I wouldn’t tell someone they’re wrong if they wanted to blame everyone involved, but I would ask that they overlook the kids who don’t know better.

then do that. If you don’t have enough space, get an external hard drive. If you want convenience, you can attach the hard drive to a raspberry pi and access the music from anywhere. You’ll probably never get as convenient as spotify, but hey, you gotta decide what your values are and if that means being a streaming-vegan then that’s the sacrifice you gotta make.

The ethical alternative is listening to mp3s straight from your own hard-drive, just like we did in the '50s.

Misleading headline. I would wager that 100% of humans alive today will not survive, if we don’t act quickly to resolve senescence.

Soon to be outdated, since there’s going to be a new actor playing Harry Potter. (He’s like, 10 years old or something, so let’s spare him the hate.)

withdraw

Headline is misleading reagarding LGBTQ+ games:

• no evidence that payment processors are asking for the removal of any games for being LGBTQ+, except for
• one person says their SFW LGBTQ+ webcomic was delisted on itch.io,
• I’m speculating, but it’s likely the eventual goal of Collective Shout to go after LGBTQ+ content in general.

Not saying that he should have to do this – but I bet he could apply foundation+concealer to cover them up.

Let’s have a little online conference on lemmy to discuss ways to get people to care more about their privacy. Things might be different than 2010 now:

1. people are definitely waking up to reality of fascism.
2. privacy-conscious apps (both FOSS and closed) are now more convenient than ever.

maybe we just need the correct memes (in the Dawkins sense) to infect people with to make privacy a major issue on people’s minds.

my experience is that normal people just accept it when faced with an inconvenience (such as ads), rather than think about ways to change it.

Hahaha, I didn’t expect that.

I saw Minority Report, and I think it has a plot hole. If you can see the future then you can change it, meaning that if there is any way to relay information from the oracle to the person who would commit the crime, then that could change whether or not the person will commit the crime.

Okay, I agree that the universe may not be Turing-computable, since we don’t know the laws of physics. Indeed, it almost certainly isn’t, since Turing machines are discrete and the universe is continuous – there are integrals, for instance, that have no closed-form, but are physically present in our universe. However, I have no particularly good reason to believe that infinite precision is actually necessary in order to accurately simulate the human brain, since we can get arbitrarily close to an exact simulation of, say, Newtonian physics, or quantum physics minus gravity, using existing computers – by “arbitrarily close,” I mean that for any desired threshold of error, there exists some discretization constant for which the simulation will remain within that error threshold.

Sure, maybe there are more laws of the universe we don’t know and those turn out to be necessary for the human brain to work. But it seems quite unlikely, as we already have a working reductionist model of the brain – it seems like we understand how all the component parts, like neurons and such, work, and we can even model how complex assemblages of neurons can compute interesting things. Like we’ve trained actual rat neurons to play Doom for some ungodly reason, and they obey according to how our models predict. Yeah, maybe there’s some critical missing law of physics, but the current model we have seems sufficient so far as we can tell in order to model the brain.

constantly interacting with the rest of the physical world

I feel like the rest of the world shouldn’t actually matter for the purposes of free will. I mean, yes, obviously our free will responds to the environment. But if the environment disappeared, our free will shouldn’t disappear along with it. In other words, the free will should be either entirely located in the mind, or if you’re not a compatabilist/materialist, it’s located in the mind plus some other metaphysical component. So, I don’t agree that it requires simulating the whole universe in order to simulate a free will (though I do agree that you can’t simulate an actual mind in the real world unless you can simulate all its inputs, e.g. placing the mind in some kind of completely walled-off sensory deprivation environment that has within-epsilon-of-zero interaction with the outside world. Obviously, it’s not very practical, but for a thought experiment about free will I don’t think this detail really matters.)

1. Your argument should not require appealing to desire to have the word computation be less redundant. (I don’t really think there’s a meaningful difference between computation and physics, we just generally use the term computation to refer to physical processes which result in useful information.) But why don’t we define computation as being “anything that can be done on a conventional computer (with sufficient time and memory)” – i.e. Turing-computable.
2. It is not relevant that we may not know all the physical laws of the universe; what matters only is whether there are laws or not. A scientist cannot cause free will to disappear from the universe simply by learning new facts about the laws of physics. (I would argue that if this were apparently true, then there was no free will to begin with.)
3. My understanding of compatabilism is that free will and determinism are compatible; in other words, the laws of physics can give arise to free will (consciousness, as you put it). I think there are some additional twists in compatabilism I don’t entirely understand, but that’s the gist as far as I have seen. In any case, compatabilism seems to me to be compatible with the idea that one can simulate a human brain; since the simulation and the original would produce the same result, then if one has free will, the other must have free will too. _{(Simulating it multiple times will always result in the same thing, which therefore means that it’s the same conscious experience – the same free will – each time, and not different instances of free will. In other words, consciousness is fungible with respect to simulation.)} Simulation=computation, so therefore human creativity is computable.

Please note that I’m not arguing that current AIs actually are on the level of human creativity, just that there’s no law against that eventually being possible.

keepin my fingers crossed for nuclear. 🤞

are you imagining this woman pees standing up…?

the human brain follows the laws of physics; it therefore follows that human creativity is already computational.

🇨🇦 Pretty messed up that the NDP voted yea. :(

I agree that they are not mutually exclusive, which is why I usually side against AI. On this particular occasion however, there’s a palpable difference, since no artist is materially harmed.

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This site would be more compelling if it didn’t look so much like a you wouldn’t steal a car ad.