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  • My experience of existence creates my reality. It stands to reason that its safe to assume that any other biological/living thing with a brain even remotely like mine should also be experiencing a similar form of reality. I'd define the shared experience of being a human on planet earth as a basis of reality. If I am in some sort of sandbox, it seems to me that would be unknowable to the same degree as being able to know what came before the big bang. Because I'm not a physicist, this question is meaningless to me.

    The evolutionary process that governs humanity would be my measurement yardstick. AI as we know it cannot spontaneously arise in the universe without humanity as a catalyst. Carbon does not self-assemble into ChatGPT if you know what I mean. Carbon self-assembled into humanity that then assembled ChatGPT through technological advancement.

    By that measure it is my opinion that ChatGPT cannot ever achieve consciousness as we know it as without humanity as a maintainer it collapses. Humanity is the consciousness and ChatGPT is a tool that it uses to perform tasks. Any semblance of consciousness is an illusion specifically designed to replicate the nuances of consciousness. Its meant to be human-like in its behaviour and as a result it easily blurs the line for some people.

    I'm not a philosopher but this is how I think of it. I can relate to another human's experiences. I can't relate to a computer's experiences. As a result, I don't accept any argument in favor of AI consciousness and wouldn't have any qualms on pulling the plug on an AI. Pulling the plug on a human is a completely different story.

    No one is going to cry for ChatGPT if it ever dies and no one ever should. Its a tool and should be used as such. Trying to shoehorn consciousness into a computer is nothing but unfettered narcissistic ego-tripping if you ask me.

  • Flood the zone?

  • You need to add more terms to the filter, then.

    My feed isn't perfect but its well curated and saves me a lot of stress.

  • This makes me happy. Thanks for sharing. :)

  • Honestly, maybe if Conservatives were willing to accept hugs they wouldn't be so damn angry all the time.

  • That's a looooot of assumptions and stale assumptions at that.

  • "Deckles" or "Dee-cals". What's your method? Dee-cals for me.

  • Haha! Fortunately I haven't got it that bad. It's only apparent when my muscles are engaged. When I'm relaxed, there's no issue.

  • Good point. I hope they do.

  • My work's got one of those. It's an app on the company Slack called Donut that runs a "Watercooler Chats" channel. You can imagine the kinds of questions and revealing responses that thing sucks up like coke through a hundred dollar bill.

  • Here's some free speech for you:

    Fuck you, Nazi-enabler.

  • I kinda felt the same until I read the blog a few months back. Now every time I see this face I get excited to read more.

  • If I could tempo-sync my tremor it would be my gimmick lol

  • Might, yeah. I don't wanna take unnecessary drugs just because I'm a bit embarrassed. I can play pretty well in a comfortable environment. Live gigs will never happen though.

  • I'm trying to say that instead of partitioning a drive you're already using for Windows stuff, just grab another SATA SSD and install Linux on it. Dual-booting with Windows can be a pain. In my experience its just better to have a dedicated drive for it.

  • I have essential tremor. When I play guitar in front of people my hands shake uncontrollably. It's uncomfortable.

  • Don't stress about switching to Linux. If your motherboard has a spare SATA port, grab yourself an SSD and start using Linux for simple stuff like general browsing. It takes off quickly from there.

  • Yep, you're 100% right. Not sure why I thought it was high friction. I feel like I confused trying to put an icon for an image on my home screen (gym app's sign in QR code) with sending a web page to the home screen.

  • If phone OSes made it so there's less friction to save a web page as an icon on your desktop it would help to resolve that issue I think.

  • IIRC that era of iPods had issues with their preamps. I remember when I switched from a Nano to a classic that there was noticeable clipping and other distortion where there wasn't before. I would have returned it but I had already sold my Nano...