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by poikroequ 2y ago
Maybe some truths about consciousness are beyond the reaches of science. For example, how do we know if a person is conscious and not just a "philosophical zombie"? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophica
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by poikroequ 2y ago
It's not that simple. For concerts and sporting events, you likely agreed to certain terms and conditions when buying the ticket that prevent you from selling those photos. I don't know about inside a company's offices. Anoth
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by poikroequ 2y ago
It's sad that this is the most down voted comment. Do you all seriously expect to get massive amounts of content for free without ads? What is the solution here? Please do tell because I can't figure it out.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Science isn't perfect but wow it's accomplished so much. The entire modern world would have never come to be without scientific research. Hard to argue against that.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Similar research has been done on self driving cars, tricking them into misreading speed limit signs, for example.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
This is a problem with AI/ML in general. Things like object recognition and facial recognition can be tricked to misclassify an image by manipulating specific pixels in certain ways. So while to us it's clearly an image of a dog,
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Precisely. When there's a will, there's a way. They'll find some way to interpret the laws and the constitution that fits their agenda.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
This entire article lacks substance. It just feels like I'm reading a lot of vague nonsense. > I have a habit of reaching for AI as the primary source of information, and I'm using Perplexity, Google, or StackOverflow less and
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Just a day or two ago I saw someone else comment jokingly about $50 gift cards. The reality turned out to be even more pathetic.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Future? I could swear it's already happening. Talking to support workers is getting very cringe worthy. Every other sentence is some superficial crap like "Hello there, It's great to hear from you and I hope you're doing
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Oh look, another smoke shop. It sure is great we're getting the most out of our young people.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
> ... falling birth rates present a crisis which needs to be addressed by urgent cultural change. Not this ** again. Ignore the doomsayers, there is no crisis. Falling birthrates is a good thing. Living in a world of dwindling finite res
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Microsoft: It's the EUs fault! Also Microsoft: It's a feature!
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Thankfully my company isn't trying to inject AI into everything, and we're the better for it. I do use chatgpt a little in my job, but only a little. This generation of LLMs are simply far too unreliable to be depended upon for an
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Why would Microsoft even bother making this comment? Is the outage in some part their fault? I was under the impression it had everything to do with the botched croudstrike update, and nothing to do with Windows itself. This could have just
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by poikroequ 2y ago
More people voted in the 2020 presidential election than any before it, not because they were Biden supporters, but because they loathed Trump. The Democrats need to stop being apologetic, and keep reminding people what a horrible person Tr
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I suspect there are lots of details and context absent from this article. It's hard to believe this is only about booking.com scraping Ryanair's website. What part of it was "unauthorized", exactly? While it's gener
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Yep, it's very important to recognize these things still happen today and are not remnants of the past. It was maybe a few ago that people were being sold into slavery somewhere in Africa. There's something like 30-40 million peop
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I'm very happy to see this exists! While I support Kagi, I believe they just use Bing API for most search results. We need real alternatives with their own search index. Of course, we need to hamper our expectations. Google reportedly
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by poikroequ 2y ago
All of this discussion. Most people don't understand, were not voting for Biden, were voting against Trump. The DNC could nominate a floating turd in a bowl, and we'd still vote Democrat, because it's not a vote for Trump.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Admittedly taken out of context, but that doesn't make what I said any less true.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Meaningful. Sensible. Coherent. Our conscious experience is NOT random nonsense. An analogy, tune an old analog TV to a station and you get a meaningful picture with meaningful sound. Tune it to a station that doesn't exist, and you ge
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by poikroequ 2y ago
> computational functionalism, according to which performing the right computations is sufficient (and necessary) for consciousness. This is akin to magic, and utter nonsense. Think about how a computer works and all of its individual co
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I'm hindsight, after the recent xz backdoor, combined with the fact sshd runs as root, we probably shouldn't use SSH for everything.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
The reasoning in this article feels very human-centric. Most animals are likely conscious and self-aware to some extent. Yet, lots of species are loners, not what we would consider social. How would you explain their self-awareness? I also
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Reading this feels an awful lot like watching the video about the retro encabulator.
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It's useful to keep it up so the public can scrutinize all their commits and fix anything suspicious.
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There's plenty of young people to care for the elderly. There's this strange assumption that it takes one young person to care for one elderly person, I've seen it in news articles, and I've seen people say it, either im
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Story points don't help me do my job. They do a great job of wasting my time and making me less productive. It's not just story points, but the whole agile/scrum methodology feels terribly wasteful. The gross amount of time w
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I'm so tired of hearing this. Declining birthrates is NOT a crisis. It's a good thing populations are declining. We live in a world of finite resources. There's only so much to go around. A larger population simply means we&#

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