socrateswasone

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by socrateswasone 11mo ago
Oooh scary, watch out for the Russian Boogeyman!
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by socrateswasone 11mo ago
Oh goody. Living human tissue, mimicking an embryo if not a baby, without consciousness or soul, grown and molded for our purposes and pleasures in a lab. This is excellent news everyone. A clear sign that we're winning the fight again
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by socrateswasone 11mo ago
I don't think being able to comment here is that valuable, GPS is fine but so were maps, curing cancer won't save anyone from dying anyway, surviving as a species is useless for an individual, mining space rocks won't stop f
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by socrateswasone 11mo ago
Except for point 2 these are cliches. Thanks to science we pretty much know what's in space and it's not very interesting. So sure, we'll put weapons up there as "defence". But that's not very interesting is it
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by socrateswasone 11mo ago
It's predicting the next token by statistical approximation. Hallucination vs fact is an ad-hoc distinction we impose on the result to suit our purpose.
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by socrateswasone 11mo ago
Nuclear weapons right?
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by socrateswasone 11mo ago
Why are we going into space? Don't we already know what's there?
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by socrateswasone 1y ago
Who cares? We already know what's in space and there's nothing for us there.
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by socrateswasone 1y ago
This is great. I have my doubts about Trump but I have to admit, he is keeping his promises. I thought there was no way he would do something like this with the tech oligarchs swarming around him, but it seems they are firmly under his thum
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by socrateswasone 1y ago
Mosley was an anachronism but his time seems to be coming. Shying away from it isn't the answer. Young men are online a lot and they're seeing an appeal in traditional values and group identity in opposition to individualist and t
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by socrateswasone 1y ago
I think what consciousness nominally means is an awareness of things in relation to a self, a subject-object relation. If there is such a thing as awareness without subject object content, I'd love to hear more, like how would you even
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by socrateswasone 1y ago
Saying it might be on a continuum just obfuscates things. What do you mean exactly? If there is no sense of self or personal identity, how is that different than a block of wood or a computer? That there might be "mental" function
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by socrateswasone 1y ago
You don't need to know if it has a "subjectivity" to know if you can torture and kill it, you can rely on the writhing and squealing. Making up artificial distinctions and questions with no answers is just a conceit we get in
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by socrateswasone 1y ago
It's not like anything, a bat has no sense of self or personal history, it operates on instinct without a personal, reflective self. A bat having consciousness is as relevant as whether a sonar does.