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UK<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/uk/9488/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/uk/9488/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Physicists put Schrödinger’s cat in a microwave — and the quantum experiment actually worked <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/QuantumComputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumComputers</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/QuantumObjects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumObjects</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/QuantumStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/QuantumSuperposition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumSuperposition</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/QuantumSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Schr%C3%B6dinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Schrödinger</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/temperatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>temperatures</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a></p>
safest_integer<p><a href="https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/more-drowning-children" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">astralcodexten.com/p/more-drow</span><span class="invisible">ning-children</span></a></p><p>"A person who lives in the cabin and fails to rescue every child seems much less monstrous than someone who only ever encounters the situation once, even though both of them “touch” the situation exactly as much. Still, as the hypothesis predicts, we are less comfortable with this situation than the normal one where you live far away from the cabin and never worry about it - living near the cabin seems to have some moral impact." <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/charity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>charity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thoughtexperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thoughtexperiment</span></a></p>
Seán Fobbe<p>🔔 New Essay 🔔 </p><p>"The Intelligent AI Coin: A Thought Experiment"</p><p>Open Access here: <a href="https://seanfobbe.com/posts/2025-02-21_intelligent-ai-coin-thought-experiment/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">seanfobbe.com/posts/2025-02-21</span><span class="invisible">_intelligent-ai-coin-thought-experiment/</span></a></p><p>Recent years have seen a concerning trend towards normalizing decisionmaking by Large Language Models (LLM), including in the adoption of legislation, the writing of judicial opinions and the routine administration of the rule of law. AI agents acting on behalf of human principals are supposed to lead us into a new age of productivity and convenience. The eloquence of AI-generated text and the narrative of super-human intelligence invite us to trust these systems more than we have trusted any human or algorithm ever before.</p><p>It is difficult to know whether a machine is actually intelligent because of problems with construct validity, plagiarism, reproducibility and transferability in AI benchmarks. Most people will either have to personally evaluate the usefulness of AI tools against the benchmark of their own lived experience or be forced to trust an expert.</p><p>To explain this conundrum I propose the Intelligent AI Coin Thought Experiment and discuss four objections: the restriction of agents to low-value decisions, making AI decisionmakers open source, adding a human-in-the-loop and the general limits of trust in human agents.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/politicalscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>politicalscience</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Benchmarks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Benchmarks</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Validity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Validity</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Plagiarism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plagiarism</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Reproducibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reproducibility</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Transferability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transferability</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Decisionmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decisionmaking</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LargeLanguageModel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LargeLanguageModel</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Algorithm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Algorithm</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a></p>
Marcin Cieślak<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thoughtexperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thoughtexperiment</span></a><br>Trading places:</p><p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy becomes the president of the United States</p><p>Donald Trump Jr becomes the president of Ukraine</p><p>What happens next?</p>
barefootstache<p>A hypothetical scenario behind the anti seed oil movement is that the proponents are being bought off by various <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/lobbies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lobbies</span></a>. This would be seen if the profit margins of non seed oils is higher than seed oils.</p><p>Some examples of a non seed oil come from the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/dairy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dairy</span></a> industry and it seems in general that the global market size of dairy is many folds greater than for seed oils. Additionally, it seems like the dairy industry gets also many folds more subsidies than the seed oils industry. These both statements would confirm the original <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/hypothesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypothesis</span></a>.</p><p>Though if in return the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/subsidies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>subsidies</span></a> <br> for the seed oils industry would increase, therefore providing the dairy industry with cheaper material, then it would create an increased profit margin. Thus questioning the original hypothesis if it is financially driven.</p><p>Alternatively, one could still explain it away as financially driven with the idea of having money now over having potentially more money tomorrow.</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/LifeStyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LifeStyle</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/SeedOils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeedOils</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/AntiSeedMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiSeedMovement</span></a></p>
Robb<p>The Man Who Warned Us Before We Could Listen <a href="https://blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/01/30/the-man-who-warned-us-before-we-could-listen/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">1/30/the-man-who-warned-us-before-we-could-listen/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thoughtexperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thoughtexperiment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>luddite</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a></p>
lily 🌱<p>creature that benchmarks new CPUs exclusively via stockfish 17 and its nodes per second performance <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/thoughtexperiment" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thoughtexperiment</a></p>
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