I think you've entirely missed what I'm trying to say.
If your objective is to expend as little energy as possible, it would be irrational to expand into space - that's a waste of effort.
If your objective is to experience as much of Earth as possible, it would be irrational to expand beyond the solar system - there's nothing there that could aid experiencing Earth.
If your objective is to exterminate all life on Earth, it would be irrational to leave the planet - everything you need to accomplish your objective is right here.
"rationality" is when you understand the impact of your own choices. "irrationality" is when you act in a way counter to your own goals, due to misunderstanding or lack of self-control. Whether one is rational or irrational is entirely separate from what their goals are.
Creating a non-human intelligence necessarily means it might have non-human goals. It is absolutely not the case that those goals would require leaving the planet, or be optimally accomplished by leaving the planet.
In other words, being intelligent does not mean somehow being interested in the same things intelligent humans are often interested in. Your argument is critically flawed because it assumes that only certain goals are "rational goals", when in reality an intelligent being could have any objective, including objectives that are alien to most humans.
"The AI" cannot "refuse" any more than a hammer can refuse. If you use a hammer to kill someone, you commit a crime and the hammer is unprosecuted. If you design a hammer to kill people and then give it away, you are partially liable for the deaths it causes. If you make a normal hammer and someone uses it to kill, you bear no blame.
I don't see why these standards should change when the hammer also emits text messages.
I was a bit upset to see vitriolic opposition online to systemd adding a field to store, entirely locally to a Linux system, the user's age.
I think opponents to these bills frame it as current state vs complete, invasive third-party identity verification. That's a very unfortunate framing because, as you say, it would be possible to take the wind out of the identity-verification proponents' sails by implementing better on-device controls.
That issue cannot be a bug in the game, because the operating system should not allow a game to (by any means) produce that type of behaviour. So it's a bug in your OS, potentially the network card driver.
There are fewer of those on Linux but they still exist.
I'm sorry it affects you directly, but the number of people who live in the whole state of Wyoming is around a half-million (even ignoring "rural"). If every single person in the entire state were affected, that would be 1/650th of the population of the United States affected, to say nothing of the world.
There's just no way it's a significant factor in overall sentiment.
What percentage of people do you think are affected by AI datacenters?
That argument applies better to blast furnaces than to data centers, but I don't see people complaining about steel. Data centers just don't take up much space or power in the scope of industrial manufacturing.
Your other arguments are legitimate, but "it's a waste of electricity" and "data centers make some significant difference to a nontrivial number of people" are not the same propositions.
The IPs are Cloudflare, the TLS fingerprint is uTLS Chrome, and the number of connections with xhttp is the same as your normal browsing.
If you are willing to block browsing all ordinary web sites fronted with a CDN, then yes you can block reality/xhttp. You cannot, however, differentially block it via any of the three things you mentioned.
I will have a stab at legitimately explaining the viewpoint you profess not to understand.
"Institutional" or "structural" racism doesn't just mean racism by one or two people in power. It's the idea that the majority of society demonstrates some kind of racial bias, by whatever means.
Society is made up of people.
One of two things must, logically, be true:
1. A SUBSTANTIAL portion of the people who make up society exhibit some kind of racist behavior, or
2. Structural racism is not a widespread issue
Which one of these two propositions must one believe is likely if one is researching the impact of structural racism? Keep in mind people do not generally don't go looking for things they do not believe exist.
In other words, people don't like other people believing they-en-masse discriminate (even IF they do), so taking actions that only make sense if you think that poorly of the everyman offends them. It's not about what someone wants to be true, it's that investigating implies a level of distrust in society some members of that society find uncivil.
To use a blunt analogy, "why not let me check your underwear to make sure you haven't soiled it? Do you just not want it to be true?".
Okay, understood. You are making a variant of the Chinese Room argument in which you allow some types of computer programs (but not others) to have reason/sentience. I'm not entirely sure what specific lines you're drawing between the programs (what makes a deterministic transformer with sampling temperature zero "not a recording" but a hash table "a recording"?) but that's not super important.
There is nothing wrong about having that philosophy, and I respect it, but personally I think if it's impossible to tell two things apart using any external observation there is not a meaningful difference between those two things. "Smells like a rose" and all that.
Just to make sure I've understood you... Are you arguing that with a set of identically-behaving black boxes, one could be "reasoning" and one could be "not reasoning", and a person would need to look inside the boxes at how they function to decide?
Remember, if the mapping from input to output is identical, there exists no test operating on the machines' output that can differentiate them. You can't tell from "conversing with" a machine whether it is or is not doing what you say around "inspecting" the input.
The paper presents a constructive transformation from any finite-input (finite vocab, bounded length) transformer to an equivalent Markov chain.
Do you have some concrete example of a transformer that cannot be represented as a mapping from inputs to probability distribution of outputs?
I say they're equivalent because it is possible to losslessly convert one to the other by wasting massive amounts of disk space and time.
As a second example proving the point, imagine you sampled a transformer's output for a certain context 85 trillion times, and put the output token frequencies in a table. Repeat for all possible inputs (of which there are a finite number). Then you built literally a hash map looking up the context and spitting out the distribution. That certainly is NOT a transformer any more (it's a hash map!!!), but the output approaches indistinguishability as the sample count increases - if the transformer is reasoning, so is the hash map built from it.
I'm not talking hot air here, they really are provably equivalent because a 1:1, onto mapping exists.
For the record, "X is more expressive than Y" means "there exists at least one thing that Y cannot represent and X can". Nothing to do with size or time.
Both are a lookup table whose key is the entire context window and whose value is a probability distribution for what the next token should be.
You can say the choice of probability distribution in the value is "leveraging the internal structure of the context" or not, but the same tokens in two different orders are two different lookup keys and saying it's impossible to achieve some result with a Markov chain is factually incorrect.
If your objective is to expend as little energy as possible, it would be irrational to expand into space - that's a waste of effort.
If your objective is to experience as much of Earth as possible, it would be irrational to expand beyond the solar system - there's nothing there that could aid experiencing Earth.
If your objective is to exterminate all life on Earth, it would be irrational to leave the planet - everything you need to accomplish your objective is right here.
"rationality" is when you understand the impact of your own choices. "irrationality" is when you act in a way counter to your own goals, due to misunderstanding or lack of self-control. Whether one is rational or irrational is entirely separate from what their goals are.
Creating a non-human intelligence necessarily means it might have non-human goals. It is absolutely not the case that those goals would require leaving the planet, or be optimally accomplished by leaving the planet.
In other words, being intelligent does not mean somehow being interested in the same things intelligent humans are often interested in. Your argument is critically flawed because it assumes that only certain goals are "rational goals", when in reality an intelligent being could have any objective, including objectives that are alien to most humans.