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>What a time to be alive. Totally. In a little while, you might even be able to marry a robot and even raise robot kids. What a time to be alive indeed! I hi
by qsera 2mo ago
>What a time to be alive.
Totally. In a little while, you might even be able to marry a robot and even raise robot kids.
What a time to be alive indeed!
I highly doubt that that it will happen. But just mocking the celebration of paving a path towards the death of all things that makes being a human worth all the pain..
- blaufuchs 2mo agoYknow, for a tech news aggregation website, some of you really hate technology
- p_j_w 2mo agoDo you think people on hackernews should embrace every use of technology?
- Retric 2mo agoTechnology isn’t a single unified thing. People can like GPS while disliking nuclear weapons without any contradiction. I dislike the vast waste of resources happening during the current AI bubble, and don’t really care about generative AI.
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- skeledrew 2mo ago> the death of all things that makes being a human worth all the pain I'd say that's the problem. There are people who think humans are uniquely special/purposed, and AI is systematically destroying that notion. They need to wake up, or they may find themselves jumping off a bridge or something.
- qsera 2mo agoHumans are special because they can feel. You know what it means to "feel", right?
- skeledrew 2mo agoFeelings are ultimately electrical patterns in the brain, just like everything else humans experience. And as such they can be manipulated and reproduced in any sufficiently capable brain-substrate. Only a matter of time before machines that can feel also become a thing, and then what's left?
- qsera 2mo ago>Feelings are ultimately electrical patterns in the brain Correlation =/= causation.
- skeledrew 2mo agoThere was nothing about causation here. Cause would be stimuli triggering memories, biased by the collective experience from past interactions and... DNA. Far more -ologies than I've studied involved.
- qsera 2mo agoNo, what I meant is that just because we observe signals in the brain when we feel something, it does not mean that the "feeling" is caused by the signals.
- skeledrew 2mo agoWhat would the cause be then? Actually how do you define the concept of "feeling"? Like when someone sees someone they "love", for example, is there more to it than the stimuli leading to the recognition of that person as such, which triggers a release of chemicals that cause the heart to race and the associative chain reaction recorded by the brain... is there more to it than that, particularly some quality we aren't able to measure and potentially manipulate?
- qsera 2mo ago>What would the cause be then? I don't know. We know that the physical changes happening in brain cannot be the cause of the sensations that we experience. Because dreams. If the physical changes in brain is the cause of the sensation of vision, then how can we see things in dream without the exact physical changes happening in the brain that could have caused it when awake? What this tells me is that there is something (consciousness?) that just "measures" the brain activity, and constructs a sensation from the measurements, and thus sense it. This thing is also capable of constructing the sensation without the measurements, which makes dreams possible.. How does it work? Not a clue. But the point is that the physical changes in the brain cannot be solely responsible for our sensations.
- ozyschmozy 2mo ago> all things that makes being a human worth all the pain Running fast or jumping high are what makes being a human worth all the pain?