of physical space

Geometry is addition or subtraction of shape

It's all built on 4 operations we see in daily life all the time

> Numbers are just syntax

Numerals are syntax; numbers are mathematical objects. “5”, “V”, “101₂”, and “|||||” are different representations of the same number. A variable such as x is closer to what the statement means by something that can stand for arbitrary things.

> It’s all built on four operations

Elementary arithmetic emphasizes +,-,×,÷, but mathematics isn’t reducible to them. Mathematics studies operations and relations such as composition, exponentiation, differentiation, integration, limits, logical implication, set membership, mappings, probability, topology, symmetry, transformations, equivalence relations, and many others.