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(-) History / Deportation / WW2 

On this day, the 19th of September, 74 years ago, almost 2000 officers of the Danish police force were forcibly deported and sent to Buchenwald... including my grandfather.

On this day, the 19th of September, we say: **Fuck nazis**.

Arr..! A merry Talk Like a Pirate day ta ye me hearties! Haharr...! ^-^ ❤️ ☠️

(+) Fetish / Kink / Piercing 

So a while ago I went & got myself a tongue piercing... because I really like the look...!

Well... I told one whom I had a thing for about it & they kinda took it a step further... they suggested I exchange the stud for a big weighty ring... ^-^;;

Now I don't want a big hole in my tongue please... but I must admit that idea really did strike a cord... to have one's speech restricted & slurred by one's Master or Mistress... not to mention *other* potential uses...

Considering fetish toot... fetoot? Fetootsh...?

(~) TV program / Suicide theme 

Tonight is the last episode of the documentary series that I watched and had me crying a lot last week, themed around the taboo of suicide, called "I want to die". I'd like to watch it, but it'll probably end the same if I do.

(+) Philosophy & AI 

So in conclusion, I postulate that rather than manifest itself as a mere mathematical formula, the function which defines ours as well as the states of an AI must instead manifest itself as a dynamic self-learned fact function, similar to what you see in fact based programming, where if the fact "it is hot" is fulfilled, then we turn down the thermostat.

Then we got Khora. ❤️ ^-^

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(+) Philosophy & AI 

An example of this is that it's possible to be simultaneously happy & sad, or hot & cold, depending on defining factors, thus the reward does not obey a normal scalar or carthesian format. That means that rather than manifest itself as a mere matematical function, what we're working with here is something significantly more fluffy, but luckily in an AI we do not actually create that said function... but how does it look...?

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(+) Philosophy & AI 

So satisfaction is bound to the specific reward, but may be a factor leading to happiness, thus happiness can be seen as a desirable "good feel" state, created in order to optimize positive inputs of a variety of sources in both good & bad circumstances. It is a natural process created to try to obtain the highest state, but additionally it is not mutually exclusive with other states.

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(+) Philosophy & AI 

You could say that rather than being just a result of itself, happiness is in fact a function of multiple functions, with varying requirements, thus happiness might very well be a result of satisfaction along with other factors.

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(+) Philosophy & AI 

This for instance begs the question of "what is happiness?", because you could define it as fulfilling such a function to the fullest, however happiness has so many complex factors included in its creation & sometimes require more or less to be achieved too, thus it changes, so perhaps "satisfaction" would be a better term for what would fit an AI...?

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(+) Philosophy & AI 

By that definition, emotion is in no way a thing exclusive to us. We already know it's bogus when people claim animals don't feel anything, but we now postulate that in order for an AI to function, emotion is a necessary consequence of that process.

Now these emotions might be different to ours, but that does not make them less, they're simple made up in a different way.

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(+) Philosophy & AI 

Now here we made a short pitstop, talking about insanity effects in video games, as well as their implementation & thus effect on immersion, but then we moved on to emotions & AI, because what is emotion...?

Emotion is essentially a reward for fulfillment of a certain function, thus you can say that emotion itself is very much needed as the feedback in order to make a reward function... function. This goes for us, for animals as well as for AI.

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(+) Philosophy & AI 

Now it might not be true that all vegetarians are hostile, but that does not change the fact that it's true to this person.

So essentially what is truth? We have the global truth, which can be hard to define bue is the true truth & then we have the personal truth, which may be flawed, because it is unbendable unless the person in question accepts their truth being altered. If they won't listen, it won't ever be changed.

"Damn you personal truth...!"

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Now pairing evolution with "intelligent" immediately gets the keyboard warriors out of their chairs, because they immediately assume you're talking about the religious "intelligent design" pseudo-science thing. This is cultural assumptions.

Similar to this is vegetarianism, where telling someone you're vegetarian immediately puts them on the defensive, because they automatically assume that you're one of these hostile ones bashing others over the head with it.

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(+) Philosophy & AI 

That then brought us on to evolution. Many regard evolution as a random process, but while driven by randomised factors, evolution itself is an intelligent process as, much akin to domestication & similar to that you also see the same, namely unintended changes, or changes which happens outside the desired goal of the process. Essentially the process might have optimized for one aspect, but get another couple more along in the baggage along the way.

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