It’s hilarious that they’re still going without Jello Biafra.

fully conscious according to any test I can think of

There’s no such thing as an actual test for consciousness in machines. We can do tests on animals to see if their sensory experience includes self-awareness, but we’re already operating on the assumption that they have feelings and sensory experience because they have a brain and nervous system like us, and they’re all directly related to us (as all organisms are). But that’s totally different from designing a machine which mimics (or predicts/auto-completes) our observable behavior and then assuming that it “doesn’t like” something or does anything “for fun.”

What sucks is that some idiots are going to start falling for this. And eventually software will be given human rights, which actually means that the software’s owners will have extra rights compared to the rest of us.

I think I’d rather just play the original

Very cool

yeah a whole battalion of tanks

I found Waldo

That’s why I greased the trees.

This is possibly a popular idea.

exports are subject to tariffs, only religious people can be saved. So printing is the secular, free trade choice.

It really is

Right I forgot this was 2026

That is not a 12-million dollar earners’ kitchen

Just a pure Rust computer. No operating system, just Rust.

I don’t think he’s a real person. Real estate agent? This person would be unemployable. I bet it’s a lame propaganda bot.

I don’t think he’s actually a real estate agent. I think he’s a bot, and the bot’s character is “real estate agent” because his feed is only right wing memes.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-gainey-031b65136/recent-activity/all/

I’m doomscrolling his linkedin page and it’s non-stop idiotic garbage. I stopped at the GDP chart explaining why Alberta shouldn’t be “trapped” in Canada.

They were stupid movies. They strained for a convoluted excuse to rehash familiar characters instead of moving the franchise and the world forward. JJ Abrams publicly said that he wasn’t even a fan of the show, and said that Star Trek was “too philosophical.” Good riddance.

I’m currently reading Lawrence Krauss’ book “A Universe from Nothing”, and in between the excellent descriptions of our ideas about the big bang and the evolution of the universe he’s constantly sneering and lashing out against religion for absolutely no reason. There’s no relevance for these outbursts at all, but there are 16 pages of preface raging against the idea that some people believe that the word “nothing” means “absolute nothingness” instead of “space” (which is truly an active thing) plus a whole Orwellian doublespeak chapter about how nothing is actually something.

Damn. Time to get rid of nova launch.