SenAnder

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Not everyone is so eager to dissolve their national identities and turn their countries into economic platforms for the world to compete on.
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If consciousness is non-physical (i.e. magic), then yes, all bets are off. But if it is physical, then we don't need an explanation to create it, any more than cavemen needed to know chemistry to cook meat over a fire.
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So what? Neurons can be simulated with computers, from which it follows so can a human-like mind. Unless you propose a non-physical source of consciousness.
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> Meanwhile Vancouver’s population went up by more than 4x. My point exactly. Meanwhile Canada has had sub-replacement fertility since 1973: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/fertility-r...
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That's 44x more prison time than you get in Minnesota for raping two girls, aged 4 and 9: https://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/rochester-man-given-...
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Vancouver tripled its housing supply, but housing affordability got worse : https://biv.com/article/2023/05/patrick-condon-behold-vancou... It turns out that if the demand is effectively infinite thanks to i
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> I’d expect a big boost in wages since they left Europe due to a loss of available employable market Despite Brexit having arguably been driven by immigration concerns, immigration to the UK has increased since that vote, and reached
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> The limitation being that Google breaks stuff at an incredible rate, and following is a bit annoying That's a strategy to keep the competition busy just keeping up: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/
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That's irrelevant. The existence of non-tracking ads, ever , proves it is a viable business mode, absent competition from tracking ads (if e.g. regulation banned them). That magazines and TV are not competing well with websites and st
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> The 45 mothers of the children in the University of Manchester study all reported serious health problems In other words, the first step of the study was eliminating fathers from participation.
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Strange how there are ads in magazines, on billboards, TV, and radio, without tracking. Especially since they're so much more expensive to place.
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There are financial and career incentives for filing patents. Filing a patent, and being against software patents in principle, are perfectly compatible. Like proponents of FOSS using proprietary software.
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There's another kind of 'no' - when the programmers and engineers and other technically expert workers are nearly universally against something, but the CEO- and lawyer-classes are for it. Like software patents. Edit: Sources
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But that's not what's happening - they're not saying "we can't afford to keep her alive" - they're saying "she's incapable of making her own medical decisions because she's not listening to
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> Her deeply religious family have spent their entire life savings on her care and has complained that a “transparency order” requested by the hospital barred their ability to give details on the case to help raise public funds. This is
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Banning the ADL would harm us all, as they go above and beyond to maintain civil society. They help train FBI agents [1], highlight dangerous symbols of hate [2,3,4], help Paypal cut off the financial networks for those that support extremi
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Show me where in my comment I proposed to remain "fully natural".
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GMOs as technology, and the effects of GMOs on food sovereignty, are two very different things. I don't want multinational biotech companies to be the only ones able to compete. Though the technology isn't harmless either. Let&#x2
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Nor can they verify non-AI assets don't infringe copyright. In both cases they have only the developer's word to go by.
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> The US forced countries to criminalize the export of drugs to the US Are such laws outliers? In how many countries is the manufacture and/or export of drugs (to any country) legal?
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Labor shortage relative to what? As usually pointed out, there is no fixed amount of labor that the geographic region of 'Germany' has to perform. It's the people there that need labor performed, and adding more people will a
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> it's not yet understood how copyright works with a generative asset. Except if you have the rights to all the works used to train your AI model. In that case, there is no risk that you are infringing.
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> America has had a massive advantage in every war it’s fought in the past 100 years: America has always been fighting elsewhere .. America’s population, industry … They’ve all been safely 10,000 miles away across oceans from the enemy a
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> This is a direct consequence of US government policy Which policy do you mean? Not legalizing drugs? Because the US is no exception in that regard.
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fnord already mentioned this, but to repeat: the situation with AI is the same as with other assets - Valve has no guarantee a developer didn't infringe copyright in taking some other model/texture/audio, tweaked it a bit, an
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> Or put another way: there have always been sexual instincts throughout the animal world (sex). But at a specific point in time, humans attached meaning to these instincts (sexuality). When humans talk about heterosexuality, we’re talki
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The problem is the op did resubmit the game without AI, but was still rejected for the same reason: I explained exactly how this worked and that there was no AI-content directly in the build, and even since then issued a new build withou
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Maybe they've since reduced the quantity and difficulty of the math part of physics education.
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The logical culmination of anti-racism, applied to the individual.
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It saddens me to see the ADL attacked, when they do so much for America. They help train FBI agents [1], highlight dangerous symbols of hate [2,3,4], help Paypal cut off the financial networks for those that support extremism and hate [5],

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