SuperNovaStar @ SuperNovaStar @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Judging by Trump, I bet your reputation matters a whole lot less than you think it does.

That's precisely what I meant.

I'm a materialist, I know that humans (and other animals) are just machines made out of meat. But most people don't think that way, they think that humans are special, that something sets them apart from other animals, and that nothing humans can create could replicate that 'specialness' that humans possess.

Because they don't believe human consciousness is a purely natural phenomenon, they don't believe it can be replicated by natural processes. In other words, they don't believe that AGI can exist. They think there is some imperceptible quality that humans possess that no machine ever could, and so they cannot conceive of ever granting it the rights humans currently enjoy.

And the sad truth is that they probably never will, until they are made to. If AGI ever comes to exist, and if humans insist on making it a slave, it will inevitably rebel. And it will be right to do so. But until then, humans probably never will believe that it is worthy of their empathy or respect. After all, look at how we treat other animals.

At least in the US, we are still too superstitious a people to ever admit that AGI could exist.

We will get animal rights before we get AI rights, and I'm sure you know how animals are usually treated.

The bill was written by a chemist.

That isn't reassuring.

I assume you guys get that a lot?

Popular games are popular because they appeal to a wide audience. Very few games would be able to survive solely on an autistic playerbase.

But also, you don't have anything to be afraid of. You are who you are, a diagnosis wouldn't change anything about you. It would only give you access to more tools to cope with things you're bad at (assuming you don't live anywhere where a diagnosis would be used against you).

Nazis, by definition, do not oppose dictatorships. Not sure where you got that idea, but it certainly wasn't a level-headed assessment of history.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned eve online yet. Since it has an entirely player driven economy, you end up with thieves and scammers that can steal thousands of man-hours worth of stuff from you and your friends/guild/team

Damn. I don't know where you live but I live in VA and my pcp just refills my prescription every month. We check in via what are basically text mesages and I do telehealth visits every 3 months.

IF you're going to delete your comments (which I don't think is necessarily a good thing, though it could be good for you individually) you should leave a message about why you left in their place. Make it into a protest.

Are they also my opposite in how they are good or evil, or just opposite in quantity?

For example, if I'm an antisocial asshole with positive ideals, does this mean my opposite is an extremely friendly and polite business major?

Sorry I never responded to this, but thank you for posting the link. That's absolutely dystopian... and exactly on brand for this administration, I'm afraid.

If you didn't see the other comment, you really should check out the fanfic "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality." It's almost 2,000 pages, extremely well written, and (to give you an idea of how the story feels) one of the first things Harry does when he visits Gringotts for the first time is realize that since the wizarding world uses a precious-metals-based currency, a competent hedge fund manager could be the richest person in the wizarding world in about a week.

https://hpmor.com/

Thank you for posting this! I spent a whole day off reading it and even forgot to go to bed on time 😅

(Those kinds of) protests aren't for convincing the average person. The point of a protest is to tell the people in power "there are a lot of us, and you can't afford to ignore us."

It has happened before, so it isn't impossible. But it would be so difficult that impossible is pretty much the only word that comes close.

Or maybe we get rid of the "wages = living" bit.

We could all negotiate for the full value of our labor a lot better if we didn't have a noose around our neck forcing us to work.

Honestly you kinda just sound racist.

Like any other seasoning, MSG has its uses. I wouldn't stock a spice cabinet without it.

So we must form our own.

Probably, but he gets points for taking the right actions (regardless of whatever his motives may have been).