You’ve taken it?

But of course - we’re looking for the scariest.

No, you can’t, and don’t try and gaslight me about it.

You’re either being serious or you’re not. You can’t change your intent based on the response.

And FYI, critical thinking is exactly what enables me to see through this, taking me from “maybe this guy’s just clueless” to “nah just a troll”.

So… was it a serious statement intended to promote discussion, or just a joke?

You can’t play both teams.

…wat

Yes, I feel entitled to content people provide for free consumption. Because they would like it to be freely consumed. I have been on both ends of this (creator and consumer) and I 100% agree. If I release something for free, I don’t want some corporation inserting themselves between me and my consumers, to make money from content i released for free. And moreover, to then use my content as a method of collecting demographic information to sell and make further money… why is it “entitled” to be against this?

What about all the vital information on there? Education, news, etc?

I have adblock on my phone ;)

No! Really! It’s not mine!

Drinking just isn’t my sort of thing

You’re making a stretch here. Language is not a representation - it is the thing being communicated. If you really want to get down to it, there’s some debate as to whether we communicate the exact same thing - qualia being what it is - but there is nothing shared beneath language for it to be a representation of (partly because of qualia, in fact).

This “different representation” is not an actual layer of meaning - it is just the mere act of recognising the language.

Firstly, written language can be represented in binary without any loss of information.

It’s still not language, though. It’s just binary.

Secondly, audio of spoken language can be represented in binary with so little loss it’s indistinguishable to humans.

Still not language.

written and spoken language are also just representations.

Of what? What does this need to be translated to for humans to understand it?

01001000 01110101 01101101 01100001 01101110 01110011 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101011 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110100 01110011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00111010 00100000 01101100 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 01110011 00101100 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01100100 01110011 00101100 00100000 01110011 01110000 01100101 01100101 01100011 01101000 00101110 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01110101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01110011 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101011 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01110010 01100101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01110011 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100001 01100111 01100101 00111010 00100000 01101010 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 00110000 01110011 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 00110001 01110011 00101110

Humans work with language itself: letters, words, speech. Computers work with binary representations of language: just 0s and 1s.

Is English not your first language? This isn’t unclear at all.

This is gobbledygook. They don’t know which processes they fire and when, but they know exactly which processes they have. None of them are processes to actually interpret language - only processes to reproduce representations of language. And even if they could coherently interpret language, that still is a long way off from consciousness.

Generative AI is still using the same software and hardware as Microsoft Word. Don’t mistake fantasy for reality.

That is a hypothetical about outside observation, with no look inside. Programmers and engineers do get to see inside, and they know exactly how a computer works.

There is absolutely no opportunity for a processor to learn a single thing from any of the data it shuffles. It only ever sees its binary representation - it could “read” Hamlet 1,000,000,000,000 times and not “know” who wrote it, since it never at any point saw the words.

Easy - it’s just a Chinese Room.

Lmao

Suburbs and diffuse urban centers connected by highways are a consequence of cars, not the other way around. The US could have instead opted for public transport and densely packed services so a full shopping trip doesn’t take you all the way around the state. Here in the UK I can just walk into town and all the things you need are an easy walk from each other,

Rhetorical question haha, I know it’s bullshit. Popups take effort to create, you can’t just accidentally add them.