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[-] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 37 points 1 year ago

Computer, determine how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie pop and if any owls try to interfere with the experiment kill them on sight.

[-] Reverendender@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It’s 1006. Source - young me

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
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[-] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Run simulations on what the best system of governance would be. You’d want to test across different cultures/countries/technological eras to get an idea of what the most resilient would be, maybe you’d get different results depending on what you were testing. Even the definition of “best system” would need alot of clarification.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

An AI would decide that an AI-driven dictatorship would be most effective at implementing whatever goals you gave it.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You’d obviously need to give it constraints such as “administrable by humans” and if you’re looking at different technological eras, AI wouldn’t be available to something like 99% of humanity.

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[-] LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Why bother with simulations of governance systems and not governance itself at that point?

I do understand "the risk" of putting AI being the steering wheel but if you're already going to be trusting it this far, the last step probably doesn't actually matter.

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If the simulation is actually perfect, then it isn't a simulation anymore and whatever would have been unethical in a non-simulated context would still be unethical.

[-] Gadg8eer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I tailored my answers to that assumption. It's a reality, even if a heavily-manipulated one, and the person(s) inside the simulation are as real as we are, given the description of "perfect simulation".

[-] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It would be interesting to test how quickly you could completely dismantle a society’s order and infrastructure into total national collapse using a variety of pressures and tactics and rate each country with a score on how resilient they are

Edit: and might as well figure out the cure for cancer while we’re at it

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

The fastest way has probably been economical destabilization, as it's the easiest way to use the feelings of people. Then one could gain status in a country and exploit legal systems to gain dictator status. Would work with some systems, and some are more resistant to arbitrary exploitation now. You could also combine the peoples mistrust with external pressure such as threats of war so that they try to overthrow their own government and fail to create a working system again.

[-] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Good, and for Canada we could just remove Tim Hortons

[-] Gadg8eer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

Simulate one human life, from beginning to end, in a way that allows unethical experiments to be dismissed as recurring nightmares by the individual, and not cause permanent damage to this simulated person. When their life ends, I'd arrange to talk to them, explain everything, apologize for the necessity of the experiments, and offer him immortality and/or freedom with no strings attached. He can get a biological or robot body, or stay virtual, but it's not up to anyone but him/her/? at that point.

I'd be fine with my life being an experiment under those circumstances as long as the results were put mostly to saving or improving lives, but I'd never be willing to put someone else in that position if I didn't; if you couldn't find a person like myself in real life with that opinion on the possibility, it's unjustifiable. If, however, you engineered their life just enough to strongly encourage that level of altruism, and made it comfortable and not dehumanizing when not involved in an experiment as well as having a ban on cruelty and gaslighting in doing the experiments, and apologize for having to resort to these measures at all, I could see the person not being overly upset.

Whether it meets the code of ethics for scientific research is another matter.

[-] The_Cleanup_Batter@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Perfect simulations? So Laplace's Demon? I suppose it would be most useful in doing a little bit of viewing the future. If you could call that useful. The existence of Laplace's Demon basically disproves "free will" and anything viewed in the future would be set in stone and unavoidable. HOWEVER it could also potentially be used as a remote viewing device for any events that have already happened. Period. Yeah let's see what the dinosaurs actually looked like. Sure we can take a firsthand look at the originating events of any major religion. Yep we can literally view any major crime exactly as it happened.

Depending on who has access to it, personal privacy becomes literally nonexistent.

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Not to worry, only five trillionaires will have access and I'm sure their motives will be completely altruistic.

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I'd ask it how to reverse entropy.

[-] OZFive@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I FOUND THE ANSWER, BUT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LIKE IT

[-] Gadg8eer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Calculating... 404, problem "Entropy" not found. Please check the new information from the James Web Space telescope for possible reasons.

(look up "Trillion Year Old Universe" and realize that if true, that's just how old the currently observable universe is, and reality as it is could be eternally going through cycles of stellar death and birth and would have always existed with no beginning)

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[-] 15liam20@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Computer. Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

A man of culture.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Everything exactly the same, except everyone has big naturals.

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[-] ThatHermanoGuy@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

Create a villain capable of defeating Data.

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

It's all fun and games until someone uncouples the Heisenberg compensators.

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[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Ways to make our future look more fantasy like such as bioengineered dragons, power crystals and cheat codes to reality in the form of magic

[-] Gadg8eer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Only if I get to live in a treehouse that's bigger on the inside, become my persona character, and dress like 9/11 never happened and Y2K aesthetic continued until '08 or longer.

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[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Run an infinite number of universe simulations at a speed of one vigintillion years per second (that particular number is useless unless attempting to calculate the heat death of the universe, like the number of subatomic particles, or even quantum particles in the universe is several orders of magnitude smaller than 1E^126. So every 1 to 2 seconds I would have simulated an infinite number of universes from Big Bang to The Heat Death of The Universe, so Holy Mother of Batman levels of atrocities and death going on here until I brute force an answer), until a species ends entropy, or attempts to escape the simulation. In the second case, end the simulation, in the first print out a translated tech manual and all relevant scientific and mathematical materials that would be needed for us to understand this technology within one decade.

This is the infinite monkeys and typewriters thought experiment taken to its logical conclusion. I don't suspect that I'm the first to think of this, and do suspect I am not part of the prime universe.

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I’m not very creative. I’d use it to enrich myself and my family. However, I’d also use it to solve issues like diseases, cancer, battery tech (fast charge/long life), engines for space travel, more efficient solar tech, materials sciences, etc. I’d be rich AF. Doesn’t mean I can’t move the world forward in a beneficial way with my greed.

[-] Gadg8eer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Well, at least you actually want to have a beneficial legacy. That's better than we can say about Zuckerberg, Trump or Musk.

[-] MidwestComrade@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I'd make it simulate the world exactly how it was and watch real-life historical events unfold with unprecedented detail

Imagine being able to literally watch and spectate events in world history

[-] SecretPancake@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I'd simulate myself working while I watch TV.

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[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Probably just run the whole universe backwards through time from its current state until it reaches some unchanging state, and then run it forwards again from the beginning.

In time lapse of course, I am a mortal after all.

Should be able to answer a metric shitton of astrophysics questions, at very least, which do happen to be some of the absolute most-asked and hardest-if-not-impossible-to-conclusively-answer questions in science. Period.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I'd resurrect the dead by simulating perfect copies of them. Now no one ever has to say goodbye ever again 😊

[-] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

I mean... conversations with Einstein, DaVinci, heck... not even dead people. With Obama! Eminem! @queermunist!

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd totally simulate myself. As far as I'm concerned, a copy of myself is as legitimately "me" as my flesh. There's nothing that makes the simulated @queermunist less real than the one that works for a living making car parts.

We'd probably fight constantly, it'd be great lol

[-] Gadg8eer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I'd upload everyone. I'd also give them something for their trouble, since apparently all religious people and all hardcore atheists hate the sci-fi story I wrote where humanity's descendants resurrect everyone who ever died that was ever part of the Homo genus; the body their heart truly desires would be their VR avatar, though with delicious ironic caveats because if what your heart truly desires is money or power or fame over all other aspects, and that's been detrimental to others, deserves to be trapped as a virtual solid gold statue or somesuch forever for being a selfish fuck.

Basically, what if heaven and hell were not places, but literally whether being your true self truly makes you happy? That hell is if you needed to rethink your shallow, fake or otherwise hollow-feeling lifestyle but didn't do so soon enough and now you're stuck looking and feeling like what you slowly come to hate about yourself or at least who you were when you died.

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[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, and I was thinking about this mostly in the realm of biology/psychology/sociology but anything goes.

[-] blargerer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

If everything is being perfectly simulated, most things would still be unethical.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

As boring and basic as it sounds, what would society be like if we were all born and aged like the movie version of Benjamin Button.

That, or simulate a world where the average human height is about 2 feet just for fun.

[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

See exactly how many ways there are to skin a cat. The same one. Repeatedly.

[-] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago
[-] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

yes officer this comment right here

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