That also works. That’s how you get gems like therock.fraggle-rock.org

If that happens you can just create an account on another instance and move your data over. Thats the beauty of Lemmy’s federated design

Lemmy will never betray you like this

At no point did I say this was my view. You said “theories of mind don’t involve computer programs” so I sent you one that does, to show that your statement isn’t necessarily correct. More broadly, I am simply pointing out the a diversity of views exist, and there is no consensus, so we cannot say we know what causes consciousness, like you did earlier. At this point though I don’t really feel like continuing the conversation because your excessive immaturity makes talking to you a chore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_theory_of_mind

The theory you’re discussing is called eliminative materialism (or illusionism) and it’s detailed in the link I sent you, along with a host of other metaphysical theories. Like every other theory eliminative materialism has significant issues

Whether or not LLMs are conscious depends on what theory of consciousness you are working on, and there is no universally accepted theory of consciousness. Every theory of consciousness is controversial, and most experts would probably agree that the correct theory has yet to be discovered. The point is that we simply don’t know enough about consciousness to confidently say which systems have it and which systems don’t.

With all due respect, you simply do not know what you are talking about. Here is some info on this topic if you are all interested in learning more

This is a very ignorant comment. Consciousness is legitimately the greatest unsolved problem in modern science and philosophy.

I usually disagree with you about everything but I think you have a valid point here. This was an issue I studied very closely when I was in university, and you’re right, no one has the slightest clue how consciousness works. Saying “oh ChatGTP is just a statistical machine so it can’t be conscious” is like saying “oh the human brain is just a bunch of neural firings so it can’t produce consciousness”. In both cases, consciousness is not an obvious end result, but here we are.

That said, personally I don’t think ChatGTP is conscious, but it’s wrong for people to act like it being a philosophical zombie is obvious; the possibility of it being conscious is actually compatible with most nonreligious people’s belief systems already. Unfortunately the anti-AI hate on Lemmy won’t allow people to see the nuance on this discussion and they will interperet this as me somehow defending AI slop, which I am in no way trying to do.

Yeah seriously that article paints a really dark picture

This is true. Ontario made online sports gambling legal and now the rest of Canada is inundated with online gambling ads whenever there’s a hockey game, and it’s causing an in increase in the number of people who say they have a gambling problem. In principle though it should be possible to ban the ads while keeping the service legal still

I know Elon Musk has a lot of kids. Are there any other billionaires with a lot of kids?

It’s also legitimately impossible to fully regulate this (besides shutting them down altogether, for which I’m totally on board)

This might just push it to the black market. It’s been pretty hard to shut down online gambling for reasons like this. Of course making illegal will dissuade some users but it won’t stamp it out entirely

dbzer0 mentions problems with anti ai trolls

Is dbzer0 pro AI?

18 seems like a crazy high age for this

Is this for real?

Meshtastic does seem very cool

What can I, as a regular guy, do to help make this happen?

Beautiful