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A Batman researcher said 'gay' in a talk to schoolkids. When asked to censor himself, he quit in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] winky88@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago

Penwing

Should there be an "ALL OFF" button to instantly shut down all these new AI Defense bots that the Military in the US want to build and deploy in the thousands? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] winky88@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Rather than be used for war, they’ll be used for threats of violence and propaganda

Surveillance is the word you're looking for. Take all those NSA pipelines and run them through an AI and BAM, you've got your "terrorists".

AI will be downfall of our technological society, but not because of killer robots and malevolent systems. It's going to make everyone completely and utterly incompetent at everything in life.

Why do so many Lemmy instances use weird TLDs? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] winky88@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

AKA former user

Why do dinosaurs have big heads and tiny arms? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] winky88@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago

100+ million years qualifies as right in the middle of "for long" in my book. The fact that an asteroid or comet of biblical proportions wiped them out has nothing to do with evolutionary effectiveness. Most of the animals that did survive either A) lived in water or B) lived underground.