Hey Mr. thought police, looking at your posts, I see that all you do is going around bullying everyone and threatening to ban them. Why don't you put a sock in it? As far as I can see, you're the one that needs to be banned.
"Ad hominem" literally means "against the man", and it refers to the logical fallacy of attacking the attributes of the man rather than the logic of the man's argument. That's all there is to it, and you're simply wrong.
As of this morning, Youtube (ie the default 'recommended' feed) seems to have been scrubbed of all negative coronavirus vids and all negative stock market vids, except for mainstream news videos.
Maybe analogous, maybe not. Analogy is in the eye of the beholder. There's no law of the universe that says that consciousness is equivalent to computation. Maybe consciousness is an emergent property of biological systems, along some dimension currently unknown to us.
The fine line is around whether a machine can actually experience conscious perception, such as actually feeling pain, for example. Of course, there's no way to know...
It's an outcome. "Solution" depends on the goal. If the goal is to have a planet so choked with humanity that almost everything else dies, then no, it's not a solution.
Ahhh "ethics". The elusive, undefined moral compass that's whatever you want it to be -- very practical for finger pointing and self-righteous outrage.
If he can actually address the shortcomings of upwork, etc (and there are MANY), he can always scale up. Nobody right now is providing a good application that models the end-to-end experience of hiring a freelancer for software development. For it to really work, the application would need to force clients to specify their software requirements in a detailed way (for a start).
Hey, after reading this article I tried to sign up at flexiple.com as a freelancer... until it asked me how much I wanted to make in rupees. I live in Canada.