

You’re not directly paying them, but by being here and contributing to the community, you’re providing value to others who would then go on to donate to the devs.


You’re not directly paying them, but by being here and contributing to the community, you’re providing value to others who would then go on to donate to the devs.


Oh, so much. I’m still trying to figure out how to actually complete things.


Tolerance is tangential to humanization. You can be tolerant of a human. You can also be intolerant of a human.


but once I’m done, I close them all
Same. But I also have a continuous stream of new projects that never get finished.


Whenever I see the term “consciousness” in a paper, it automatically gets flagged in my head as non-serious. But I work in AI, so maybe that shouldn’t apply to whatever your field is. That brings me to the next problem: I can’t figure out what your field is supposed to be from this paper. It’s lacking the background and prior work sections that would serve to position your work into the greater context of existing work.


Do you use this for physical machines too?


Depends on how reliable you need this system to be. For example, do you need to handle the scenario where an adult verifies their age to access a website, then lets a minor use that website in their place? That would be a much harder problem to solve than if you just need to verify that an adult was present on the other end at one point in time. For the latter, device-based age verification seems to be trivial to set up from a technical standpoint while fulfilling that criterion.


prepare for what situations you run into where you know it’s possible to be stabbed
And what might those preparations look like? How does one prepare for that, as well as for the possibility of getting shot, or being run over by a car while on the sidewalk, or getting mugged/pickpocketted, or getting your credit card information stolen, or having your home being broken into and ransacked, or someone picking up your infant and running away with them, or having your drink/food spiked, etc.
Get a vaccine. Nobody should every be able to take that right from you.
A vaccine is never 100% effective. If it were, then we wouldn’t be having this conversation in the first place. 3% of people receiving the measles vaccine don’t get immunity, and there’s those who can’t get the vaccine because they’re too young, or are immunocompromised in some way. What option would they have for dealing with their own lives without controlling others?


So I can legally/morally stab someone who tried to stab me? How is that at all helpful? I don’t want to stab anyone.
How would this translate to the measles situation? If someone gives me measles, then I’m allowed to give them back measles? But they already have measles. That’s how they were able to transmit it. And I’ll still have gotten the disease. I want to maintain my health and not get infected in the first place.


There are people who are fully owners and don’t do any labour, and those who subsist entirely on their labour and don’t own anything. Would it be fair to say that the middle class is anyone who works but still owns a non-zero amount of appreciating or revenue-generating assets?


Easy for computers doesn’t mean it’s easy for humans, and vice versa.


But you cannot defy the laws of thermodynamics, so if you make anything colder, you need to absorb the energy to do so and vice versa. First time using this power and you accidentally made something too cold? Sounds like you just burned to death.


In the eyes of the universe, everything is simply an effect. There are no side-effects, so nothing you can redo despite having that ability.


Depending on the person, this might be a bonus.


Alright, I guess that’s fairly relatable then.


Calories are expensive, and I’m not made of money.


Real. Give me a state of the art lab for multidisciplinary scientific research and some of the world’s best scientists to do as they wish in that lab. I have so many unanswered questions about the universe.


You’re not the first person I’ve seen complain about nepotism in the party. Would you have any readings to share for someone who doesn’t know anything about it and wants to be better informed?


I was under the impression that hearing loss is usually a gradual thing.
We’re you not just arguing against having laws to disallow stabbing? If not, then I’m not clear on what you mean by “controlling others”.
Couldn’t this also apply to abuse of power? Accepting that there’s the possibility of bad outcomes, and that’s the cost of certain benefits, like protecting everyone from some easily preventable causes of death. It sounds like maybe what you’re arguing for isn’t that exerting control over others in and way is universally bad, but rather that bodily autonomy needs to be protected above all. But if that’s the case, I don’t understand why you think it’s only acceptable to protect it by not actively doing something that violates bodily autonomy, and why it’s not okay to actively protect bodily autonomy (e.g. preventing others from inserting undesirable sharp objects into your body, whether that be a knife or an injection or anything else).
I agree that centralization is power is problematic, but this is a whole other problem independent of bodily autonomy. Unless you’re saying that controlling others is only bad when it’s done by a central power? But you’re also making arguments against mandatory vaccination in general, so I’m still unclear on what your stance is.