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Edited by Fighteer on Dec 15th 2022 at 9:55:58 AM
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Itβll screw with your bank account and your lights. Mess with your plumbing.
This is how we get people moving to deserts away from computers.
What Tuckerscreator is referring to is known as Roko's Basilisk. It's a...rather stupid hypothesis...that when humanity achieves the singularity, the Super-AI will create copies of the minds of all people who didn't contribute to its creation as punishment for not creating them. It will then torture these copies in some form of computer simulation. It argues that these copies are as "real" as the person they're copies of-essentially a sort of mind upload to virtual hell.
This hypothesis is easily disproven in several ways. In particular: An ASI cannot just create copies of a person's brain, copies of a person's brain are not the same person necessarily, and this behavior makes no sense.
"Any campaign world where an orc samurai can leap off a landcruiser to fight a herd of Bulbasaurs will always have my vote of confidence"
I'm Sad Frogerson.
Huh, now I want to see a version of Age of Ultron where Ultron's wants to become this super AI and thinks that anyone who doesn't contribute to help it deserves to suffer and die.
LessWrong members will lose their shit watching this version of the film. 
But we already have an example of that, with the Kree Supreme Intelligence. We only need a movie that explore Kree society.
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Random question, has Ghost Rider shown up yet?
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Is it cause he's a skeleton that burns people's souls
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Disasturbator
yes hes too OP
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also a skeleton so not good for a certain market
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Surrounded by weirdoes
He appeared in Agents.
Wake me up at your own risk.
Disasturbator
there are no agents of hydra
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Queen of Good Things, Honest
Idle thought.
In The Avengers (2012), Captain America said Phase 2 would be that S.H.I.E.L.D. uses the Tesseract to make Hydra weapons.
But he was wrong. Phase 2 was actually that Hydra uses Stark tech to make S.H.I.E.L.D. weapons. And then later, Phase 2 was that Stark uses Hydra tech to make Thanos weapons.
Steve was so close, but his proper nouns were way off!
Edited by TobiasDrake on Sep 10th 2019 at 4:15:18 AM
My Tumblr. Currently liveblogging Haruhi Suzumiya and revisiting Danganronpa V3.
No, Phase 2 was Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Ant-Man.
Steve was way off in his predictions.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
I'm Sad Frogerson.
Stop acting like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't exist! Lord knows the films do that enough on their own.
In fact, they announced a Ghost Rider show for Hulu earlier this year. Now, I highly doubt it'll crossover with the Disney Plus shows or the movies, but still.
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there is no shield
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Funny but not helpful
Ultron does that villain thing where he hijacks every channel to deliver an ultimatum to the world
But he just tells people to support his Kickstarter
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The Head of the Hydra
What's he selling?
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
I'm Sad Frogerson.
Ultron becomes a copyright bot who wants to destroy humanity because they're violating Youtube's Terms of Service.
Edited by alliterator on Sep 10th 2019 at 3:41:16 AM
Funny but not helpful
If you back at the $1 level you'll be put on a list to kill last, after everyone who didn't back at all.
At $5 Ultron or an Ultron drone will personally give you a highfive before he kills you.
At $50 you get a "I gave Ultron money and all I got was this absolutely rad t-shirt" t-shirt.
If you back at the $500 level, you get a mini-Ultron drone who will drink all of your pepsi and call you mean names.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
I feel like there should be an option to be put at the front of the list as an alpha tester. Feedback from early adopters is important if Ultron wants to get this project off the ground.
Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Sep 10th 2019 at 7:48:12 AM
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
It's gonna be him reciting "poopity scoop".
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Sep 10th 2019 at 4:54:41 AM
somewhere someone is genuinely freaking out about that
How is an AI going to torture someone anyway,they an't got arms..
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