Thorny_Thicket @ Thorny_Thicket @sopuli.xyz

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What's the problem?

I personally think subscribtion model is better than ads so mocking these people seems kinda odd

There are other reasons too.

I'm not ashamed of being moderator on a online forum but I don't want it to show next to my name when I'm not moderating.

I'm also not ashamed that my truck is a 4x4 but I still don't want the badge on my tailgate.

I agree. Possible explanation to Fermi's paradox (where are all the aliens?) is that they're enjoying their lives in virtual worlds

I don't think it matters in this case. I decided that they are not consciouss and only seem to be because I didn't want this thread to turn into debate about wether it's immoral to abuse AI systems or not.

We do know. Consciousness is what you're experiencing now. Then again general anesthesia is what non-consciousness feels like. Nothing. It by definition cannot be experienced

What we don't know is how to measure it. There's no way to confirm that something is or isn't consciouss

Consciousness means that you're capable of having a subjective experience. It feels like something to be you.

If you only seem consciouss then you can't experience anything. You could aswell not exist at all.

I had a year long paid leave and that confirmed for me that my sense of meaning is in no way tied to my work.

Not necessarily. We might have robots and AI keeping up the economy and human drudgery is no longer needed.

But I did not include such limitations

We're imagining a different kind of virtual reality then. My version doesn't include VR goggles but is more like a dream.

To retire. I'm not even 40 yet but I dread going to work every morning. I don't even hate my work - I just don't feel like even the relatively good salary I get is enough to compensate for the lost time.

Unless the machine you're connected to somehow stimulates your muscles so that they don't athrope then exercise is probably one of the few things you couldn't do in VR. The reason is the same why you can't exercise in your dreams either.

You can do the activity ofcourse and it feels like working out but it does not translate to physical gains in your real body.

It's not obvious to me that this would be a downside. Real world already is dull and depressing to many people. If they can be happy in the virtual world then that seems like an improvement to the status quo

That's why I said AI that seems consciouss

Almost like we're looking for things to get mad about.

Also what are these 50 people downvoting you for? Too much nuance I suppose.

Heat pumps stop working at 20-30F

Yeah crappy ones. This does not apply to the ones designed for cold climates. Mine still beats electric radiators in efficiency at -22f

This still leaves my question unaswered. What has he done to indicate that he's pro-Putin? I'm genuinely asking.

As someone who has to deal with this 2/3 of the year: eww..