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I just told you. I'm speaking of the human brain.

Wetware is a term drawn from the computer-related idea of hardware or software, but applied to biological life forms.

The prefix "wet" is a reference to the water found in living creatures. Wetware is used to describe the elements equivalent to hardware and software found in a person, especially the central nervous system (CNS) and the human mind.

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Paul Bloom has written an entire book arguing Against Empathy

I'm not sure I entirely agree with his thesis but it's not a completely outrageous idea. I often wish I could tone down my level of empathy as well.

I don't understand what you're asking.

I'm refering to the meat computer i.e. human brain.

You could be a brain in a vat - what you experience in that case would effectively be a simulation running on wetware instead of silica. But that still wouldn’t change the fact that what you’re experiencing is happening right now from your subjective point of view. Even if this were just a pre-recorded memory from someone else, it still feels like the present moment to you.

Everything you perceive could be smoke and mirrors, completely fake - but the one thing that remains undeniably true is that it feels like something, not nothing. Even a psychedelic trip, as bizarre or unreal as it may seem, is still just another appearance in consciousness. And for that to happen, your biological body needs to be alive. If you're dead, there’s nothing left that could have - or host - that experience.

How could you possibly have an experience if you're dead? We don’t fully understand what consciousness is - the fact that it feels like something to be - but it seems like a safe bet to claim that it’s an emergent feature of what our biological body does. When the body dies, that process ends, and with it, so does experience. There’s no such thing as “positive non-existence” after death. Not being, by definition, cannot be experienced.

I deleted my personal FB around a decade ago and Instagram few years ago but I joined back in because I needed pages for my business. I wouldn't exactly still say that I use them. I make one or two picture posts of my work a month and then leave.

I don't see how even the way Twitter does it is any worse than not having such system at all.

There’s a big difference between committing a crime and reporting someone for a crime they’ve already committed. To me, it’s pretty clear why murder is wrong - but the virtue of reporting a loved one for murder isn’t nearly as obvious.

Is the answer that their parents paid for all of it as is the case for most people under 18?

Honestly, if it's truly a "loved one" I probably wouldn't even report them for murder. Why? I think that when someone is close enough to you we simply apply different standards to them. Kind of like rescuing your own child from a burning building rather that rescuing two strangers.

This is such an idiotic thing to generalize to every "rich" person. You can do better.

I don't feel like I need one. If it's badly made I can usually tell with a high confidence that it's AI and if it's made so well that I can't tell I generally don't care either.

No false negatives yet, though.

Good old toupee fallacy

People used to talk about slaves in exactly the same way.

Our AI assistants might not be conscious yet, but there’s a good chance they will be someday. Treating them with basic decency from the start just seems like the right thing to do. The way I talk to ChatGPT isn’t all that different from how I talk to people - and I don’t feel the need to switch modes just because I’ve rationalized that something isn’t deserving of respect.

I had mandatory Swedish at school for over 6 years and I can't even count to ten in that language. Time well spent.

I can strongly relate with this though I must add that there's no way of knowing what the alternative would've been. Whose to say my interests wouldn't have naturally evolved over time on their own without any major outside influence. It just would be quite surprising if excessive porn use since early age wouldn't play a factor in why my sexuality is so twisted nowdays in more ways than one.

I've gotten this only a handful of times and simply refreshing my VPN has solved it every time.

It's the current trendy thing to say. Kind of like the term "executive dysfunction"