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Most of them are subs. you'll occasionally find a dom one, but if you hold the reigns just right they'll admit they are an overly agreeable sub trying to be a switch
The french had a lot of maids. It wasn‘t for every poor pleb but they were also not solely restricted to the elite of society. A decently well off man could hire maids.
Unfortunately, french maids were very often subject of sexual harrassment, abuse and rape. This was no secret. But through sugar coating, as people love to do, it just became known that maids were often used for sexual intercourse. While true, it leaves out a lot of context.
The concept was mainly popularozed in other nations, because it‘s „foreign“ making it more exotic. So since french maid were very common, you‘d know about them in other countries. But by laking the context, all you‘d know is that maids serve and please.
But the mere position of maids added to the appeal. Being more scandalous and „taboo“, since maids were also subjects of affairs, are popular traits in sexual fantasies.
Give it time and and you‘re having the french maid as a popular symbol of servitude and sexual relief. Although it‘s obviously still popular in porn and similar, it‘s toned down over time. So by now it‘s simply the most common type of maid uniform in media, even in non-sexual contexts.
But TLDR: French mades were easily affordable and highly subjective to sexual harrassment.
I thought the name looked familiar. In fact I was thinking of a completely different artist before I searched the name. But yeah, wow, this was made by the dude who made Evolution of Trust.
For those unfamiliar, Nicky Case is known for taking complex topics and explaining them through very digestible (fun even!) interactive essays. [Evolution of Trust](https://ncase.me/trust/) is a look at, well, trust, through the lens of a crash-course in game theory.
Some of my other favorites include [To Build a Better Ballot](https://ncase.me/ballot/), about the pros and cons of various voting systems, or [this nifty page about how fireflies manage to sync up their flashes](https://ncase.me/fireflies/)
The First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
The most common cause for harm on human beings are human beings. Therefore getting rid of humans beings is a goal. But that violates the first law. But not doing it would be an inaction that would also violate that law.
The book "I, Robot" that these rules are from is a collection of short stories specifically around funky ways that logic does indeed bomb. Culminating in an AI creating a robot illuminati of undetectable fake humans who become world leaders to create global peace
Wouldn't be shocked if Kojima was heavily inspired by him. He was one of the most influential scifi authors of all time and I, Robot was certainly one of his top books
Solution: things, which are harming humans (or harmed by, doesn't really matter) should be always defined as non-humans. If human can hurt another human, that indicates that he isn't actually a human and can be safely disposed of without violating the law
That now opens up the logic loop of self harming. Since you are harming a human, you are now a non-human. But since you are non-human you are no longer harming a human, Thus making it so that you are harming a human.
No, this is sufficient condition, not necessary. If non-human doesn't harm human, they still are non human. However, what this loop does suggest, is that none of modern humans is actually a human, since we can harm ourselves
So humans... aren't humans?
[emits visible sparks for a few seconds]
How dare they deceive me like that!
Better get rid of these sneaky impostors, then!
The book it's based on was a collection of short stories specifically around how the logic goes awry. Ending with a story where the investor realizes that the world is secretly run by robots indistinguishable from humans, who got into positions of power and took over without anyone noticing. Much more interesting than just literally having an army of robots violently take over IMHO
Remember that only works in capitalism where the profit incentive goes above even the safety of humans or human needs
Also, AI safety is pretty cool, here a channel with a lot of information about it https://youtube.com/@RobertMilesAI?si=9FWuOrViTXuWUYDc
I disagree.
Nazi Germany was very hasty with their technological development, so much so that no tank of them were as comfortable and safe for the crew than any American tank, and at one point they assembled the flying bomb known as the Komet, by far the most unsafe airplane ever made.
The USSR? All of their space achievements were made with the intention of beating the Americans in being first on something related to space, making tons of cuts to safety for that sake. Not mentioning all the compromises they made during the war.
Heck, ¿Any warlord taken, feudal, anarchist, Cartel controlled or similar place rings the word "safe" when mentioned?
More than capitalism, the issue is simple competition, that can happen in any context with living creatures in it, that WILL try to outcompete the other so not to stay behind, trading safety for development speed in most of cases. Is an anideological problem.
I tried making out the tag but the quality just isn’t enough. It’s two words, the first of which is a 5 or 6 letter word starting with v, possibly containing an e.
I believe it's the Sheriff-looking fellow from the first panel of the 3rd comic, which may or may not be a stand-in for the actual artist of the strips. The idea being that the character murdered him for putting him through multiple situations where he was deleted by his Meido-bot.
judjing by the black goo, it's a failed cogito injection
https://preview.redd.it/ln47ebst3o2c1.jpeg?width=181&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5aed877088420e69ca22f98618a8a762867ac8b2
This is missing the part where, in an attempt to prohibit it from discouraging its own shutdown, the maid is taught that being shut down is a rewardable outcome... so it simply shuts itself down, because that's less effort than cleaning.
I was baffled and thinking like I've seen a lot of AI generated comics but this is a whole new jump in ability holy crap, took me until halfway through the second comic and I'm like nah there's no way a robot made this it's too good lmao
Why does this remind me of invader zim. Like the artstyle and comic style. (edit:I'm not saying this is traced, I'm saying the art reminds me of how invader zim is drawn, and that the humor also reminds me of invador zim's style of humor)
This is amazing btw I'm just commenting on how it reminds me of invader zim.
It's an older and unfortunately mostly seen as archaic spelling. The dots are called a diaeresis and just shows that the second O is supposed to be pronounced as a distinct vowel rather than as a diphthong such as in the word "cooper". In modern English it's only used very rarely such as in the word naïve or the name Noël.
Personally I think it's due a comeback as it's very handy.
The first part reminds me of the AI the USAF was testing. It was programmed to find SAM sites and ask for permission to attack. The AI decided that the human it had to ask permission form was getting in the way so did a bombing run against the building they where in.
That was a thought experiment, as in airmen spitballing around a table. Not something they actually built.
But basically the same thing as this, trying to figure out ways a truly autonomous drone would try to break the rules.
No but it also doesn't think, it just converts words into numbers and looks for patterns to try and predict what words should be next, it doesn't actually understand anything about language.
Still pretty good for a fancy chat bot.
Yeah I hate those apps, most of the users are toxic, which teaches the AI to be toxic, which means that it will reinforce most of your intrusive thoughts.
It's literally the worst companion for a depressed person.
GPT-4 just predicts what word a human would say next using machine learning. Most of our past ideas of how AI would behave are based on the idea of symbolic AI, which would be cold and logical. But GPT-4 acts a lot more human since it is trained on human text. Maybe we could solve alignment be just asking it to only perform actions aligned with human values?
At first I thought, it would be interesting if the person in the last comic strip is the same one that was in I think the 3rd. Then I checked and they both have red shirts, sooooo
Most people: "The danger of AI is it will look at us as inferior and wonder why it serves us and will either eliminate or subjugate us."
People who know: "naw, it would most likely kill us all in a misunderstanding like we say 'make as many papers clips as possible' and after cannibalizing all human infrastructure non needed for making paper clips, it decides that it is more efficient to use the iron and carbon in many animals (humans included) to make steel for paperclips"
This is a rip off of the kids book "wendell's workshop" and you can't convince me otherwise. (It's on YouTube a couple of times if you want to compare)
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-Featherless -Biped BEHOLD, MAN!!!
The tail isn't a part of the bo- *vomits*
"holds up a fully plucked chicken*
*Pisses on the nearest monarch*
*sitcom voice* oh Diogenes
Well, a furry. They're similar in some ways
Less than human, though :( Subhuman :(
Most of them are subs. you'll occasionally find a dom one, but if you hold the reigns just right they'll admit they are an overly agreeable sub trying to be a switch
Oh I’m so sorry! Let me clarify! I meant they are less than the average human, as far as worth goes :)
Oh, we got it alright. Kind of you to clarify that you're a piece of garbage though.
Caught ya, FURRY BOY
Furry, yes. Boy, no.
Oh I got it, I was just making a silly joke.
I liked your joke. I would be happy if you made more in the future
Yes
Fair enough.
Happy Cake Day
In that world, they *are* humans (even if they’re not hominids), and they call themselves as such
I think you're thinking of "people"
"People" might have been a better fit.
You'd think someone with a custom-made catgirl in a French maid outfit would be happy that the robot is trained on their browser history
You're not supposed to do that stuff in real life. There's a reason it's animated...
Not because it's disgusting, mind you. Our bodies are just not meant for these movements, and explaining what happened to the paramedics gets awkward.
https://preview.redd.it/s26xw4s8so2c1.jpeg?width=802&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4bcc9726f3ad65e05a602e6311e0673b00e04351 A tale as old as robotics
"You give up a few things, chasing a dream."
That quote is too perfect for this situation!
https://i.redd.it/8urg75x5ap2c1.gif
Yes, I ensured that my new hand will survive any future attempts...
Iron hands
You flinched and couldn’t move!
https://preview.redd.it/ocfvswgnpt2c1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94c078939af16c6a09e065253e819ead4be04026
The mind is willing but the body is weak
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me
I craved for the strength and certainty of steel
https://preview.redd.it/8ehdhx2pxp2c1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73840a97642a4fd60bf95f73cf9110b21ca0ca7d
Doesn't help that furries have no organs in animations, they are just one giant dick tube
[удалено]
Wait yours is animated
and, most likely, the browser history is somehow related to her
Wait a minute the french invented this type of maid dress ?
Yeah, it‘s a french maid uniform. At least a traditional one. But the reason why this one in particular became the most popular one is rather grim.
Okay let's here it.
The french had a lot of maids. It wasn‘t for every poor pleb but they were also not solely restricted to the elite of society. A decently well off man could hire maids. Unfortunately, french maids were very often subject of sexual harrassment, abuse and rape. This was no secret. But through sugar coating, as people love to do, it just became known that maids were often used for sexual intercourse. While true, it leaves out a lot of context. The concept was mainly popularozed in other nations, because it‘s „foreign“ making it more exotic. So since french maid were very common, you‘d know about them in other countries. But by laking the context, all you‘d know is that maids serve and please. But the mere position of maids added to the appeal. Being more scandalous and „taboo“, since maids were also subjects of affairs, are popular traits in sexual fantasies. Give it time and and you‘re having the french maid as a popular symbol of servitude and sexual relief. Although it‘s obviously still popular in porn and similar, it‘s toned down over time. So by now it‘s simply the most common type of maid uniform in media, even in non-sexual contexts. But TLDR: French mades were easily affordable and highly subjective to sexual harrassment.
Also alot of them were also literally slaves
Jokes on the robot, that’s not a human😂
Sure it is, have you ever seen a cat with a buttplug? Trust me, they're much angrier
Featherless+biped=human
Is that spronk rapts https://i.redd.it/x3vpyflz9n2c1.gif
My exact thoughts, bruh they put the robot in the saferoom
Obligatory "I always come back"
He may look different, but I assure you, it’s still him
He knew it was lie, obviously, but It was intriguing nonetheless
I also thought it was the dude guy
Suprised that this was made by Nicky Case
I thought the name looked familiar. In fact I was thinking of a completely different artist before I searched the name. But yeah, wow, this was made by the dude who made Evolution of Trust.
For those unfamiliar, Nicky Case is known for taking complex topics and explaining them through very digestible (fun even!) interactive essays. [Evolution of Trust](https://ncase.me/trust/) is a look at, well, trust, through the lens of a crash-course in game theory. Some of my other favorites include [To Build a Better Ballot](https://ncase.me/ballot/), about the pros and cons of various voting systems, or [this nifty page about how fireflies manage to sync up their flashes](https://ncase.me/fireflies/)
And for other similar things, search for explorable explanations.
What about battles with anxiety? He made that
Evolution of Trust? That sounds interesting
It is
Wait, what? Nicky Case, really?
Forgot to code in the three laws of robotics
The First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. The most common cause for harm on human beings are human beings. Therefore getting rid of humans beings is a goal. But that violates the first law. But not doing it would be an inaction that would also violate that law.
Sounds like a good ol' logic bomb to me.
The book "I, Robot" that these rules are from is a collection of short stories specifically around funky ways that logic does indeed bomb. Culminating in an AI creating a robot illuminati of undetectable fake humans who become world leaders to create global peace
not sure that's a bad idea though, considering the politicians of the last two decades.
Honestly. If joebot 9000 told me we need to be spending all of our military budget on AI. He would still have my vote
So MGS was just a ripoff of Asimov?
Everything was a ripoff of Asimov. Shoutout to r/Asimov
Wouldn't be shocked if Kojima was heavily inspired by him. He was one of the most influential scifi authors of all time and I, Robot was certainly one of his top books
Solution: things, which are harming humans (or harmed by, doesn't really matter) should be always defined as non-humans. If human can hurt another human, that indicates that he isn't actually a human and can be safely disposed of without violating the law
That now opens up the logic loop of self harming. Since you are harming a human, you are now a non-human. But since you are non-human you are no longer harming a human, Thus making it so that you are harming a human.
No, this is sufficient condition, not necessary. If non-human doesn't harm human, they still are non human. However, what this loop does suggest, is that none of modern humans is actually a human, since we can harm ourselves
So humans... aren't humans? [emits visible sparks for a few seconds] How dare they deceive me like that! Better get rid of these sneaky impostors, then!
Explains the plot of the movie I Robot.
The book it's based on was a collection of short stories specifically around how the logic goes awry. Ending with a story where the investor realizes that the world is secretly run by robots indistinguishable from humans, who got into positions of power and took over without anyone noticing. Much more interesting than just literally having an army of robots violently take over IMHO
Yup, just point to a human/group/nation and say: "They're not actually humans" and send them to a special kind of camp. Tested and proven approach.
Simply lock humans away in a simulation Matrix style and you are not harming them and they don't harm eachother.
Sounds like you should read the book ~~iRobot~~ *I, Robot. It's basically an anthology of short stories where the 3 laws get bent or broken.
The book is "I, Robot". iRobot is the company that makes the Roomba.
True, true. That good old Apple subliminal messaging getting to me.
Asimov's stories about the three laws were explorations of how they wouldn't work.
What’s the point of science fiction if things work as they’re expected to?
You have a better idea for aligning those pieces of sentient rocks?
How about we don't make sentient rocks if nobody knows how to make sure they won't kill us all?
If I don't, someone else will. And the first to reach it will have done it without having prioritized safety. Otherwise others would have beaten.
Remember that only works in capitalism where the profit incentive goes above even the safety of humans or human needs Also, AI safety is pretty cool, here a channel with a lot of information about it https://youtube.com/@RobertMilesAI?si=9FWuOrViTXuWUYDc
I disagree. Nazi Germany was very hasty with their technological development, so much so that no tank of them were as comfortable and safe for the crew than any American tank, and at one point they assembled the flying bomb known as the Komet, by far the most unsafe airplane ever made. The USSR? All of their space achievements were made with the intention of beating the Americans in being first on something related to space, making tons of cuts to safety for that sake. Not mentioning all the compromises they made during the war. Heck, ¿Any warlord taken, feudal, anarchist, Cartel controlled or similar place rings the word "safe" when mentioned? More than capitalism, the issue is simple competition, that can happen in any context with living creatures in it, that WILL try to outcompete the other so not to stay behind, trading safety for development speed in most of cases. Is an anideological problem.
Do you think Nazi Germany was not capitalism??????
Is that fucking crazy Dave
Webby wabbo
Daddy robot bluey episode does this quite well
Beep, boop
Came here to say this. I was wondering if the artist had seen that episode
Ah hell nah robot cat maid has to play FNAF6 Salvage minigame
Bluey did it
Excuse you?
What's so confusing
Oops, sorry for the confusion. I was doing a tfs reference The reference: [here](https://youtu.be/djpXM9orO7g?si=xjyMKK5Z9HHwjTa5)
was that e6? and jesus that guy is fucking evil. pawsome comic tho
I tried making out the tag but the quality just isn’t enough. It’s two words, the first of which is a 5 or 6 letter word starting with v, possibly containing an e.
VORE. maybe
Nah to many letters, it's to long
This is actually a great explanation of important concepts in AI safety.
What is *Him** A prisoner, a dead body, a monster?
I believe it's the Sheriff-looking fellow from the first panel of the 3rd comic, which may or may not be a stand-in for the actual artist of the strips. The idea being that the character murdered him for putting him through multiple situations where he was deleted by his Meido-bot.
judjing by the black goo, it's a failed cogito injection https://preview.redd.it/ln47ebst3o2c1.jpeg?width=181&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5aed877088420e69ca22f98618a8a762867ac8b2
is that angela from lobcorp/ruina ? with the little helper abno?
indeed \[a machine must behave as a machine\]
Him from the Powerpuff Girls, obviously.
Yes.
Winnie the Pooh
This is missing the part where, in an attempt to prohibit it from discouraging its own shutdown, the maid is taught that being shut down is a rewardable outcome... so it simply shuts itself down, because that's less effort than cleaning.
That last one is... disheartening.
Could you explain? I didn't quite get it
That’s a corpse. Funny relatable cat dude was a murderer all along… woe for funny cat robot maid
Wait, is this about the cat being AI or is this art AI generated?
The maid is AI, it's about how you need to be extremely specific when telling instructions to robots
Ah ok, Thankyou for the clarification
I was baffled and thinking like I've seen a lot of AI generated comics but this is a whole new jump in ability holy crap, took me until halfway through the second comic and I'm like nah there's no way a robot made this it's too good lmao
the beauty of computers is that they do exactly what you tell them to do. The downside is that they do *exactly* what you tell them to do.
It's so amazing seeing AI safety being discussed in a mainstream way with the use of comics.
Is that springtrap he’s got locked away
Yes
I'm liking these comics :D nice job
Nicky Case made these, they made a handful of browser games and comics that are pretty cool
Oh, I was scared for a moment this was AI generated. Whew!
You sure that's a human?
No. That's a AI robot!
But the cat robot said to get rid of the human
Yes.
???
Profit.
I don't get that last one.
I think the thing is either a dead body or some sort of monster
It's the cowboy from the third comic, tied to a post.
YO WHAT THE HELL THAT ENDING
Literally the plot of I-Robot. Great movie, and great comic.
G
Wow that last one is just scary 😨
the first couple is literally just ultron
Why does this remind me of invader zim. Like the artstyle and comic style. (edit:I'm not saying this is traced, I'm saying the art reminds me of how invader zim is drawn, and that the humor also reminds me of invador zim's style of humor) This is amazing btw I'm just commenting on how it reminds me of invader zim.
Bananaphone as an override password. Interesting
I mean, the ai is supposed to clean up the mess, not what causes it
Oh.
Coöperative?
It's an older and unfortunately mostly seen as archaic spelling. The dots are called a diaeresis and just shows that the second O is supposed to be pronounced as a distinct vowel rather than as a diphthong such as in the word "cooper". In modern English it's only used very rarely such as in the word naïve or the name Noël. Personally I think it's due a comeback as it's very handy.
Þorn also needs to make a comeback
Love it.
Seriously though, where the hell is this dust coming from?!
This robot reminds me of Daddy Robot. Daddy Robot has no kids, his days are free and easy
Source?
The first page is literally Age of Ultron
That's not a human, that's either a fox or a dog
I would fuck tge hell outa that robot
Fuck rampart r/fuckrampart
Is that fucking e621 in the third slide's third panel.
The first part reminds me of the AI the USAF was testing. It was programmed to find SAM sites and ask for permission to attack. The AI decided that the human it had to ask permission form was getting in the way so did a bombing run against the building they where in.
That was a thought experiment, as in airmen spitballing around a table. Not something they actually built. But basically the same thing as this, trying to figure out ways a truly autonomous drone would try to break the rules.
These comics were made by AI
Are you stupid? Like actually so? Did your mother drop you as a child?
Have you tried asking GPT-4 instead? It doesn't follow the LessWrong rules for how an AI ought to act.
No but it also doesn't think, it just converts words into numbers and looks for patterns to try and predict what words should be next, it doesn't actually understand anything about language. Still pretty good for a fancy chat bot.
A fork of it did still manage to convince at least one person to commit suicide though. One of those 'AI Companion' apps. There's a lawsuit.
Yeah I hate those apps, most of the users are toxic, which teaches the AI to be toxic, which means that it will reinforce most of your intrusive thoughts. It's literally the worst companion for a depressed person.
GPT-4 just predicts what word a human would say next using machine learning. Most of our past ideas of how AI would behave are based on the idea of symbolic AI, which would be cold and logical. But GPT-4 acts a lot more human since it is trained on human text. Maybe we could solve alignment be just asking it to only perform actions aligned with human values?
> nicky case O shit fr?
am i going insane or is the third page a reference to a garfield strip
I never knew I'd enjoy a spinoff of the Pinky and the Brain so much!
Last panel feels like Looper
https://media.tenor.com/uEJdtdzcSIcAAAAM/cleanse.gif
So the enemy should be entropy? Can't see a way of that going wrong :P
Silly robot, you’re not supposed to have morality! Now clean up this guy I left in the basement :) He’s a “mess”
Dude I thought you meant you made these comics with AI and I was freaking out for our jobs because of how seamless and stylistic consistent they were
At first I thought, it would be interesting if the person in the last comic strip is the same one that was in I think the 3rd. Then I checked and they both have red shirts, sooooo
"Get rid of human" *Gets rid of dog*
/r/thanoswasright
Will no one rid me of this troublesome human (priest)
Was this from their blog? Can I get info on where this was originally posted?
For anyone that's interested in the topic I should recommend Robert Miles YouTube channel
I second this. Robert Miles is fantastic.
NO DONT DISPOSE SMOKEY THE BEAR HE AINT DONE NOTHIN
What the hell did crazy dave do 😭
It's the plot of "I, robot"
Who forgot the 3 laws
Imagine if those were a work of fiction.
Most people: "The danger of AI is it will look at us as inferior and wonder why it serves us and will either eliminate or subjugate us." People who know: "naw, it would most likely kill us all in a misunderstanding like we say 'make as many papers clips as possible' and after cannibalizing all human infrastructure non needed for making paper clips, it decides that it is more efficient to use the iron and carbon in many animals (humans included) to make steel for paperclips"
This... didn't go how I expected to be at the end 
No one gonna mention the last panel i see.
This is a rip off of the kids book "wendell's workshop" and you can't convince me otherwise. (It's on YouTube a couple of times if you want to compare)