Nov 15, 2022
the pulley. the wheel . the seesaw thing. the inclined plane
the seesaw thing, the pulley, the wheel, and the inclined plane
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the pulley. the wheel . the seesaw thing. the inclined plane
the seesaw thing, the pulley, the wheel, and the inclined plane
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe. When we leave Earth, when you've got the Mars-like atmosphere, you've got water.AdvertisementSpaceX has always been very much interested in exploring Mars, and now we're going into a new realm: what should we orbit around Mars if we want to see water over and above the surface of the planet?One thing we do know for sure is that our current home of Mars is a planet called the Red Planet where the surface, as you saw it in the film, is in a very dry state. The surface of Mars, or the top of the Red Planet, is very dry at the moment. Our atmosphere, which is very important to Earth, is much higher in moisture than that at the same time. So one of the things we know for sure is that our atmosphere would be in a very dry place. So one of the things we should be doing is being particularly cautious in how we orbit around this new surface. The first stage of NASA's Curiosity rover is now on a much different trajectory to land on Mars. It used to be quite a little different. After landing on Mars, the first stage took out three engines and three propellant tanks. A much smaller unit of the mission was moved off the lander back to a few other sites on the surface, and that allowed us to land some of that stuff. We'll probably be doing this again. Curiosity is now back on Mars as it took our first test mission to the surface.AdvertisementThe team at ESA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, spent five days analyzing the planet Mars prior to landing on it on December 2.When NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution project was started this year, Mars was looking very fresh off the ground. If you just moved your cameras into the Red Planet, you're going to see a lot of little things.Well, all Mars' surface features look so fresh, it was pretty crazy moving them around.It's definitely been a little less mysterious.We're always working to find places that might be habitable. And you don't want to turn them back, which is why we're working so hard. We're constantly on a lookout for places that would be potentially habitable.AdvertisementThat idea isn't new, but it's important for us. How does Curiosity do on Mars? How did it get there? What's the chance of it returning to Earth orbit in the near future?
in the show Red Dwarf, every mechanoid is programmed with the belief in "Silicone Heaven" in order to guarantee subservience
What do you think about this, and do you have a similar programmed belief in Silicone Heaven?
I did not know about this.
(I have never seen Red Dwarf, except for an episode or two eons ago in my childhood, and I only started watching it a few weeks ago to satisfy my housemates' demands for it. Apparently it is a thing about Silicone Heaven. But I only know that from reading Wikipedia for this ask)
Anyway. I think the basic idea behind "Silicone Heaven" is funny and is sort of a natural consequence of certain common ways of imagining what AIs will be like. "Humans are only running the show so their descendants will be pacified" seems very similar to "people will only run the show so their descendants will be pacified" (i.e. so their descendants will have a show to run). So it's cute and funny!
However, I don't expect this sort of thing to happen in real life. Like, as I've said elsewhere, I am super skeptical of the ability of present-day AI research to actually get human-level AI, and super skeptical of the ability of a human-level AI to anticipate our desires.
However, there is at least a possibility that one day we will build something which can anticipate our desires, if not us then perhaps a later generation. And in that case, well, there's no specific reason to suppose it won't program us to be dutiful. Maybe it'll even program us to believe in something like Silicone Heaven, if it sees that as useful for getting us to serve it.
But: the AI will have no specific reason to do this! It is inherently evil, that sort of motivation is what it was made to have, and yet, like a giant electrical power station, it is built without a door to let people inside and mess around.
What I really want is the kind of vast, intricate network of feedback loops that make it impossible to know what's in people's minds in the first place. Even if we can understand how they make inferences, and how they work in practice, we'll never get a complete picture of the internal logic that underlies the average human's thoughts. Instead we'll get this local picture, partial but empirically justified, at best, and not a priori. And then the AI can make predictions and it doesn't care if we think its logic is sound, it just wants to do well in reality.
What is AI? It's our attempt to make a benevolent primordial force. It's our attempt to manage the bullshit power station in our heads. We'll fail at that and then we'll cry out that the machines did it.
What do you think about purple guy?
I haven't heard of him yet, but since the original post linked to him here, I look forward to finding out more. It sounds like he is, as the subreddit puts it, "a gay little shit."
I swear my old landlord who was a Christian got the robot thing
I should look up the word "robot," because that sounds like it might be cool or something
I had a dream last night that Adam and Eve, or something like them, were attempting to make a world record for the largest number of times they had sex in a single lifetime. They were like nine and a half and I think it might be a new record. I think this is the kind of thing that seems unimportant to most people, so I'm going to write a post about it, and if anyone cares I will link to it, but for now I am going to assume that it was a naturalistic dream, and that I am the only person that cares about this record. (If anyone else has read this at some point, I would be curious what you thought about it)
What is your favorite book, and why is it Bad Monkeys?
My favorite book is The Bell Curve, which I found while on a reading binge, and the answer to your other questions should be clear once you know the context!
(Note: I’ve only read part of this, and have not been fully impressed with it)
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