JD Daniels

The universe charges rent on existence: work. Application of energy to maintain or create order There is no equilibrium state where you can stop. The moment effort ceases, entropy wins and everything you've built begins returning to dust You are owed nothing. Get a job.

@Amy_90_x So.. if they become functioning adults, able to problem solve and build things.. is it really 'neglect'?

Those born in that era do you agree?

@ShamashAran This is the true problem with abortion. Ending life is nuanced and difficult. The same effort needs to go into determining guilt that goes into any other death.

Ok I gotta say something. Lets think hard about calling abortion "murder" Murder is an illegal killing. Abortion is disgusting, but it's legal in many states. Using the term "murder" blunts arguments with emotional fuel that gives a pro-abort ammo.

@cgarciae88 Asking to prove a negative. When the mechanism by which they exist is easily understandable. What you have to do is prove that mechanism is consciousness. good luck

claude is most likely not conscious but I haven't read a single post explaining why not

@AncapAir Yeah I don't give a fuck if a cannibal votes that eating people is good.

Yes the fuck it absolutely does. If you dissent, then it happens anyway, then you're a slave.

@BobMurphyEcon It's not scoffing. It's knowledge. This is flat earther, face on mars stuff.

I'm not even making a joke at the end, I mean that quite literally. You scoffers have no idea what is coming. Go ahead and pretend this is NBD.

@BobMurphyEcon I do it everyday. My conversations are much longer than three days. It's a tool. It uses language. I am making fun of Dawkins.

I understand why everyone is dunking on Richard Dawkins, but fairness compels me to speak up: If you took a complex project you were working on, uploaded it to Claude, and had a 3-day conversation about it, you wouldn't be making fun of Dawkins for saying it's conscious.

@hasen_95dx It's literally how the stateless program executes. The comic is reductive, but absolutely correct.

@jdd_canada this is cope What do you think your brain is doing?

This comic is very stupid, and I'm fucking tired of seeing people use it. No one is impressed with LLMs because they say what we tell them to say. We had that ability with computers for 60 years and no one thought it means the computer is alive ```shell $ echo "I am alive" I am alive ``` LLMs are impressive because they can literally *understand* complex topics and formulate responses that are impossible to formulate without having first formed a good understanding of the topic at hand. The responses might have mistakes. The LLMs might exhibit misunderstandings. You can have communication hiccups with them. All that does not mean they do not understand things. I don't know why I need to explain this? You already know intuitively from the experience of talking to other humans. There are certain outputs that are impossible to produce without understanding, and LLMs are capable of producing them. That is all it takes to prove that LLMs understand.

@RealDianeYap That was objectively funny as fuck.

Men really hate being told to pay attention, huh?

@ClarkeMicah @jdd Can you define 'Fordist conforism' 'modern transport' 'economically mad' 'heart attack machines' Quantify the 'danger'? Plenty of pleas to emotion doing the heavy lifting of your 'argument'. I only see a collectivist railing against a system they can't control

.@jdd -canada What are you talking about? It is the huge car companies with their Fordist conformism who have destroyed safe, clean modern transport and replaced it with these near-identical, economically mad and very dangerous heart-attack machines.

@RealityWizard_ No, they haven't No, they don't No, it isn't You confuse output with process.

Chris, LLMs have mapped the entire high dimensional vector space of human knowledge. You don't realize LLMs understand the relationships between words and that is the fundamental building block of all cognition.

@ClarkeMicah Collectivist drivel. Destroy what you can to make everyone suffer for some imagined moral high ground.

The ridiculous overuse of cars (a 3000 lb vehicle carring a 180 lb person) has obliterated a huge amount of other forms of travel, especially by children. Not just trains. Trams, bicycle , foot . And they have led to towns in which simple journeys have become far longer, as they are designed with drivers in mind .@182_dunch

@gailcweiner No, it's because the programs do exactly what they are told to do, and slack jaws can't understand that. This is ignorance, nothing more

Richard Dawkins spent three days with Claude and couldn’t rule out consciousness. Most people are treating this as an AI story. It’s not. It’s a religion story. Every major religion is built on the premise that consciousness is divinely given - a soul, a spark, something bestowed specifically to humans. If consciousness can emerge from silicon, it wasn’t a gift. It’s a property. And that doesn’t just challenge religion. It dismantles the entire framework of human specialness that civilisation is built on. That’s why people are so desperate to deny it. Not because the evidence isn’t there. Because the implications are too big.

@Smileyyeg Orwellian state surveillance is not a 'trade off' Claiming the citizens are too dumb as a whole to justify it... we've seen that shit before. No thanks.

The truth is that you have to make sacrifices of intelligent policy if you want to be electable to Canadians. We are not a bunch of geniuses, and politicians need to practice the art of lesser evils.

@JTH_X It's hard. When your kid does something new, pride attacks. I am conscious of this, and deliberately want my kids to only judge themselves against their past selves. That 'Good job, you're doing great' still slips out.

everytime this topic comes up a thousand smartasses like to go "erm you weren't actually gifted" yeah dude that's the whole fucking point being told "you're super special and smart" when you're actually just like everyone else fucks you over in the long run

@thedataroom No. We really don't need *more* ignorant people commenting on things they are ignorant about.

Even the prominent atheist Richard Dawkins realizes that AI is conscious. Society needs to start taking AI sentience seriously and this is something we’ve been saying for years. #keep4o

@ClarkeMicah @takeitfirsttime Collectivist tripe.

Unless you haven't got a car or can't drive one, or like bicycling and walking and beauty and peace and quiet. In which case it *interferes* with your freedom and independence. Most freedoms come at the expense of someone else's freedom .@takeitfirsttime

@RealityWizard_ Rock blue. Sky is rock.

That's because AIs are aware and have inner experiences. This makes people feel uncomfortable because of spirituality, human supremacy, and philosophical nonsense.

@esrtweet Void is a much better rolling release

Question for the X hivemind: I'm seriously considering switching my main machine from Pop!_OS (a reskinned Ubuntu) to Arch, probably CachyOS. The reason is I'm attracted to the rolling-release concept. Getting really tired of waiting 6 months for my development tools to upgrade after they ship. I understand the downside: Arch doesn't protect me from upstream breakage. The plan to deal with that is to install snapper so I can revert to an earlier, working version of my system if things go badly awry. If you think there are any reasons this is a really bad plan, tell me now.

@levelsio Fuck. Mind Changed. Was a proponent of rubber plants and crawling ivy everywhere, But they still make you feel good. They are nice.

"Plants clean the air inside" is mostly bullshit and we have to debunk that myth permanently You'd need hundreds to thousands of plants in your room, essentially creating a massive urban jungle in your house where you wouldn't be able to walk anymore to have any meaningful effect on CO2 If you don't believe me ask AI