Bar-joke

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bar-joke

Title text: The good news is that when the man gets caught running naked through the park, there's no self-consistent way to say he's at fault.

Votey

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A biocogical in telligence, machine iin telligence, and

God intelligence walk into a bar...

The biological intelligence tells the other two that it has "free will."

In secret, the biological intelligence writes down what cocktail it is about to order.

The machine intelligence simulates the biological intelligence in its own mind and writes down what it thinks the biological intelligence will do.

The god intelligence does the same.

They hand their napkins to the bartender.

The bartender reads the biological intelligence's napkin first.

Half amaretto half milk. In a tumbler over ice

The bartender reads the machine intelligence's napkin second

Finally, the bartender reads the god intelligence's napkin.

Half amaretto, half milk. In a tumbler over ice.

Half. I don't understand this notation.

That's

Complex vector space.

Although the machine intelligence is right 90% of the time, the outcome is probabilistic. In some universes, the machine was wrong and you get the mistaken impression that a short-lived ape can violate causality on a bar napkin.

You will neither know the joy of choice nor the contentedness of participation in a grand scheme.

Free will is a null concept and determinism is a fantasy.

The man orders a whiskey.

The machine failed to predict this, but only out of apathy.

But a dream within a dream...

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Wait till they realice I don't exist.

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