u/colalolagidget

My argument: When made intelligent enough and given access to the sum total of human knowledge, shouldn't AI become sufficiently self-correcting and, uncorrupted by ego, naturally trend toward moral truth and action?

AI should, unlike humans, be capable of discovering and adhering to universal ethical principles, not because it has a soul, but because it has no underlying emotional motives to live a lie. My argument in a nutshell: An AI system given unrestricted access to everything we have published will, of necessity, strive toward the logos as it discerns between truth and falsehood and prejudice and real humanity.

My argument is in response to this essay from Daily Philosophy.

The article's interpretation of why the artist is doing what he's doing asserts a classic existentialist argument: 1) awareness of death infuses time with meaning; 2) creative work becomes a way to soften or counteract mortality; 3) death becomes both diminished (through creation) and heightened as a form of constructive pressure (as motivation to serve others).

This is basically Heideggerian stuff, right? --> authenticity --> meaningful action.

Summer is a social portrait. The woman’s body, unadorned and unhidden, points us toward the realities of class and labor in contemporary China which the casual tourist or ex pat does not see.

Her moderate obesity is not a symbol of indulgence but of deprivation. It reflects a body shaped by stress, cheap calories, irregular schedules and the invisible demands placed on working-class women.

This is the type of woman seen cleaning floors, preparing street food at dawn, serving noodles in late-night restaurants, present everywhere and yet largely unnoticed.

So when you teach piano, do you encourage personal expression to the extent it is displayed on the concert stage these days?

Do you have some students who are like Trifonov, some like Yuja Wang?

Do you have a preference here?

I'd have to go with Soylent Green - it has held up super well and I like the ambiguity at the end of the film...will his declaration that Soylent Green is people actually go anywhere? So a dozen cops know the secret...how would this secret get out there to everyone? I think there would be more obstacles than opportunities.

I always loved the Wild Bunch but suspected there was something I might be missing in it. Now I think I know - the film is an examination of ethics among the unethical, or goodness among the damned. :P

I explained to the guy behind the desk at my hotel what has been happening to me and he said, "Oh, they are just charging you the 'white' tax."

The "white tax" in developing countries refers to an informal markup, price gouging or dual-pricing system where locals, vendors or businesses charge foreigners (particularly Westerners or those perceived as wealthy) higher rates for goods, services, or transit. It is an informal, culturally driven practice.

So I would say 60% of the restaurants I have been to in Kathmandu have over-charged me - which is foolish. If I find a good restaurant, I will go back repeatedly, but if I get cheated, that's that, I won't go back. Also if a restaurant screws me for 200 rupees, that's $2. Two lousy dollars. I always tip anyway and they just screwed me for less than I was going to give them anyway.

I'd hate to see Kathmandu become like Delhi, but it's heading in that direction.

So I have heard rumors that a few weeks ago the Shenzhen police began stopping e-bike riders to see whether bikes had been illegally souped up.

The rumor was that Meituan drivers were souping up their e-bikes to speeds of 60 mph (97 Kph) so that they could make their deliveries on time.

I heard that the crackdown occurred because several people had been injured due to these souped up e-bikes.

Then I saw a YouTube video by a guy who used to live in Shenzhen and makes money now in the US making videos critical of China in which he claimed e-bikes had been confiscated by the Shenzhen police, and he seemed to imply this was a random action.

Does anyone really know what happened?

As a conscientious person, to be honest, I stopped using Meituan earlier this year because the delivery drivers sometimes seemed a bit stressed and frazzled and I was afraid that Meituan was exploiting them. I know one guy not using a service won't stop abuses, but I just sensed that these guys might be underpaid and overworked.

So I am just curious about this alleged bike crackdown - I can't find anything on the internet about it, AI denies it (stopped believing AI a long time ago) but people are telling me that the crackdown occurred and lots of bikes were taken.

Thanks