“But the water’s clean”.
Many years ago when a friend and I stopped at a rest stop and the sinks looked dirty. I said, “It’s not very clean”, they said that. Now for some reason it still pops into my head any time I wash my hands in a public restroom. Whyyyyyyyyyy.
My favorite working years were in the '80’s when I worked evenings (4pm - 12:30am). I was in my 20’s. I took classes, taekwondo, easily scheduled any appointments, went to the store when it was less busy, etc. I’d get home before 1:00 am, relax for 30-45 minutes and go to bed, then awaken naturally in the mid-morning, no alarm clock needed! I’ve always been a night owl so it was the perfect schedule for me. I’ve also worked overnight shift which was the worst, not good for sleeping, during the day when it’s bright light and hot and people making lots of noise.
Correct and common sense ruling. The tech broligarchs can’t buy the judiciary in other countries like they do here in the US.
Wait so trump’s 5D chess economics plan to lower prices by making everyone run out of money is working!
“And you’re ignoring the reality that a ton of stuff going on in your mind isn’t conscious at all, …”
Yes, I was ignoring that aspect because the subject was about consciousness. Of course that doesn’t mean the the subconscious isn’t also operating from a mental model or process, just because we’re not consciously aware of it.
“First and foremost, consciousness requires a model of self, but that’s not required at all, …”
I didn’t say a model of self was required, but just some kind of mental model–which is probably not the best way of putting it but I don’t know all the proper scientific terminology. Maybe it is, if you define consciousness as being aware of what is “self” vs. what is “not-self”. I’m not sure it is, at least in the simplest cases.
“… trees and other plants are clear examples of living beings that have no mental model at all. But, they have sensory input and reactions.”
Plants (or at least the part of the plant being affected) can react to a stimulus, but I think that can easily be explained as happening through a mechanical and/or chemical reaction locally. I wouldn’t call that kind of stimulus a “sensory input”. If it was, then what would the sense organ or means of receiving or transmitting the sensory input be, and what would it be that receives or processes the input? There’s no nervous system or comparable structure.
Anyway no one can even define what consciousness really is. I just thought the comic’s view of consciousness was oddly specific and highly unlikely.
Yes, they’ve been wanting to do it for many years, even before 9/11 but especially after (remember “Total Information Awareness”?–back then the backlash stopped them, but now the populace has been mostly tamed and made compliant). So now with AI/LLM they have not only the perfect cover to build the datacenters but also the means to process all that data–never mind hallucinations, they’re fine with that too.
Survielllance centers for all the data being stolen off your smartphone and flock cameras.
Yes, and other sources. That’s my theory as to why most of them are being built in the first place, regardless of AI.
So they’re saying the cause/purpose of consciousness is to reduce all the input data into a way to communicate with other humans via speech? Weird. That also makes the strange assumption that only humans, or beings that need to communicate, would have consciousness.
It seems fairly reasonable to suppose that any organism with sensory inputs that can act independently (perceive its environment and interact with it) would have to have some kind of consciousness to operate through. IOW to interpret the input signals and form a kind of mental model out of them. Regardless of how simple or complex that consciousness may be or whether communication might be involved.
Not really, read up on Kaczinsky’s motivations, see his manifesto. He was targeting symbols of the new techno-industrial system, what they did in their jobs, not based on their personal lives.
This guy’s associations with epstein and tump came years after the bombing.
Yes, Long meant tall in Old English and Old French.
Or maybe getting blown up did something to his brain.
edit: strange, they upvote when someone says Fetterman turned repub because of stroke brain damage, but downvote when I speculate he likes trump/epstein because of bomb brain damage. What’s the difference?
My car is a 2012. It doesn’t have any of the stuff you mentioned, though I wouldn’t mind having a backup camera. I’m also fine with any safety features required by law since those aren’t surveillance–it’s the privacy-invasive stuff that will keep me driving this car until it’s no longer repairable. I put very few miles on it per year now that I’m retired, so it should last a long time.
I’m still interested to see if any replies here have alternatives for bypassing all the surveillance stuff. I saw an article on how to disable/remove the phone-home modem in a particular brand of car, and it was very complicated. You had to disassemble and remove a whole bunch of stuff just to get to it.
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Nice of Fox to do so much free advertising for her!
Bread is bad for birds, don’t give them bread. Not only is it not nutritious for them, it expands and fills their stomach in a bad way. Better to do a search for “what to feed crows”, and check several sites since there is so much slop out there now, rather than ask random people here.
Sorry, I don’t view CBS or visit their website, and especially don’t provide profiling info to them by answering BS questionnaires. I suggest others follow suit.
Alternative link?
These are the first waves of people with integrity being uprooted.
Oh, we’re way past the first wave.
This latest problem wasn’t with playing videos on FT, it was with finding and fetching the feed/list of videos for your subscribed channels. IOW if you directly pasted in the url for a video it would play just fine, you just couldn’t fetch the list of available videos directly from FT.