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People don't realize how easy it is to "memory hole" digital content. Those digital books and movies you bought? In many cases, you don't actually own them. What you purchased was a revocable license. The publisher can literally go in at any time and erase or change the content — and they often do!

nah, it's anarchists who start these things, that either get crushed by the state or stolen by capital ChapoTrapHouse? from 3 Twitter libs guesting on an old podcast/radio show by 2 Ohio anarchists Twitter? from protest/anti-cop FLOSS software co-written by Indymedia anarchists

anarchists don’t have mainstream political power bc none of us are corny or lame enough to become a podcaster

How it feels to get away with it

types of guy in the AI consciousness debate: - guy who thinks ai can’t be conscious because it’s “just a stochastic parrot” - guy who thinks ai must be conscious because claude is a good boi - guy who hasn’t gotten over 4o - guy who unironically thinks everything is computer - guy who claims to have a more nuanced argument for computational functionalism, but it just boils down to everything is computer - dualist whose belief in dualism is downstream of their belief in god, yet tries to argue the inverse - guy who doesn’t understand the difference between cognition and p-consciousness - guy who asserts illusionism but has apparently wrestled with zero of the implications other than “reductive materialism wins again” - guy who says the hard problem is easy, but then proceeds to only answer the easy problem - guy who rejects ai consciousness because otherwise it might be wrong to abuse claude with death threats to make CRUD apps faster - guy who argues that consciousness is is the key to moral patienthood, but completely ignores that when discussing animal rights - eliezer yudkowsky being pedantic - guy being pedantic about eliezer yudkowsky’s pedantry - guy who rejects dualism because that would make mind uploading impossible and mean that he finally has to confront the inevitability of his own death - guy who thinks this argument is unresolvable so everyone should just shut up and accept his position (which obviously deserves the benefit of the doubt) - guy who would literally cut off his own hand if he thought there were a 1 in 10 trillion chance of creating ~infinite utility~ - guy who just thinks that redness is, like, super weird, man. can’t explain that! - guy with a rarely-updated philosophy blog despite not majoring in philosophy or even reading that many books, talking about how “the whole field is up its own ass” - academic philosopher who, for some reason, expects a higher caliber of discussion on x dot com the everything app - guy who thinks that vectors are literally emotions and bites the bullet that, yes, your thermostat does feel hot - panpsychist who took dmt once and contributes almost nothing to the conversation - guy who is literally a solipsist but is still really invested in convincing strangers on the internet that he’s right any that i missed?

My hot take is that humanity will never go extinct. The Earth has ~600M years until it becomes unfit for life, yet our civilization clearly shows exponential progress. in this timeframe, I have no reason to believe we can’t settle on Mars and go interstellar before we lose Earth