On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 04:40:53AM +0200, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 04:05:52PM -0700, r.stricklin via cctalk wrote: > > > > > On Sep 23, 2026, at 3:37 PM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > However, looking from certain point of view, Keigo was polite. I > > > wonder, how it subscribed to the list? Was it by its own initiative > > > (volition, if you prefer) or has it acted on somebody's order? > > > > > > Speaking only for myself, I don’t care how it occurred or how > > "polite" it was, I would prefer it were forcibly unsubscribed. > [...]
Oh damn. Some of you certainly remember that I like to respond to myself. > And of course there are people pouring vitriol on AI, which does not > make much sense, if you ask me. Want to pour some? Pour it on the > humans who set up AIs and made them act wrongfully. I made it sound as if I criticised your stance, but I am not, really. The above paragraph was not meant to harass you. To each his own choices. [...] > why we are not going to slow down today, so this is it. SHTF, probably > one day in our life (which, given we have members of advanced age, is > not very long from now, eh). But I do not blame our older members, even jokingly. On the contrary guys, live long and prosper :-) . Chances are, we might be all helped by new developments in the AI. But somewhere on this road I personally smell some shit event. I do not mean nukes or WW3. I think we are going to have few more options. Some worse. [...] > [1] What would such discussion look like? I have no idea but I hope I > would recognize one when I see one. With caveat that we are rather > late to such talking (20-25, remember?). I assume AI is here to stay, > no matter if it is real or only marketing invention. It is also going > to be developed in more and more advanced shape and with more > unwanted########questionable side effects and uses. I think we are at > certain limes and after crossing it every and each our favour will be > returned, because why not? OTOH, it is one of the Graal that generations of computer user dreamt of. Too bad its development is not quite in their hands. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] **
