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Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny
Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?
It’s absurd that whenever I visit San Francisco there are always adverts for like 500 new AI related companies I’ve never heard of, all with very similar logos and no indication of what they actually do. Is this what the dot com bubble was like?
(I might be wrong about this, I don’t know much about those communities. Maybe they are explicitly influenced by philosophical rationalism about knowledge and I’ve missed that. But based on my limited experience with them they aren’t and mean rationalism in a different sense)
In general I also don’t think there is a connection between Rationalism in the philosophy/cartesian sense and rationalism in the pop philosophy online and Silicon Valley sense, besides a name. Not even a misunderstanding or simplification, they‘re just using the same word in very different ways
Of course a physicalist could also say its impossible to replicate the exact physical processes happening in the brain in a machine, so neither are committed to views for or against machine consciousness
And that doesn’t necessarily mean human processes, as I think we can state at this point that different things can have very different evolution, experiences, and makeup of consciousness but still be conscious (octopus obviously have it very different to humans)
Believing in Cartesianism/dualism seems to give far more room to say that AI can never be sentient, as they’ll never get that non physical “soul”, “fundamental mind force” etc that is required for sentience, whilst a physicalist could say replicating physical makeup of sentience gives it
But that doesn’t seem to be related to questions about physicalist vs dualism. Neither are committed to only thinking in terms of outside behaviour of the subject versus inside feelings.
Looks like it has a lot in general but very few overseas. Given the importance of the area in British history going back millennia, remotely near many Neolithic sites, Romans, early English people etc, could be related to that.
If anything it seems either view is very suited to both accepting or denying the possibility of ever getting conscious AI, in different ways, but it seems far easier for a dualist to deny its ever possible
Maybe I’m just being stupid, I’m not a philosopher of mind, but I don’t see why believing in possible machine consciousness requires dualism. That’s not to say that current LLMs have it (they don’t), but the possibility of it seems to fit very well with a standard physicalist view
Red-tailed Hawk doing its best Exorcist impression #birds
Red-tailed Hawk doing its best Exorcist impression #birds
Given Ian Fleming was a birder (and the real person named James Bond being an ornithologist) there is a distinct lack of bird themed Bond things honestly
It’s certainly accurate, name another type of bird that got a James Bond movie
As someone who grew up in Los Angeles and also had to move to Ohio for work, I have never sympathized with James Harden more
As someone who lived in (the suburbs of) LA for their PhD and now lives in Ohio for work, I get this.
I’ve spent the season checked out and waiting for Burnley to get relegated. Didn’t expect the possibility of you lot going down with us though
I had actually seen an American Kestrel before (though only once, in Argentina), I just never got a picture of one
I now have a matching picture for one of my first bird photos. European Kestrel in 2020, American Kestrel in 2026 #birds
39 years ago, there were only 27 California condors in the world. As of 2025, we now have 607, including 392 that are living free in the wild.
"Put that in your doom and smoke it" -Ursula Vernon
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Also, what exactly does he think Labour have been doing for the past year?
I never liked football anyway
Why I think, in the current A.I. moment, we should be reading Paul Churchland. #philsky #philsci
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She joined the party when she was younger reportedly more as a social club and much of her social life has revolved around it. That obviously leads to an emotional connection to the party that voters don’t have
I think it is but in different ways. The Tories jettisoned much of what made them Tories on the alter of Brexit, potentially killing the party. Labour have decided to not change anything and pretend they’re still in a pre Brexit world, potentially killing the party.
It probably is, I can’t work out why else they’d name him that. But he just never seemed to have the same attachment to Labour that Kemi had to the Tories. He did the classic jump around various left wing organisations, not the “make the party my life” thing
I get it with Kemi, her life has been based around the Conservative Party as a social thing. I just can’t work out why Starmer is so emotionally invested in Labour in the same way
