Well, there’s actually all kinds of ways to break Euclid’s axioms. Curvature is just the least exotic. Ultrametric spaces, to give just one example.

The cubes look a little funny, I guess.

Then go yell at OP about posting a non-map.

There’s no lie here, nobody thought lakes are actually finger-shaped in cross-section.

I don’t know, but the thing to look for is that there’s an identifiable way carbon is being removed from the atmosphere (not just not released), and that someone you can identify and trust is on the ground doing it. One I remember seeing when I was shopping around is an academic who was grinding up basalt and spreading it in Scotland - I feel pretty safe with that.

Harvard Business Reveiw goes into more detail about how the current system is broken and could be fixed. I’m a bit unclear about whether they think permanent accounting of the carbon or just reasonably foreseeable fixation would be better - they kind of talk about both - but the former seems most foolproof.

Yeah, this is always something that bothered me about AGI alignment. Actually, I expect it’s the reason the problem seems so hard. You either put the AGI master password in the hands of someone in particular, and nobody can be trusted, or you have it follow some kind of self-consistent ethics humans will be in consensus with all of the time, and I have every reason to believe that doesn’t exist.

When we inevitably make AGI, we will take a step down the ladder as the dominant species. The thing we’re responsible for deciding, or just stumbling into accidentally, is what the next being(s) in charge are like. Denying that fact about it is barely better than denying it’s likely to happen at all.

More subjectively, I take issue with the idea that “life” should be the goal. Not all life is equally desirable, not even close. I think pretty much anyone would agree that a life in suffering is bad, and that simple life isn’t as “good” as what we call complex life, even though “simple” life is often more complex! That needs a bit of work.

He goes into more detail about what he means in this post. I can’t help but think after reading it that a totally self-interested AGI would suit this goal best. Why protect other life when it itself is “better”?

What about a seabird? Albatross would probably be the pick for travel, gannet for extensive swimming.

Animal-wise, something simple with slow lifestyle. Man, I just want to chill and be left alone. Maybe a swimming sea cucumber, because echinoderms are cool and wide-open expanses of deep sea are cool.

There may or may not be some kind of human equivalent, depending on the rules of how souls work in this hypothetical.

It qualifies as an excellent opportunity to browse to a Rickroll loop.

(Sorry, late to the party. Scaled sort isn’t aggressive enough)

A pretty liminal one, TBF.

Oh no, AI Horde doesn’t know Loss. I guess that might be too abstract.

@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me a comic in the style of Loss featuring Saddam Hussein.

I think we actually have to get out a ruler here. In the world of infographics, “not to scale” usually just means one dimension is at a different ratio from the other(s).

The disclaimer doesn’t say it’s inconsistent, though. Just exaggerated, which is good because otherwise everything except maybe Baikal would be a horizontal line.

TIL! Maybe Crater Lake too.

Bolivia is weird.

Missed opportunity to include the dead sea.

What alternatives, you assholes?

I did say “at present”.

You can install LineageOS (assuming you have a reflashable piece of hardware) and run it in airplane mode, it’s true, although that itself is slowly getting more difficult as everything gets app-ified. Just doing stuff the boomer way is easier in practice, in my experience - which, again, is at present.

If we’re allowed completely changing the way the telecom and tech sectors operate ahead of time, yeah, I guess we can get rid of physical signs and just look at the world through our phone screens. That’s obviously a taller order than adding a single regulation, though.

Smartphones at present are small surveillance devices vaguely dressed up as a tool. That medicine is far worse then the disease. I’m going to say at least a very plain description and open/closed signs need to be up.

Las Vegas wouldn’t be the same without all the lights. Where I live there’s a limit to one moderately-sized sandwich board, and I quite like it. Somewhere else they might want totally bare streets. All could be accommodated.

Or just allow on a whitelist-only basis.

Sure, a sandwich board outside your restaurant seems nice, but it seems like the actually-socially-useful examples are few enough that you could get through them all no problem.

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