CarbonatedPastaSauce @ CarbonatedPastaSauce @lemmy.world

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I mostly played video games in between intense bursts of productivity to get work done.

Yes, I was doing this before remote work was a thing. You just have to be slick. I once set up a "lab" of three PCs to "test some new software" in a back room and then played Birth of the Federation on one of them while the other two ran perf counter output, for 3 months straight. This was an act of desperation to keep my mind busy. They had laid almost everyone off in the company so I didn't have much to do, but it started a tradition that carried me all the way to retirement!

Not a joke. It was a compliment. I like the way you think.

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I think you pissed off all three Cinnamon fans.

That is an important point that I missed in what I read of the article before I got grossed out. Thanks. I'm still not sure about this line of research because if (when?) they do make something that achieves a level of sentience, consciousness, or even just the ability to feel, will it be able to signal to us that it is happy, content, in agony, mental anguish, etc? The thought of being trapped in that situation is terrifying.

Yeah and it was just a bunch of sedated live rats pinned to little trays with their brains exposed and a bunch of shit stuck everywhere into their bodies that I had to see while working on the lab computers.

I'm not going to get into an argument about whether there's value in animal research (I think there is) but there's some horrifying shit that comes with it, and I'm just pointing out that I've directly worked with plenty of scientists that are completely unfazed by that shit. So while it may be a few cells on a mesh now, they won't stop at that.

The hard truth is that there are a lot of completely un-empathetic scientists out there.

Some of the shit I saw them doing to animals when I worked for Baxter still makes me sick when I think about it. And I only had to go into that lab a couple times.

I have been on the internet almost since its modern inception in the mid 90's, and I have never seen such a low effort troll in my entire life.

Actually kind of impressive.

How rude!

The right drugs will get you a real girlfriend.

I tried to learn this but it was taking me 3 days to get to and from school.

Reddit is garbage. The end.

You forgot the -

Same. Chronic insomnia since I was 20. Diagnosed ADHD in my late 40s.

Both of which are equally wrong.

They are still debugging the bot.

I press the button and coffee comes out a minute later.

You may be in shock still. I know when I got cheated on it took a while for the pain to really set in. Sorry man. No matter what, deception is going to hurt a relationship one way or the other.

Technically correct, but since it has never happened, it has also never gotten any harder.

He would be against everything about this.