Within a complex enough system the difference becomes functionally meaningless anyway, We could re-configure all matter (except you) in the universe into one giga computer and it would still struggle to accurately predict your behaviour beyond a few minutes because the physical system of your brain is just that chaotic. So wether we’re concious or not, or have free will or not ultimately makes no difference.

My political views are basically that we should make decisions based on evidence and observable reality. This apparently makes me ultra super turbo radical left.

This is why I just designated my phone as the privacy nightmare, no bookmarks, no logins (besides google which is also my designated privacy nightmare email) and no payment details saved on any browsers or anywhere on it other than what’s needed by my carrier to pay for my plan. Lets me keep in touch with family while keeping my main PC a bit more secure.

But sentience itself is a rather hazy definition, while it works from a perspective of minimizing suffering there are still potential concerns with the concept of just deciding some types of life are worth more than others.

The problem is that this is a valid argument, a lot of morality ultimately comes down to drawing the line on what you think its ok to kill in order to maintain your survival and comfort.

I still don’t understand how it can seem this way, and the fact that so many people seem to think so feels like a massive failure of the education system to instill the most basic of critical thinking skills. Once every month or two I check in to see if an LLM can achieve a half decent 1 on 1 D&D game and it always falls horribly flat within the first minute or two.

Honestly I think its China just protecting its economy, western businesses are already finding that AI now costs more than just hiring humans and gives a worse output, the chinese government is just preventing their own economy from falling into the same trap.

As someone from outside the US, the problem is your side A is still more B than most countries side B by a pretty large margin (Though one that is concerningly shrinking). But we have seen proof that you can vote in a different side B at a local level and that’s probably the only non-violent way out of this assuming you (and by extension the rest of us) aren’t fucked already.

Nah the pilgrims were their own brand of shit leaving multiple places they were perfectly welcome (including the UK itself) and allowed to practice their religion but kept leaving anyway because they weren’t allowed to enforce their beliefs on others. This is the US going back to how it was founded.

All we did was completely annihilate the local environment and industries they depended on to survive, why would they do this!?

Sounds like we just weld the door shut from the outside and carry on as normal.

iirc light does move through the fiber itself at more or less 1c its just that it doesn’t take straight path due to all the internal reflections which is what causes the slow down.

Don’t forget on the job perks (Access may vary depending on site assignment):

• The magic vending machine
• The gender change machine
• Height changing machine
• Cute petable eyeballs

iirc Disney already has something akin to corporate extra-territorality and and republicans were floating a wider rollout of that during Trumps last term?

AI going from ‘It’ll make everything so much more efficient!’ to deliberately doing everything as inneficiently as possible is just… idk beyond even satire at this point.

Everyone under 30 is trying as hard as we damn well can but the ship is sinking way faster than any of us can climb and some bastard has stolen all ladders. So the situation is kind of keep trying but with the acceptance that we’re fucked anyway.

Also iirc Israel just kept shooting? And then Trump got mad than iran continued shooting back because it ‘violated’ the imaginary ceasefire that apprently involved them just sitting there and being shot without retaliating?

Startrek, finally wiring in some damn cameras after manually hunting down intruders for the fifty eight thousandth time.

Especially when most actual network improvements are paid for directly by the government/taxpayer yet magically become the property of private companies.

A nuclear arsenal to prevent certain countries from just randomly invading?