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drxzcl
·2 ay önce·discuss
The agent will happily fix that for them. They are through like that.
drxzcl
·3 ay önce·discuss
But what would we consider conscious?

My position is that there is no actual, definitive answer to that question, and therefore it makes no sense engaging with the concept.
drxzcl
·3 ay önce·discuss
I can make an AI system with a survival instinct right now. Of course, all that will do is make people tell me “it’s not a proper survival instinct” or move the goal posts and tell me I need yet some other property.

This whole endeavor is doomed from the beginning. There is no crucial test for “consciousness”, just ad hoc criteria people come up with to land on the conclusions that leave their belief system intact.

Consciousness is not a concept that can be rendered operational.
drxzcl
·3 ay önce·discuss
That’s fair. I’ll delete.
drxzcl
·3 ay önce·discuss
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drxzcl
·3 ay önce·discuss
You can’t forget to take class W mnestics. Not unless someone prevents you from taking them.
drxzcl
·7 ay önce·discuss
All the stores I can get to within a reasonable time period stock ISO keyboards instead of ANSI, and I've never really warmed up to those. So I'm stuck with next-day even for macs.
drxzcl
·7 ay önce·discuss
As an aside, I have never seen a decent license for user generated content. Either they expose the platform to serious liability, or they come across as incredibly predatory.
drxzcl
·8 ay önce·discuss
Wait, what's the story of the sailboat trip? My searches are coming up empty, but it sounds like a great story.
drxzcl
·10 ay önce·discuss
The north sea is 34 grams per litre. The Mediterranean is 38. For my pasta I use 10, and that's on the high end.
drxzcl
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Honestly? I think they are just rationalizing away their respective midlife crises.
drxzcl
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Again, you are ignoring the identity based systems they describe, that have been in place for centuries before either of them were born.

You know which ones I mean.
drxzcl
·2 yıl önce·discuss
The guys closing polling places in black neighbourhoods? The guys denying women and trans people healthcare?

Identity politics has always been a conservative project.
drxzcl
·2 yıl önce·discuss
It’s 500k people for over a decade. If any study has the data to do it, it’s this one.
drxzcl
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Not to downplay the dilemmas we face today, it seems to me that the main problem is that the machine is too expensive, too complicated and too large to serve as a permanent heart/lung replacement.

We have an excellent record of making machines smaller, cheaper and simpler to operate. This machine will be the pacemaker of the future.
drxzcl
·2 yıl önce·discuss
You generally enroll a passkey for a single device or connected group of devices. My icloud-syncing devices has a passkey. My windows laptop has another. My desktop has yet another. I have also enrolled my yubikey.

I could stop using my idevices tomorrow and not be negatively influenced.
drxzcl
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Plagiarism is not a legal thing. Copyright infringement is, but that’s a different beast.
drxzcl
·2 yıl önce·discuss
It diverges more from x86 than I would have expected!
drxzcl
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I have a Mastercard branded card issued by the Dutch quasi-monopolist (ICS). Every time I have a transaction with a merchant with ties to NL, they force me to do 2FA using their crappy app.

I have no words to express how much I hate this.
drxzcl
·3 yıl önce·discuss
The MIT license is two paragraphs long. The GPL is little more than a page, plus a very informative preamble.

Don’t take anyone’s word for what they say or which is better. Read them.