#moravecs

[twiglet192]

Great Sci-Fi Novels 6. Dan Simmons's 'Ilium'

Rewriting the Gods. Dan Simmons’s ‘Ilium ‘is a sprawling, genre-blending epic that reimagines Homer’s Iliad through a futuristic, science-fictional lens. Set across multiple timelines and locations—including a terraformed Mars and a post-human Earth—Ilium weaves three major narrative threads together. Fig.1: The Greek gods resurrected Thomas Hockenberry, a 20th-century Homeric scholar. The…

[psikonauti]

Dietrich Moravec (German,b.1950)

Cherry Pyramid, 2020

Acrylic on canvas

[arinewman7]

Dietrich Moravec

[ab3lixa]

just thinking about this track of the shining opera. ooooh what could've been..... im dead

[htsdfferent]

❛ if i didn't know any better, i'd say you were jealous. ❜ lol spencer .

a scoff is answer enough in his mind. besides, why should he waste precious time with such a ridiculous notion. he does not feel jealousy -- especially not for someone like her. she is just another notch in his bedpost, that is all she'll ever be. green hues roll in their sockets, as he pours amber liquid into a crystal glass. there is no need to answer her statement with real words. he knows it is simply a way to get him riled up. he won't fall for it. bourbon pours down his throat, before he's letting the glass find its way back on the table. "why would i be jealous, cassie ?" the words tumble from his lips, as he pivots in his place, just enough to catch her eyes. "jealousy would imply i feel something for you."

/ @labyrnthes.

[guy60660]

Jaroslav Moravec | Bromance | Nowness

[czgif]

Vojtěch Kotek in Einstein - Cases of the insufferable genius (Einstein - Případy nesnesitelného génia) S01E01 2020, TV, dir. Vojtěch Moravec IMDB

[whump-a-la]

I create one (1) morally grey mid-thirties Czech scientist who doesn't give a shit about ethics or being nice to his underlings, and what do I get? Brainrot. So much fucking brain rot.

[diracsea]

TIL: Moravec's Paradox

Moravec's paradox is a phenomenon observed by robotics researcher Hans Moravec, in which tasks that are easy for humans to perform (eg, motor or social skills) are difficult for machines to replicate, whereas tasks that are difficult for humans (eg, performing mathematical calculations or large-scale data analysis) are relatively easy for machines to accomplish.

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[psikonauti]

Dietrich Moravec (German,b.1950)

Sliced Quince, 2015

Acrylic on canvas

[htsdfferent]

spotify sentence starter -- 59 ; super graphic ultra modern girl, chappell roan. ( spencer & blair )

❝ you know what they say -- never waste a friday night on a first date. ❞

/ @blueshaded.

[booksandwinter]

★★★★.5 to Marek Dvořák Mezi nebem a pacientem by Martin Moravec

[czgif]

Petra Hřebíčková and Vladimír Polívka in Mothers (Matky) 2021, dir. Vojtěch Moravec IMDB

[sarkos]

The sad thing is the moral of these hypotheticals is to think through the consequences of the project you're working on, and most guys would rather spend millions on Big Bad Wolf seeking missiles after hearing the nursery tales.

(Legitimate discussion of "grey goo", for example, includes limiting conditions Disassemblers could operate in. Roko's Basilisk is just Pascal's Wager if you replace God with Skynet.)

i love most technology catastrophe hypotheticals (Roko's Basilisk, Gray Goo, etc) because dorks who talk about how science and logic are cold and absolute wet their little jeans in their reddit threads about how we need to work on preventing them from happening because they're an existential threat to humanity, while the people who actually wrote the articles these hypotheticals are from are like "by the way, we definitely don't have anything even close to the technology we would need to create something like this, and even if we did we would have absolutely no incentive to do so in the first place."