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SpaceX launches Space Force's X-37B spaceplane to demo laser communications(spaceflightnow.com)
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Epistemology of Language and Space: An Introduction(energeia-online.org)
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Honestly, the economic tools are just that, it’s the cultural and political baggage they carry which make them a problem. That said, whenever someone says “left”, I like to make the distinction between rational progressive, radical progress
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Note that I am not saying that what this author is saying is necessarily wrong. But I don’t like the inclusion of the anonymous author, so I made a point of it. I think there’s lots of lived experience that led to the inclusion of the Sixth
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by nis0s 1y ago
If I was reaching out to academics and public figures to criticize someone else’s published work, I would use my real name. Otherwise it’s all a game, and we’re just being tools for someone else’s benefit. Anyone can also then just make up
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by nis0s 1y ago
At one point there was a New York Times article which derided a scientist who said that we could send a rocket to the moon. As such I don’t care about contrarians, fountainheads, or mouth pieces. Either you build something, or use knowledge
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by nis0s 1y ago
> PhDs are extremely focused; in a strange way saying that you have a PhD in physics sort of makes you less qualified to talk about biology. It depends, many fields intersect, and there are interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving
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I don’t think it’s appropriate to use anonymity to criticize published research. My guess is that because of the (assumed?) politics of the people involved, the anonymous author could have been a target because of their nationality or ethni
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I’d just caution that a lot of the Fediverse is heavily Marxist-Leninist. If that’s for you, go for it.
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Adversarial relationships might occur under any number of circumstances, but there’s a spectrum of this type of relationship where you have friendly competition at one end (healthy, pro-social) and detached vendetta at the other (unhealthy,
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How to put up with terrible people while maintaining your sanity and planning an escape route. Don’t burn bridges.
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Granted that the fundamental mechanisms of life are stochastic processes. But so what? The point is that those random processes converged to intelligent life more than once, and independent of one another. Intelligent life is exceptional by
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We’re just talking about evolution now, which is to be expected. The molecular bits are more subject to stochastic processes than humans because conscious-level control of themselves and their environment is an important differentiator for
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Bacteria can beat humans anytime in any number of ways. One important difference to me between a bacterium and human is that humans are concerned with more than feed-fuck-fight cycles of life. Look at what you’re doing now, for example, adv
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In many respects, we are the system.
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Sure, and then we’ll change any aspect about that fruit or plant to suit our needs in a new environment. Co-evolution and parasitic evolution is a pretty cool thing itself.
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As noted in the article, this thesis isn’t exactly new. Human reasoning is what ultimately makes humans exceptional—they both prod consciousness in themselves and other beings. The point that we’ve underestimated the cognitive complexity of
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That’s great considering there are 53M displaced internally due to a number of reasons. I’ve also seen that number cited at 14M. https://borgenproject.org/homelessness-in-mexico/ https://mexicobusiness.news&
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by nis0s 1y ago
I am of the view that if there is AI, then it will require sufficient cognitive flexibility to possess human-like levels of adaptability and intelligence. If some autonomous process lacks human levels of cognitive flexibility, then I think
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by nis0s 1y ago
Sentience is a lower-level of consciousness, and we typically rely on correspondence of physiological signals and self-reports to make a determination of sentience. In the absence of self-reports, we measure pain. I encourage you to look up
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Americans fear AI permanently displacing workers, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds(reuters.com)
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Oops, you’re right, I admit I got tired reading it half way through and didn’t finish. Sadly I can’t edit my post now. I direct my OP at whoever gives that kind of guidance to anyone, and not the author’s post, then.
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I can’t comment on the comic because I can’t read it well on my phone. But I am of the view that consciousness can be achieved through silicon-process computation if there are emergent properties which can convert discrete feature processin
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Well, semen is literally the byproduct of sapient beings. What moral and ethical considerations are given to it, or should be given to it? LLMs are an advanced automata which lack self-regulation and self-reflection, similarly to NPCs. NPCs
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> We do not benefit from working with the grain of post-Christian egalitarian-humanitarian morality… Except that you do? There is a sizable number of the intelligentsia which refuses to perform impartial and objective analysis. Imagine y
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U.S. Public Wary of Biomedical Technologies to 'Enhance' Human Abilities (2016)(pewresearch.org)
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I often think what happens in organizations where groups validate their bad decisions. Is it one influential leader who makes it happen, or is it a series of meetings between well-meaning people who stack one bad decision over another, and
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For one, an NPC is a simulated process which mimics something alive, and not alive itself.
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It’s unnecessary to rule out giving moral status to AI, but I think the OP is right that it doesn’t make sense to give it to LLMs, which is what all chatbots are currently. The current chatbots, and their underlying models, lack any meaning
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You’re right, more pedestrian deaths are occurring year over year, but I think that’s more due to lack of safety features. The number of car sales seems to be going down, but pedestrian deaths are increasing. Seems to imply more cars are no

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