Congratulations, you’re the inaugural entry in my “people not to have over for dinner” list.

“Charlemagne” literally means “Charles the Great”.

Those are things Congress or the states would need to do—the president can’t (and shouldn’t) make Constitutional amendments.

Nah, they’ll just add a “for entertainment purposes only” disclaimer to the government itself.

So he’d have deported Einstein, then?

if a living organism moves both in time and in space, the genome stays the same, while the proteins in the body might change due to different gene expression

That sounds like a reaction norm—all the various phenotypes a single genome might potentially develop into under different environmental conditions. Which doesn’t seem quite analogous to Noetherian properties like momentum and energy, which are conserved in the sense that they can change inside a system as long as there are balancing actions that preserve the property for the system as a whole.

Noether’s theorem specifically establishes a connection between conserved quantities and continuous symmetries. What’s the continuous symmetry associated with the genome—something analogous to changing time or location that can be varied continuously while leaving biology unchanged?

You could go further. A 50/50 coin is arbitrary; what if you used a weighted coin instead? That is, both you and the superintelligence know that you’ll pick the single box with probability p, but neither of you know the coin’s outcome until you flip it.

What’s the ideal value of p in this case? Is it not arbitrarily close to 1?

This is the fear that induced me to get a gravity hook.

Just need to replace the eagles with vultures.

Civil unrest is the one situation where corporations hope everyone forgets they exist.

The common element is that everyone adapts to society at large.

There are churches where people have had round-the-clock vigils for over a century.

All cardinalities equal to or greater than that of the natural numbers.

Humans are to cats as cars are to humans: similar difference in weight and size, similar (if not greater) danger—but we walk around them because we’re used to them and we think we can predict them well enough. And because we’re often going to the same places.

I think machines have replaced the role of the chorus in classical Greek tragedies. Everyone knows they’re not supposed to represent individual people—they’re just the personification of social expectations and unconscious norms.

When rich people dine, they bill it to the shareholders.

The owners of other robots.

That’s what gives us “educated guesses”.

I would say that those are separate qualities: if someone had their memory erased, they could lose their knowledge and understanding without losing their intelligence or wisdom. (Intelligence isn’t unrelated, though—it’s what produces understanding from knowledge.)