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byLord Kano
11, 2025 @03:47PM
(#65851921)
Attached to: Why Switzerland Is Weighing a 10 Million Population Limit
No country can afford to take in unlimited refugees. At some point, the answer becomes another question. "How to we raise the standard of living for people in that country because we can not afford to take any more of them here?"
LK
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byLord Kano
2025 @01:47PM
(#65770360)
Attached to: Microsoft AI Chief Says Only Biological Beings Can Be Conscious
The day will come that an AI will learn something that we did not deliberately teach it. When an AI is able to improve its own code, it won't be bound by the limitations of its human creator. It's only a question of when.
LK
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byLord Kano
2025 @12:42PM
(#65770154)
Attached to: Microsoft AI Chief Says Only Biological Beings Can Be Conscious
Can a non-biological entity feel desire? Can it want to grow and become something more than what it is? I think that's a philosophical question and not a technological one.
LK
Don't agree at all and I think that's a morally dangerous approach. We're looking for a scientific definition of "desire" and "want". That's almost certainly a part of "conscious" and "self aware". Philosophy can help, but in the end, to know whether you are right or not you need the experimental results.
Experiments can be crafted in such a way as to exclude certain human beings from consciousness.
One day, it's extremely likely that a machine will say to us "I am alive. I am awake. I want..." and whether or not it's true is going to be increasingly hard to determine.
LK
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byLord Kano
2025 @11:28AM
(#65769872)
Attached to: Microsoft AI Chief Says Only Biological Beings Can Be Conscious
Only if we define consciousness to be a state of awareness only attainable by human beings.
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byLord Kano
2025 @11:27AM
(#65769868)
Attached to: Microsoft AI Chief Says Only Biological Beings Can Be Conscious
An LLM can't suddenly decide to do something else which isn't programmed into it.
Can we?
It's only a matter of time until an AI can learn to do something it wasn't programmed by us to do.
Can a non-biological entity feel desire? Can it want to grow and become something more than what it is? I think that's a philosophical question and not a technological one.
LK
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byLord Kano
2025 @06:00PM
(#65412013)
Attached to: Marvel and DC Announce First Comic Crossover in 22 Years with Deadpool-Batman Pairing
Disney has pleasantly surprised me with how they're dealing with Star Wars. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now.
LK
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byLord Kano
2025 @02:24AM
(#65409721)
Attached to: Marvel and DC Announce First Comic Crossover in 22 Years with Deadpool-Batman Pairing
Sometimes, they write love letters to the fans.
LK
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byLord Kano
2025 @01:53PM
(#65376723)
Attached to: HBO Maxes Out on Rebranding
HBO might not mean anything to Gen Z and later but for us Gen X and earlier, there was still a level of prestige associated with the brand.
It was stupid to throw that away.
LK
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byLord Kano
2025 @12:53PM
(#65376551)
Attached to: Reddit Turns 20
I called it out on another branch of this discussion but I'm talking about things like, someone posts a question that goes something like this:
"Am I The Asshole for declining a second date with the chick I met on Tinder after she told me she was trans?"
Topics like this are ban honeypots because even getting too close to a verboten position will get you banned by Reddit.
I have seen it. I have been threatened with a ban for expressing the opinion that 8 year old children shouldn't be given sex reassignment surgery.
Reddit is toxic.
LK
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byLord Kano
2025 @10:45AM
(#65376151)
Attached to: Reddit Turns 20
I chose that specific example precisely because it's banned on all of reddit. If you say that there is any difference between XX CIS women and XY Trans women, you'll be banned from Reddit.
Ridiculous, right?
LK
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byLord Kano
2025 @09:18AM
(#65375947)
Attached to: Reddit Turns 20
Presumably the OP is referring to any number of subs related to women, women who want to date women, or other subreddits where that discussion is completely germane, and yet here you are banging on about beekeeping as though it's somehow relevant in the slightest.
Or general relationship subreddits.
Someone will ask "Am I transphobic for not going on a second date after this chick I met on Tinder told me she was trans?"
It'll be a ban honeypot.
LK
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byLord Kano
25 @02:53AM
(#65372565)
Attached to: Reddit Turns 20
Good faith disagreements can get you banned from a lot of them.
Someone who is prone to falling in line with group think will likely never encounter it but it's real.
LK
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byLord Kano
25 @02:41AM
(#65372547)
Attached to: Reddit Turns 20
It's a stupid echo chamber full of stupid people who are chasing stupid agendas.
It's a place where they will permanently ban you for suggesting that there is any difference of any kind between XX CIS women and XY Trans women.
It's a place where you'll be mod bombed into oblivion for saying that you wouldn't want to date a current or former sex worker.
It's a place where honest discourse goes to die.
Seriously, fuck Reddit.
LK
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byLord Kano
2025 @02:31AM
(#65341767)
Attached to: It Could Be a $250 Billion Market, But Almost No One Is Interested
It's worth running the numbers.
In 50,000 years, there could be a whole new crop of coal to repeat this whole cycle all over again.
LK
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byLord Kano
2025 @02:24AM
(#65341761)
Attached to: It Could Be a $250 Billion Market, But Almost No One Is Interested
That's the thing about the eco wackos that really burns my ass.
Nuclear is the only viable option for cheap, clean power and they fight it tooth and nail. Solar and wind are great additions but nuclear would give us everything we need.
They don't want that. They're not pushing for thorium power, they're not pushing to update safety standards. They're fighting to shut it all down.
They're not concerned with saving the environment, they're neo-luddites.
Cheap, clean power would do more than anything else within our reach at the moment to improve the lives of everyone on this planet and they oppose it, have you ever wondered why?
LK
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