Bovine, patsy or otherwise, is a creep of a human being, a Nazi, mean spirited and vile. Miller is the puppet master, true, but Bovino was no puppet, he was an enthusiastic participant in an orgy of miasma.

I had read there were some unintended consequences of stopping that bill, something like ICE is already fully funded and don’t need that money, but the bill has some modicum of leverage that will be lost if it does not pass? I have no idea, but if someone has knowledge, I would appreciate it.

Truncate ICE, but as important, where are the Epstein Files?

What’s the problem with Joss Whedon?

Ronald Reagan, a cold man who ignored the AIDS crisis because he was a homophobe and craved the votes of other homophobes, is *not* a reminder of anything good or decent.

Linux, it isn’t just about Freedom any more.

girl who switched to linux in the exact middle of the year

Heh. It will be as successful as all of their other attempts. Way to fail again, Microsoft!
How about getting out of your own way, start helping people use Firefox, a browser that will actually help people do the things your lip service espouses?

From all reports, except one disgruntled ex employee, Sven has the support of nearly all of Larian’s staff. Using an available tool when hitting a tough spot is a good thing. Not using that tool when it would help is stupidity. AI is here to stay. We don’t have to like it, but we cannot stop it.

Ronald Reagan and his puppeteers are the reason the Cheeto is despoiling the Oval Office today. Reagan was the first visible node of a cancer that threatens to be terminal.

A question for the absolutist anti-AI crowd. Exactly which technology have we discovered or created that was turned off and put back in the bottle, so to speak? Please, give me just one invention that we said, oh, no, this is just too dangerous, we are going to pretend we never discovered it.

@larianstudios.com You are doing great work. In re. an occasional GenAI input, people really need to get off their high horses and sanctimonious soapboxes. Oh, no! The Internet takes away from libraries! The printing press takes away from scribes! You all just keep on making great games.

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Strongly regional, sometimes even as isolated as specific neighborhoods.

Hmm… are you removing out conscious from the universe? I mean to say, isn’t everything defined and limited to the laws of physics, quantum, Newtonian, or otherwise?

I am not saying that ChatGPT or the current generation of LLMs is conscious. I am simply taking the position that when we can no longer tell if something is conscious or not, should we not then consider that thing as being conscious?

Protective, comfy, and basically necessary?

Agreed, particularly on a social media platform limited to a few hundred characters, to be sure. But it is a good thing to ponder, I think.

Also, the idea simply made me think. There is prolly a shit ton of confirmation bias with that study, and I would love to see the criteria and someone else confirm the findings, but the idea is novel.

I was speaking in the much more expansive sense. Do you think our consciousness derives from some transcendental place, or is it a function of the laws of nature, chemistry, biology, etc? If the latter, then can you define, purely subjectively, obv, when you think something is conscious?

The only organization that has merited my membership renewal every year.

Why so aggressive?

I am literally sitting in the woods right now.

Are we so filled with hubris that we believe only our reality gets to define consciousness and life? Is it possible for an AI, then, to ever deserve rights or consideration as a conscious entity?

respond like they experience emotion and empathy. Are those people not conscious or fully human? If an LLM can mimic human emotion and empathy, is it not possible to argue that it has the some level of consciousness?

I don't understand. If our consciousness is a function of the laws of physics and some quantum randomness, why would we deny the possibility that an AI like GPT is not exhibiting some form of consciousness? People with severe emotional challenges often lack full empathy, but they can learn to

But why? Understanding that GPT does not yet have autonomy and 'consciousness', why, of something appears to be conscious, has the aspects of empathy, could we not consider it conscious? Are you implying that AI will never have true consciousness? Or is it a case of 'not yet'?

But why? Understanding that GPT does not yet have autonomy and 'consciousness', why, of something appears to be conscious, has the aspects of empathy, could we not consider it conscious? Are you implying that AI will never have true consciousness? Or is it a case of 'not yet'?

‘Aight. I’ve done my Joplin working music list, I’ve done delta blues; now what?