It’s well past time to nationalize starlink. Spacex too.

Our tax dollars built those companies. There’s absolutely no reason to let a drugged up nazi keep all the profit and continue making incorrect decisions.

Yes! Exactly that.

Ah, i see. I’d not clocked all that “again” implied.

It’s not a guess, he said so on camera.

They’re input-output-machines, very dissimilar to a human brain for example.

Was that a typo, did you mean very similar?

My understanding is that conciousness is just an information sorting process. Most mobile predators use consciousness, for example, because it’s a lifeway that requires a lot of information processing - success requires many different behaviours (outputs) based on a lot of different details (inputs). Immobile filter-feeders on the other hand require much less information processing, since their inputs/outputs are fewer and consistent.

We don’t imagine an llm to have a psyche/soul, which is what most of us are really thinking about when we talk about conciousness - some kind of ineffable me-ness that’s in control.

Leaving aside what we imagine about conciousness, the actual information processing a human brain does is very teachable to an llm.

(As an aside, llms do change over time, and can store information. It’s much easier to get them to break safety guidelines after more interaction, using a request that would’ve been denied at first. And being digital they can store and re-access information as any application can.)

Thank you! Must be an mbin/lemmy diference cause it was correctly formatted for me. I just made it bullet points so it’s clear for all.

It depends what you mean by “like d&d”. I’ve heard the phrase is used by different groups to mean:

• Has a generic fantasy setting
• Has similar mechanics to d&d
• Has bad mechanics
• Has dice mechanics
• Is mostly about fighting
• Is a trad game
• Is not a story game
• Is an RPG
• Is not cool

Yeah i think $20/h with a 30h work week and free housing would be minimum liveable. Realistically, $30/h and free housing should be a comfortable, modest life.

No, not even if it’s a 32h work week and the job is meaningful.

My rent is notably below market rates for my area at $1200/month. At a 32h work week free rent is worth ~$8.5/h, for a total of ~$23.5/h.

I currently work a meaningful job with a 32h week @ $21.5, which will go up to $25/h when i complete certification in ~6 months. Plus i can live with my wife.

I think if you’re gaming out some socialist system in your head you could easily double it to $30/h with fewer rich parasites hording wealth.

AP should not be printing the regime’s lies - the US does not believe the ICC has become politicized.

The republican regime wants to continue committing and supporting crimes against humanity and they don’t want to be treated like the criminals they are.

The state was made aware well in advance of this that she had a medical condition that was going to prevent the lethal injection from working.

They knew that this was the only possible outcome but went ahead anyway because performative cruelty is the core conservative value.

It’s not clear from the article if she’s angry at what happened (rightly) or angry and confused as a state of conciousness.

When my dad regained conciousness from a stroke he was angry and confused for days. He’s an absolute sweetie and had to be tied down.

Modern phones have notoriously poor thrust.

Back in my day a nokia could achieve escape velocity and act as a heatshield for re-entry. But alas it had no way to tell you to make pizza with glue.

Digging stick

All new things are just existing things put together or modified very slightly.

People talk about iphones being this moment of ingenuous creation, but we already had phones, mobile phones, webcams, texting, predictive text, applications, touch screens, mobile web browsers, mobile games, video calling, etc. Even the concept was fairly well-trod in fiction. There was literally new about the first smartphone.

A hafted spear is an incredible innovation, but we already had fully wooden spears, sharp rocks, string and adhesive resins before we put them together. Like a smart phone, that tool opens up new options and lifeways that weren’t viable before, though not a single input is new.

because it literally can’t innovate.

I was with you 100% until this. “Innovation” is super easy. It will always be easy to extrapolate new things from existing things. People just over-romanticize “innovation” as some kind of magic.

I think chances are good that human produced newness will be on average more useful, complete and safe.

Cool! Yeah the depictions there look more realistic than this unbound guy just chilling as he is executed.

It’s probably a funny depiction of trepination, right?

The drilling, sawing or scraping of holes in the skull is one of the earliest medical procedures we have evidence for. It relieves pressure and brain swelling. As gruesome as it sounds, it was quite survivable and people survived multiple trepinations deep into prehistory.

Once you get hospitals in the medieval period the survival rate drops - don’t be in a room of sick people when your skull has a hole in it.

taught me to tie my shoes correctly.

If your shoes have laces, you’ve already done it incorrectly.

Belief that heirarchies are natural and desirable because some people are better than others is the worldview required to be vulnerable to the lie of fascism, it’s the precursor to all supremacist thinking.

If you look at opinion polling across countries, die-hard support for supremacist candidates hovers around 25-40%. Die hard as in will support those candidates no matter how poorly they’re doing. Support levels wax and wane as anxiety goes up and down, or as supremacist candidates tend to be winning or losing, but the core support base for authoritarian ideals routinely comes out around 25-40% across most western countries.