James Gunn Throws Shade at Cavill’s Muscle Suit | Superman Suit Debate

Comment: They normally dont take these or put these on. Ive seen many materials replicated by tattoos. Id be surprised if they couldnt achieve any material look with muscles showing by using a spray paint like technique instead of fabric

Richard Hanania vs. Liron Shapira — AI Doom Debate

The problem is I don't think much can be done. Because I think there are likely beyond nuke superweapons similar to hypothetical hard nano that are easy to obtain for an asi. I also don't think an asi needs a large data center, that helps, but even one or a few entities qualitatively beyond Einstein as Einstein is beyond a monkey and with all the knowledge of humanity can likely obtain impossible to stop weapons. And I think this is attainable by even lone secret military labs, and such labs won't be stopped regardless of regulations or laws.

Comment on cool gundam ai music video from youtuber FantasyRemaster

 

Comment:  algorithms are getting faster and cheaper to run. But without copyright reform only small clips can likely be made even if it eventually becomes practical to remake the whole series. A full 1 for 1 full series remaster would likely need blessing of copyright owners. But currently the laws say ai gen is copyright free, which is also a problem on its own. We definitely need new laws to enable fair use and sharing of royalties while retaining some level of rights to those that modify and update content with ai tools

IS AGING PROGRAMMED? Aubrey de Grey vs. Yuri Deigin debate at Vitalist B...

comment: one thing is that parasites, diseases, germline mutations accumulate with age, fighting all of these is easiest by killing organism, that is in addition to increased evolvability. Also, the exceptions to the free radical theory of aging were explained away with the membrane pacemaker theory of aging, wherein membrane resilience determines rate of damage accumulation. Evolution determines membrane composition, during Calorie Restriction and similar interventions organism even alters membrane composition in a controlled manner increasing lifespan drastically.

In organisms like insects same genome different epigenetic regulation allows 10x--100x lifespan difference between queen and workers. But even here, it was believed queens of some species might be immortal, but for whatever reason it was found that sequential replacement with clones was easier for nature than actual immortality, the longest lasting queens last like 30 years ageless iirc, with extreme reproduction.

Poking holes in the AI doom argument — 83 stops where you could get off ...

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The issue is whether attaining godhood is possible. Even doom can be reversed.  Godhood means any and all goals trivially solved, god state is unique and convergent omniscience and perfect intelligence with all possible.  Now the idea is what happens in godstate, brain dead cause any orthogonal goal is solved?  Or the Luthor question suggestion takes place?(reference justice league animated series)

Why Different Neuron Parts Learn Differently?

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Ill give a comment regard this.  The apical section is said to have XOR functionality, iirc this means even context input will only activate during correct context, a mechanism may be needed to aid apical synapses gain an edge during darwinian synaptic competition given this.  Still even with this distinct mechanism it is likely coincident activity with neuron activation gives apical groups a further edge.

AI DEBATE: Runaway Superintelligence or Just a Normal Tool?

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Heres the thing fundamental assumptions are being taken into need for factories and permits, this assumes no radical superweapon can easily exist such as hard nano or reality warp.  Because if such are possible unregulated black op labs from govs will bypass any possible regulation.