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Especially if/when you’re trans, black, jewish, gay, liberal, and all of the great many other groups so often culturally dehumanized.

Wolf pup. 9 inches cranial circumference. Setting on the cuteness dial: 11. (like Nigel Tufnel's amp, the highest setting)

Mate it's pure cauld here ken!?You try havin aw the baw shrinkage that comes wi wearing a kilt, ya mad wee rocket. Bolt!

So which came first, the philosophical model or the machine that proves it?

I think allowing anything offplanet that has as little compassion for humans as a corporation is a big mistake. We need to be able to trust them not to hold the whole planet hostage, and right now I sure don't. Ruthless business practices are so common on Earth, with corporations killing millions for profit, in "well thought out" campaigns of slavery, torture, and corruption. If they get offplanet and are allowed to keep those practices, there's nothing to stop them from gaining the upper hand for all time, nothing except their own altruism.

I have read something similar, but to be frank, I usually find these types of arguments unconvincing. It sounds like a just-so story to me with little actual evidence with retrospective reasoning. Papers that have discussed these shifts mostly focus on market forces, such as a time of increased regional demand (especially from China), huge investments in local leaders in the semiconductor business. In addition there were specific business developments, such as fabless manufacturing, where many companies design chips but outsource production to foundries. Originally, semiconductor business where dominated by firms that do in-house production and design, such as Intel). However, eventually the fabless model increased its market share and the existing foundries happened to be in East Asia, who happened to have their market share increased. As a strong interconnection with this foundries, fabless industries and the electronics manufacturer is extremely beneficial (e.g. in terms of response time), there was a strong incentive to also create local R&D centers, further strengthening the move to the East. So there are many factors that could explain chip manufacturing which I find more convincing than a somewhat handwavy cultural explanation.

One problem with threads like this (aside from being tedious) is that eventually people who don't really care who said what to whom are drawn into taking sides. And that sucks oxygen away from the topical threads that are the real life of SFN. Any chance y'all could just stop?

You’ve summed up the way Trump voters feel about Biden quite accurately.

Also curious re the polling. It is possible some people take the Don't Know off ramp. While I personally have not the faintest clue as to how anyone could not know, given the choice, I recognize that some personalities have a reticence about committing in such surveys. For me, the choice would be something on the order of Would you prefer a long sensual embrace and kiss from Margot Robbie or having Ebola vomited into your face by the reanimated corpse of Joseph Stalin?

"It's not rocket science - it's much more difficult" goes one of the inside jokes. The link gives a run-through of the chip making process and issues. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-chip-production-why-hard-to-make-semiconductors/

Just gonna highlight for you how none of these are mine. You can tell bc there’s no X button to undo it Retaliating against someone who did nothing to you strikes me as asymmetric.

It's "worse" than that. Even just one tree pollenating another will produce many different crosses from countless possibilities- in the same way that we are not (usually) the same as our brothers + sisters. Every year, every seed in every apple will be genetically unique. That's (part of) the reason why they usually propagate commercial varieties from cuttings. I understand that some plants will self pollenate, but leave it to the "last minute" They only do it if no other pollen is received. They seem to have evolved to recognise that evolution is a good thing. This makes them "better informed about evolution" than some people I know of.

There have been numerous instances in the US of police summaries being in conflict with subsequently shared video evidence. In short, police will lie to cover their 6. Mandating body cameras has been one push to mitigate that, which would reduce the need for citizens to “audit” If the police are following the rules, they should not have any valid objection to being filmed. They’re supposed to be serving the public. The public has the right to film them in the US; there’s no ethical problem that I can see. Evidence?

Github has lots of artificial neural networks unlicensed/FLOSS Q: "What brain regions do albatrosses have?" Q: "How do birds have so much more intelligence per neural volume versus humans?" Q: "How to base artificial neural networks off us birds to allow to lower resource use versus ones based off of human cortices?" Q: "Goose and albatross process lots per neural volume versus humans, because birds evolved from dinosaurs and so had longer to optimize neural structures versus mammals, howto base artificial neural networks off of goose or albatross neural networks?" Q: "Modern artificial neural networks such as Spinnaker are based off human neural networks because humans are the smartest of mammals, but lots of robots can not house enough RAM and CPUs, so as opposed to neuromorphic artificial neural networks based off on humans, how about based off of goose or albatross?" Versus humans

Right, that's what the cameras are for.

Since you commented regarding some neg rep in another thread and I couldn't answer there, I'll answer it here. Unless none of those "emotive responses" (neg reps) in that thread were yours, I was simply returning the favor on a comment I didn't like. You didn't like something, and I didn't either. ...That's what these things are for, because that's how I've seen them used all along. "No sir I don't like it." -Mister Horse Got lots of those in the artificial consciousness thread when people couldn't give any support to their counter-opinions and "no sir I don't like it" is the only thing they could do (it must have broken the record for most negs in a single thread on this board or something) Think I'll post a screenshot when the red number hits triple digits. I'll note this in my signature for the popcorn enjoyers.

Typically these "auditors" are idiots that just want hits on YouTube.

First I want to say that I couldn't take the hawlings of those AI apocalypse crowd too seriously let I burst a cranial vein (I'll explain the above pic in a moment. It's either going to be Ripley or Babylon 5, but I don't think B5 has a direct quote about what's going on the screen). Here's the copy-pasta reply I do whenever I encounter one of those "posts" on LI: Second, who in the world are these so-called "researchers"??? They "don't know why" it behaved the way it did? Did the article misstate things here? Oh come on! It's not "biases" but the training corpus as a whole! They're staring at that fact and it's right in their faces! It's RIGHT HERE (bolded by me): IT MIGHT AS WELL ALSO OUTPUT "NUKE IT FROM ORBIT, IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE" FROM RIPLEY'S LINE IN ALIENS SINCE THAT'S CERTAINLY PART OF THE FICTIONAL CORPUS STORED ON THE INTERNET TOO /screamholler Are they pretending to just "not know," or these "researchers" have no ****ING IDEA how these things work!? Seriously, that's worse than putting ChatGPT to work on medical cases, since even medical fictional works have more of these technical jargon-laden sequences than, say, generic military scenarios that could be anything from Reddit posts or cross-universe Harry Potter fanfics. Of course, that doesn't make it any better even in those cases: https://inflecthealth.medium.com/im-an-er-doctor-here-s-what-i-found-when-i-asked-chatgpt-to-diagnose-my-patients-7829c375a9da Before I take a big breath, I'm going to question if those "researchers" are researchers at all.