ForIveSyntax

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by ForIveSyntax 3y ago
Excellent, I’ll leave it at that. Keep ‘em guessing.
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by ForIveSyntax 3y ago
buddhism intensifies
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by ForIveSyntax 3y ago
They’re not the same self but then again neither of them are the same self as you are now. Ship of theseus. But then the self itself is an abstraction. Consider Indra’s Net, the subconscious, dissociative identity disorder, and all realms
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by ForIveSyntax 3y ago
Alright, another for you because I like the cut of your gib. Consider the octopus, whose nervous system is distributed into nodes in the head and limbs. Would severing a limb of a hypothetical sentience-uplifted octopus be a greater crime
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by ForIveSyntax 3y ago
I wonder if you could be prosecuted based on how long you turned a sentient machine off. Not murder, per se, but the time value of consciousness. And this bleeds into whether murder should be a bigger crime if the (bio)victim is younger. W
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by ForIveSyntax 3y ago
Why do you ask? Are you hoping to ROWHAMMER a parallel universe? Genuinely curious if there’s any scientifically useful direction to this question
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by ForIveSyntax 3y ago
Yes, they’re better at chess. No, they’re profoundly incompetent at conversation, just incompetent at many languages at once. Where else are they superhuman? The ability to generate unoriginal, uncanny art faster than a painter? Fair-ish
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by ForIveSyntax 3y ago
Fake gods have been bad enough. I really don’t want to create real ones.
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by ForIveSyntax 3y ago
Maybe machines will deserve rights eventually. However, the nature of those rights would be different. Going without electricity for any amount of time just amounts to a temporary loss of consciousness, whereas animals starve. Data can be
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by ForIveSyntax 3y ago
All we need is a ruling that AI can be corporations, then we have our loophole.