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Mostly complaining about politics and structural biology. At the end of everything, hold on to anything.

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Allow me to gently suggest that if one is doing things online that can incur felony charges, one should, in fact, read the FAQs and privacy policies of a service one voluntarily provides personally identifying information to.

07.03.2026 23:53 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

this was the IRA, which every senate democrat voted for and every senate republican voted against

07.03.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 1393 πŸ” 231 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 30

This is true. If you didn’t vote for Harris in the *general* election you share a tiny bit of the blame for Trump and β€œshe should have run a better campaign” may be true but we all know who Trump was and if you couldn’t take even the tiniest marginally impactful step to stop it that is your fault

07.03.2026 23:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think this post like many others are making the mistake of acting like the people who are yelling are the candidate or the party and thats not the case, this is voters yelling at voters for voting for something horrible

*we* absolutely can and should blame *us* because it is *our* responsibility

07.03.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

(whispers) the trial in Measure of a Man in ST:TNG was not about whether Data was conscious and him being conscious is not why he wins

07.03.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Still impressive

07.03.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah ok that’s far less impressive and maybe tips things more to the β€œcool for robotics” and away from the β€œbioethics nightmare”

07.03.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Dude sounds like he’s falling asleep while talking about starting another war

07.03.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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06.03.2026 11:30 πŸ‘ 5440 πŸ” 1872 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 90

oh christ I wasn't even thinking about the hassle of resetting the cat for DST

07.03.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 405 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 0

I only smoke single origin fair trade meth. It comes with a short bio of the motorcycle club chapter who made it on the back of the package

07.03.2026 17:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I will say that watching the video is the most uncomfortable I’ve felt with a biology thing in a very long time

07.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would read this and watch this video with an enormous amount of skepticism until someone else reproduces it, but it’s plausible and I hope we proceed more cautiously than we probably will

07.03.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This goes even deeper than conscious though. What is reaction to negative or painful stimuli?

07.03.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And you can’t just ask the LLM because it will either say it isn’t conscious because it’s been told not to do that or it will say it is conscious because all the data in its model as created by humans

07.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I know I’m conscious (whatever that fundamentally means) because I have access to experience of my inner thoughts and feelings, which I can relate to other people but which they cannot directly share. I know that you are conscious because you are very similar to me. We can’t do that with a machine

07.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We’ve been handed a really interesting philosophical question on a platter and it’s a bummer how much of trh reaction to it amounts to sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming

07.03.2026 16:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How do you know if an octopus is conscious?

07.03.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How would you know if a machine is conscious? β€œA machine cannot be conscious” isn’t a reasonable answer to that question

07.03.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s possible we actually made a philosophical zombie and the whole point of that thought experiment is you can’t really tell if you have one

07.03.2026 16:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I lean very strongly towards β€œLLMs are not conscious” but I think they really demonstrate how we don’t understand the consciousness other than our own and the replies to this post seem to focus on a β€œgod of the gaps” philosophy in which anything a machine can do is not a sign of consciousness

07.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Notably none of the people alive for the chop chop part lived to see the liberal democracy part

07.03.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe I should just embrace the DC spirit and do it on the street, a few years ago a guy down the street from me rolled an engine lift down the sidewalk to pull his engine

07.03.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If I had a garage I would try to do an electric conversion on a Volvo 240, alas

07.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot *stand* it’a a wonderful life

07.03.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really miss my 2001 outback wagon :(

Sure it got 17 mpg, had the world’s most annoying clutch and leaked oil from every seam but

07.03.2026 13:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

07.03.2026 02:43 πŸ‘ 3692 πŸ” 1237 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 23
An old screenshot talking about Google on top. It says "Google is a pure search engine β€” no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit. Below is a screenshot from The Phantom Menace, where Anakin Skywalker is walking next to a building and behind him you see the shadow of Darth Vader.

An old screenshot talking about Google on top. It says "Google is a pure search engine β€” no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit. Below is a screenshot from The Phantom Menace, where Anakin Skywalker is walking next to a building and behind him you see the shadow of Darth Vader.

07.03.2026 07:14 πŸ‘ 617 πŸ” 176 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 7

Ok but I woke up Saturday morning and was apparently sacrificing things as an American but nobody has told me why I should be doing it

07.03.2026 00:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

35% of adulthood is figuring out which things have a filter that it would probably be a good idea to clean or change every now and then

17.02.2024 20:11 πŸ‘ 231 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 9