You’re the dumbass who said that when they killed the white women’s families and forced them to marry blacks, it wasn’t sex slavery because the women were married. I don’t feel inclined to listen to you about the racial politics of anything.
I agree that many times they won’t, but to suggest that there aren’t any noticeable losses seems implausible.
See, that’s reasonable, but it also is an acknowledgment that you understand I’m not using the words literally. Why can’t you just say “I understand that cuck is slang for someone who doesn’t hold to their principles or has certain leftist beliefs, but I don’t like that use of it”? Insisting that it doesn’t and can’t mean what it is commonly used to mean is purposefully obtuse.
I would understand an argument of “I think it’s distasteful.” It’s the complete refusal to understand the concept of slang that really throws me off.
If I ask what the hell your problem is, dog, do you intend to put forth that you are neither a canine nor among the damned?
It’s a direct response to an argument put forth in video description you posted:
But how can some forms of matter possess consciousness while others do not? After all, our brains are composed of the same atoms and molecules as the rest of the universe.
Responding to something you posted is hardly “missing the point of the thread.”
Yeah, but u/RoccoRatchet only accepts “cuck” as a literal word for someone whose spouse cheats on them. He’s done this same dance in other threads. I don’t know if he’s somehow unable to comprehend metaphor, or if it’s just this word. It’s quite bizarre.
Our bodies are composed of the same atoms and molecules as the sun. Why don't we make sunlight?!
The degree to which we understand nuclear processes and the degree to which we understand consciousness are literally multiple orders of magnitude off from each other.
Completely missing the point, which is that the same atoms and molecules arranged in different ways do drastically different things. The argument that “our brains have the same molecules as [any other thing], therefore [other thing] should be able to perform the functions of a brain” is vacuous. That was the point.
It’s good to have goals.
No, I really just find you mildly annoying.
Actually, I think they’re reporting OP as a brigader because she’s a bit of a loony schizo TERF who doesn’t really belong here.
But their code of conduct includes these gems:
Politeness is expected at all times. Be kind and courteous.
Always assume positive intent from others. Be aware that differences in culture and English proficiency make written communication more difficult than face-to-face communication and that your interpretation of messages may not be the one the author intended. Conversely, if someone asks you to rephrase something you said, be ready to do so without feeling judged.
You will be excluded from participating in the community if you insult, demean, harass, intentionally make others uncomfortable by any means,
Saying things like “that community manager is dumb/sabotaging the project/shouldn’t be in this position/etc” technically violates this reatrdedly loose code of conduct. Of course, the community manager arguably violated it themselves, but I don’t have much faith they’ll follow through logically with consequences for that.
I've been reading it as gaw dough. Should I have been reading it Go Dot? Wikipedia says it's named after the play, which is "gaw dough," so should I read their hashtag as Wah Koh? Even the pun is stupid.
Is it anti-trust, then? I don’t know the exact proper legal terminology, but your suit alleges that they have too much market influence, essentially?
No, I get that, I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying that as I understand the technology, we have every reason to believe that we’re already pretty good at predictive algorithms and that we can become really, really, really good, but I’m not convinced that—regardless of how much processing power and data you feed into the algorithm—it would ever make the leap to being independently alive and aware.
In other words, I’m sure we can get something that functions like Skynet because someone, somewhere, fucked up and fed it training data or a query or whatever that led its algorithm to output “wipe out humanity.” But we assume because of the expository dialogue that Skynet is truly alive. It thinks, it reacts, it’s self-aware. I’m not sure we can ever get that.
The guy you’re talking to is a spamming troll who makes sock puppet accounts to talk about how much he wants a 12 year-old wife. Not really worth engaging with on any level.
You could certainly get a computer into the same zone of wondering if it's truly a unique being or not.
But could you really? Or would you just be getting it to return outputs that say it’s pondering? Cleverbot, right now, can be prompted to say “I’m thinking about [whatever],” and from a certain perspective it is looking up responses based on inputs related to that topic, but I don’t think any of us believe that what it’s doing really counts. I’m thinking of Searle’s Chinese Room, mostly with this.
But yes, obviously such a program could do something terrifying regardless of whether it actually thinks or it just happens to land on [proper response: deploy global neurotoxin] or whatever. The question of whether it’s aware is mostly moot at a certain point.
Are we sure that AI is possible? Really, really good predictive pattern recognition algorithms, sure. The application of those algorithms in such a way that it can be instructed to make something that is essentially new, probably. An actual consciousness that thinks and acts and takes initiative on its own? I’m not sure.
Well, in Frieren specifically, the point is that the demons are very much not human. They are intelligent, logical, they can think, they can reason, but on a certain level there are things (most emotions, friendship, the idea of a life having inherent value) that they can never, ever understand. It's just fundamentally not possible for them. The best you will ever get out of them is a sort of mutual acknowledgement that killing you would be more trouble than it's worth or doesn't align with their goals at this particular time. And ultimately, they're predators that prey on humans. They will do things like cry for mommy or act friendly because humans drop their guard for that. They don't even understand why it works, just that it does.
There are multiple plot arcs devoted to explicitly explaining all this, and the demons repeatedly prove the truth of it with their actions. The fact that OP was able to watch Frieren and walk away with the above take is a testament to how utterly leftism eats its adherents ability to consider other worldviews. (Or, alternately, proof of how utterly unable to consider other views one must be to become a hardcore leftist. One of the two).
In short, I'm 100% sure this guy talks about the importance of media literacy.
Their brains are fried.
I thought it was because vegetarians and vegans were bitching about not being able to eat the fries.
Shouldn’t (the circumstances around) a meat grinder discriminate more? Anyone in a constant, multigenerational, existential war like the Imperium is naturally compelled to start thinking about their reproductive bottlenecks.
What is “TBDesu”? Contextually, I sort of interpret this as “to be honest,” and I sort of understand what “desu” is as a piece of Japanese grammar, but I don’t really get how the two fit together.
Huh, I would have made the opposite prediction, since the appeal of Indians as I understand it was cheap quantity instead of quality. What I would have expected was that AI took over all the "cheap quantity" roles, thus directly competing with Indians. I suppose that was too optimistic.
I don’t know why that would be true. Nintendo has taken strong legal actions against multiple other, similar projects. Infamously, there’s that one guy that now owes them ten million, and regardless of your stance on piracy/emulation, I think pretty much everyone agrees that was ridiculously harsh.
Why would they offer this guy money instead of coming down hard on him too? Is Brazil that totally lawless about IP or something?