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becquerel 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Case That A.I. Is Thinking

A system having terminal failure modes doesn't inherently negate the rest of the system. Human intelligences fall prey to plenty of similarly bad behaviours like addiction.

josefx 8 months ago [–]

I never met an addicted person that could be reduced to a simple while(true) print("fail") loop.

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