A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes
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Absolutely genius.
What percentage of Reddit comments are bots? I'd be curious to know. SaaS and Lambda functions and and APIs are all like very complicated neurons that link together to form this world wide web of interactions.
I've wondered if an approach to the AI alignment problem is really to see that the entirety of all the computers in the world are a giant brain that is continually self-improving. Phoenix Wright bot is one neuron, like any other. And so to align the world AI, you have to align the culture that makes the AI. And so, basically, anything that one does to improve the culture in a sense improves AI.
In fact, I'd argue it's already here and already taken over.
Most of us are now enslaved by screens and the Internet, we are addicted to them, even if we don't want to admit it. Some might say these things are run by humans, but are humans really in charge? Can any single person turn off the internet or prevent everyone else from using their phones/screens for hours every day? Is even a group of people capable of doing it? And even if they could, would they?
Maybe if humans went extinct, the Internet and screens would disappear, but that just means there's a symbiotic relationship, not that we are by any means in control.
Google "ICANN"
https://deadline.com/2020/07/internet-down-outage-cloudflare...
https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-serv...
To me it seems like the opposite, the outage was untintentional and then humans worked really hard to fix it. It's almost as if we were the cells of the body of this super-intelligence.
Why are you reading that from what I said? I wasn't responding to the superintelligence thing (as I hadn't quoted it), and that seems like the weirdest reading from what I responded to.
The claim was: "Can any single person turn off the internet or prevent everyone else from using their phones/screens for hours every day?"
And I responded with proof that that is marginally possible. Probably not a single person, but a well-trained well-connected group could do it very easily.
That outage example shows that people will immediately act to restore, preserve and expand the system, never destroy it.
'The system' that you're referring to in most likelyhood is just an aspect of science fiction, as such there is no provable threat from the internet, and it doesn't make any kind of capitalistic sense to turn off the infrastructure upon which rests, for example, the stock market, the banking infrastructure, a small portion of the communications infrastructure.
Now, if there were a provable, tangible threat to these systems remaining, and it was seen to likely be a GH-0 'Dead Greenhouse' scenario[0], then I think it would push people to take action.
But I don't think you can claim that "people will never turn off the internet, ever", simply because as-such they have never done it. With that line of logic the USSR would never have got humanity to space[1].
[0]: http://www.scpwiki.com/k-class-complete-list
[1]: The USSR won "the space race", by getting humans into orbit first (Which is why it's called "the space race" and not "the moon race")
Yes, but we would send in armed troops to stop them and reverse their actions.
I guess your point is the Super Intelligence has fully infiltrated our government, military and law enforcement.
It is far more than just the internet.
> It is far more than just the internet.
Very well put. I guess we've already lost.
You have turned a potentiality for which there is as yet no evidence, into a certainty. A rational mindset in general tends to frown on such things.
[0]: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-d... | skip to "Having safely established Jordan Peterson is an intellectual fraud" for a dissection of his proposed philosophies and why they are suitably shitty.
every time someone tries this idea of training an AI on "the internet" it comes out badly racist / bigoted.
Garbage in, Garbage out.
1) https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...
2) https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/14/lee-luda-ai-chatbot-fa...
...nope, does not qualify. If it cannot manage to replicate itself completely (as in: create another separate 'internet' capable of further replication) it is as good as a single human living on Mars. It's a short ride, one small mistake and goodbye Mr. Superintelligence. (I'm not claiming humans will be able to survive that though.)
Kinda like when after Kasparov lost to Deep Blue, there was a thought for a while that chess tournaments would include humans working with a computer model to help them make decisions. For some time a human working together with a computer to make decisions was superior against a human or computer alone -- this hasn't been the case for a while now as chess models advanced.
Maybe we need a Slack app to make these images for each message?
Nintendo DS ports were the first one releases in the rest of the world.
BTW, I am a great fan of the series, really recommend it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap...
The conviction rate in Japan is over 99% -- going to "trial" is essentially the same as being found guilty.
The prosecuting attorneys have a lot of discretion over what is prosecuted, and are effectively de facto judges. They may decide to simply not prosecute a case if they feel "character, age, environment, gravity of the offense, circumstances or situation after the offense" makes it unnecessary.
So it's easy to imagine there might be some with quite an ego like Edgeworth or Von Karma -- and a protagonist like our heroic defense attorney would be quite the unusual attorney, indeed! I loved the games even without knowing any of that, but that really makes them all the more poignant and funny for me.
However, that's not all there is to it. You're still innocent until proven guilty in Japan.
There's also probably more in common with the japanese justice system and the US system than different. In practice, the majority of cases in both don't go to trial. In japan, the prosecution will just not prosecute any case they don't think they'll win (and have broad leeway to do so). This results in a 99% conviction rate because, well, there's no reason they can't just drop any case without rock solid evidence. Even in cases where they're confident the suspect is guilty, but they don't think they have enough evidence, they may opt to just drop the case.
In the US, similarly, most cases don't go to trial. The vast majority are also ended under prosecutor discretion, via plea bargains. Both in the US and Japan, most cases skip the proper court system due to the prosecution having power to do so. It's just in Japan, the prosecution also has power to drop the case, while in the US the prosecution can only skip the courts if they get a plea deal, but not if the suspect keeps pleading not-guilty.
Japan has laws requiring evidence in addition to a confession due to understanding that police sometimes force confessions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap...)
In america it's routine for people to be convicted on nothing other than a suspect agreeing to a plea deal even though they didn't do it. "You can get 1 year in jail and get back to your family if you take the plea, or you can risk 30 years in jail if you keep saying not-guilty" isn't at all unusual in the US system, especially since a cop's word is often enough for a guilty sentence.
I'd be happy to be wrong on any of he above details if anyone has separate experience, understanding, or sources.
All that being said, I'd much much rather be arrested in Japan than in the US.
For instance, when applying for a promotion, I've heard that in Japanese culture it is common to get pre-approval from various parties beforehand so that it is ensured before a formal/public application is made; this way, nobody is disgraced by being turned down. Not sure how true that is. But it could apply to the justice system in a similar way; having a high conviction rate means the justice system is effective, whereas trying someone and not convicting them might make the justice system look bad.
Your article says that a study of every legal case since WWII found that it was due to prosecutors not trying uncertain cases, which would seem to be a good thing for the innocent.
There are criticisms about allegedly forced confessions and such, but that seems to be unrelated to the conviction rate itself.
I said the game was a criticism/parody of the Japanese justice system.
I don't have an opinion on the Japanese justice system. I simply do not know enough about it.
(Admittedly, I did say it was easy to imagine that some prosecutors might have a bit of a "god" complex...)
Also like that it seems fairly easy to modify to use another prosecutor as the second main character. I know who I'd use!
https://computerhistory.org/blog/early-frontiers-for-compute...
It grinds that (all too common) petty drama into sausage.
A blog post on how it was built would be a great follow-up!
Kudos to you, sir
I'd never even heard of the game before this, but the animation/music is hilarious just on its own.