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#41
Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...
Last post by Zanza - November 13, 2025, 01:29:41 PMAnno 117 has launched today. I will try it now, looks spectacular if you like that kind of game.
#42
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by Valmy - November 13, 2025, 01:01:56 PMYes. And there doesn't seem any way to stop powerful institutions from having this power. Either all powerful governments or all powerful techlords. Either way seems equally bad.
#43
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by DGuller - November 13, 2025, 12:52:24 PMWhat scares me most about AI is not the possibility of it becoming more intelligent than human, but even what it can do without reaching that level. I don't see people appreciating the fact that AI can access and process way more information than a human can.
The product of intellectual work is connecting the dots; it's a combination of having the dots, and finding the right connections between them. An AI which is not as intelligent as a human can nevertheless connect way more dots, simply because it starts with more of them. A human spy can't listen to 100 million wiretaps at the same time and synthesize them, but an AI might be able to. Even a pretty dumb one can identify people unhappy with the regime, so that the regime can administer corrective measures.
The product of intellectual work is connecting the dots; it's a combination of having the dots, and finding the right connections between them. An AI which is not as intelligent as a human can nevertheless connect way more dots, simply because it starts with more of them. A human spy can't listen to 100 million wiretaps at the same time and synthesize them, but an AI might be able to. Even a pretty dumb one can identify people unhappy with the regime, so that the regime can administer corrective measures.
#44
Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic
Last post by Sheilbh - November 13, 2025, 12:51:31 PMDidn't watch it as a class but my French teacher lent me a copy of La Haine when I was 16 to convince me to do French AS and I think just flag there was more to France than Amelie 
It worked. And I often think about it because it also actually really kickstarted my interest in film - within the year I was watching the Mark Kermode curated season of Iranian films on Film 4 (back when that was just what Channel 4 became when it was late).
It worked. And I often think about it because it also actually really kickstarted my interest in film - within the year I was watching the Mark Kermode curated season of Iranian films on Film 4 (back when that was just what Channel 4 became when it was late).
#45
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by Jacob - November 13, 2025, 12:22:51 PMThat seems another iteration of the "where in the deployment of AI do we leave room for human agency and responsibility" issue we're facing.
It's one thing if we let AI fuck up domestic traffic, draft legal advice based on spurious precedent, encourage people to commit suicide, or generate facts that makes the population more ignorant.
It's another thing entirely if we let AI trigger armed conflict with another state.
It's one thing if we let AI fuck up domestic traffic, draft legal advice based on spurious precedent, encourage people to commit suicide, or generate facts that makes the population more ignorant.
It's another thing entirely if we let AI trigger armed conflict with another state.
#46
Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic
Last post by Syt - November 13, 2025, 12:15:21 PMWe watched Peter Jackson's Braindead at school with our English teacher. Though granted we were all around 16-18 at the time. 
#47
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by The Minsky Moment - November 13, 2025, 12:01:55 PMI do think the scenario is right to identify US-China competition as a danger point, but not necessarily for the reason that it fuels the development of a RL Skynet Super AI. I suspect the immediate danger is more that great power competition leads militaries to rapidly deploy and incorporate "task AI" capabilities into every aspect of military operations, planning and platform design. An effect being to reduce the time available for crisis management and increase the likelihood of escalation, out of fear of adversary AI assisted pre-emptive strikes.
#48
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by The Minsky Moment - November 13, 2025, 11:55:44 AM2 key assumptions are that
Existing AI models, given sufficient computing power, can and will speed up the pace of AI research and development in an accelerating feeback loop
Existing LLM models can somehow through that process bootstrap into an AGI.
Existing AI models, given sufficient computing power, can and will speed up the pace of AI research and development in an accelerating feeback loop
Existing LLM models can somehow through that process bootstrap into an AGI.
#49
Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic
Last post by Maladict - November 13, 2025, 11:04:48 AMYeah, they typically were all highly inappropriate 
#50
Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...
Last post by Razgovory - November 13, 2025, 10:41:20 AMQuote from: Tamas on November 13, 2025, 04:06:32 AMPretty cool story here: https://www.reddit.com/r/EU5/s/9TLQrns0nlThat is really awesome.
As I understand the guy built a super powerful Venice, having his market control Italy and Central Europe, to the degree that the AI Italian small states all turned themselves into cities and specialising into what sold on the market, importing food from the other parts of the Venetian market. Which worked swimmingly until Austria and Bohemia started some huge war devastating food stockpiles to the degree that Venice was paying like 800 a month for food imports at some point, going from being absolute awash in cash to almost going bankrupt.
Pretty cool.