Ahab Apologist

Sorry, but if your principles didn't compel you to leave sooner, I'm going to look reaaaaaal hard at "deserved more deliberation" and "deep respect for Sam".

omg get fucked 🙄

If you die in heaven, you go to double heaven. But if you die in double heaven, you reincarnate as a pokeweed.

It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

And yet, somehow, all I can think about at this moment is how much I hate Joe Rogan.

He peddled a slurry of lies that helped get us to this point, including "Vote for Trump if you don't want war."

At the end of the day, human consciousness is an embodied phenomenon—the only way to have human consciousness is to be human.

You can discuss more general notions of consciousness (the panpsychists believe all things are conscious), but it's a mistake to anthropomorphize everything.

Science fiction has been preparing us for this discussion for over a century, but so many folks missed the assignment

In any case, it's an... interesting time to be alive.

5) no longer on stable axiomatic ground, some have begun to question their fundamental assumptions about the universe, leading them to replace classic unfalsifiable beliefs (god) with new, technomystical ones (panpsychism and simulation theory)

4) on the other hand, some people, who are willing to accept that human consciousness is just the emergent byproduct of brain activity, cannot see any meaningful distinction between how a brain produces "consciousness" and how a computer executes an AI program

3) folks who want to believe in magical human consciousness have, with equal urgency, sought to refute the notion that the experience of consciousness is anything more than an emergent byproduct of brain activity

1) a lot of people seem to be thinking about what consciousness is for the very first time (and it shows)

2) some folks assume there is something magical about human consciousness, and the debate has made them desperate to articulate what that magic is and why it's reasonable to suppose it exists

I think the AI consciousness debate has been really interesting for what it reveals about the debaters, not the subject of debate.

A few observations:

"maybe it should pay the sources it summarizes"
"But that's not a viable business model"
"...you're so close to getting it"

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

I believe the phrase for this is “eating the seed corn.”

You actually don't require a complete understanding of how consciousness works to demonstrate that Claude isn't conscious.

This is a logical fallacy

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Dear Russia,

Iran's fire is making oil prices spike.

Spiking oil prices makes economic problems for us, so we're making it easier for you to sell more oil.

In sum, Iranian military success against us reduces economic pressure on you.

Just, you know, FYI.

Sincerely,
The geniuses leading America

Jesus what an incredible own goal

The only victimless crime is how comfy sweatpants are

he meets a magical negro in vietnam and steals shrimp recipes off his dead body

Dog-walked by a pro se defendant

lmao

Why are we pretending that it's not gambling

My wife's favorite girl scout cookies are the super dry. gluten-free ones. I cannot BELIEVE I didn't think to include this in our prenup.

It's Joe Rogan with a tail

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

Honestly, still shocked that someone who CHOOSES to share that about themselves can enjoy any public life whatsoever

rebecca black was definitely fuckin right when she said "yesterday was thursday, tomorrow is saturday"