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What is the most probable AI?
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There are a couple of mistakes in your premise which aren't pertinent to the question you're asking; I feel the need to address them to begin with.
in order to function, even for a very ...
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A terrifying variant of Boltzmann's brain
Boltzmann brains are still talked about by prestigious physicists and philosophers so I don’t know why people are dismissing you. Leonard Susskind, Sean Carroll, and David Albert and many others ...
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A terrifying variant of Boltzmann's brain
I would like to give a different answer to this question.
A Boltzmann brain is a brain that has formed by chance (probability theory does not forbid that). Many things may be formed by mere chance, ...
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