NeatNit

I'm not really in the know but isn't that already a thing? I'm pretty sure it is.

that's just a free bidet

Yeah, but it's not good infrastructure. It's not sustainable, it's privately controlled, and it's destined to be enshittified. Infrastructure needs to be well thought out and publicly regulated, AI is the opposite.

Infrastructure is all about unbelievable feats of engineering that are taken for granted. Sewage systems, running water, electricity, roads, public transport, cars, physical mail, and grocery stores/supermarkets are all unbelievable achievements that we all take for granted to varying degrees, and that's just off the top of my head. IP networking is just more of that. Absolutely crazy, and by design we don't think about it.

But AI (also depicted in this gif) is not in the same category IMO, for a lot of reasons.

Interesting take. I like it.

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https://xkcd.com/763/

I wanted to downvote you for failing to pick up on the sarcasm, but then you went and did all that math that I was too lazy to do and I ended up upvoting you instead. Damn you!

Either this is faked for the meme or something is very very wrong.

There's no probabilities involved. The machine predicts the future perfectly.

The lever is designed in such a way that it can only be operated by pulling.

Yup, that's the premise. It's just an annoying thought experiment. Your actions physically can't change the past, but somehow they still do, because the past was decided based on a perfect prediction of your actions. I was just playing devil's advocate. I agree with your answer 100%.

"Now" is the moment where you decide whether to pull the lever. As is conventional in trolley problems, this moment can last anywhere from 2 seconds to hundreds of years :)

Alas, it is a perfect simulation of our universe with perfect knowledge. Machine learning was not used in the construction of this machine. It can't technically see the future, but it can predict anything perfectly except quantum phenomena. It has been demonstrated in countless trials that it can accurately predict human choices and decisions.