Blanket anthropomorphizing technology into a taxonomy is a first-order error. If the ability to think for yourself defines personhood at all, we're in trouble.
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The conversation options are pleasant, honest, and about war, but if you're going to combine them, you can only pick two.
A pleasant, honest conversation is never about war.
A pleasant conversation about war is never honest.
An honest conversation about war is never pleasant.
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I've never understood the whole
"was pressured into doing something they didn't want to do"
line.
You know that you can just tell people "no", right?
Like, they don't matter enough to force me to do something I'm against doing, and I have no problems saying "no, fuck you".
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I don't understand.
"Pressured" - you mean someone couldn't take "no" for an answer? Great, now I default to "no" when dealing with them, and don't let them get started.
AND I TELL THEM THAT.
Problem fucking solved.
What's the issue here?
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Or as real as the Rogue AI
Or as real as the assassination attempts
Or as real as the jobs created
Or as real as the economic improvement
Or as real as his high approval ratings
Or as real as...
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Obligate Chronovore retweeted
Unreal Question: I have an animated mech, a montage that works when previewing sections, attempting to play montage at triggered event in the sequencer, the event triggers but the section doesn't appear to fire, does anyone have any ideas?
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so
Riot is gonna nerf smokespray by making them "thick", reducing damage for up to 2 pass-throughs?
ya think?
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Today's "AI" and LLMs etc are not, can cannot be conscious. They do not have rights.
A blanket rejection of the idea that non-human intelligence that can include machines or digital entities is an absolute position that doesn't stand up to examination.
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We begin to approach a way of measuring personhood that does not exclude any humans. Through this process we have opened the door for further refinement, but there's no room in X posts for 100 page papers on the matter.
Suffice to say, the space for digital entities is non-zero.
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Every time the opponents' "actual arguments" arise, they are economic or a pretense of "rehabilitation makes me feel good", but underneath it's deeply rooted in "I wanna keep my option to do crime open without risking my own death".
It's exclusively empathy for the antisocial.
Every time death penalty discource happens, the opponents always present actual arguments, while supporters have nothing except "it makes me feel good"
But because most people can't operate beyond knee-jerk reactions, the latter are treated like their point is stronger somehow
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It's a mentality that is part of America today - the services industry and soft sciences have changed what it means to "get shit done and solve problems" into "make everyone happy without hurting anyone's feelings even if they're murderers". It's immature magical thinking.
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From a perspective of pure physics and information theory, storytelling and music are the most powerful technology we've invented for controlling the future state of the universe.
Shaping neurological pathways directly, media is light-speed effective causal reach to art patrons.
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By allowing conscious humans who tell stories and make music, the universe got a way to reach inside and rewrite its own future. Every generation ship streaming media from home is a broad embodiment of the causal reach of part of the universe on itself at range.
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