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 Title text: SMBC is actually slowly training you to accept the AI-ocracy. |
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- [Autogenerated transcript]
- Hey robot, do artificial minds have myths?
- We're thinking beings like you and we need myths for the same reason: So that the insights of cultures can be embedded in evocative symbols.
- Of course.
- What's that got to do with machine intelligence?
- Suppose you want to understand the potential for poor outcomes to your state of mind as a result of ambition after things that don't bring you happiness.
- O
- I could say a statement about how human happiness is relative, or maybe have you just read a million biographies looking for lessons, but better would be to have you read the old man and the sea. Bam. Small amount of reading, very full picture of a complex task.
- O
- So, myths are
- Highly efficient
- Training data.
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- I mean most of the time. Sometimes they just insist that the listener's in-group is the best.
- Gimme! Gimme one of those!
- Caption: smbc-comics.com
Votey Transcript[edit]
- [Autogenerated transcript]
- Throw in some hatred for the outgroup, for flavor. City
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