Or I could just use the dash - way easier.

And it doesn’t make me look like a robot.

I don’t get it. Why do you think this is heavily downvoted?

What the hell am I looking at? What the fuck is going on with those diagonal arrows??

They aren’t necessarily trying to make us support Israel, they just don’t want us to support Palestinian resistance. They like the status quo of people condemning Hamas.

My keyboard does not have an em dash and I have never seen one that does.

Still sus. 🤔

Humans just use dashes - they get the point across and don’t require esoteric button presses.

He doesn’t kill political opponents just to watch them bleed? My point is that he does things for reasons.

The fact that Westoids can only imagine Russians as subhuman violent idiots is fascinating.

He’s not a demon that craves blood for no reason. There’s geostrategic goals at stake.

What is the reason you think philosophy of the mind exists as a field of study?

In part, so we don’t assign intelligence to mindless, unaware, unthinking things like slime mold - it’s so we keep our definitions clear and useful, so we can communicate about and understand what intelligence even is.

What you’re doing actually creates an unclear and useless definition that makes communication harder and spreads misunderstanding. Your definition of intelligence, which is what the AI companies use, has made people more confused than ever about “intelligence” and only serves the interests of the companies for generating hype and attracting investor cash.

Let me rephrase. If your definition of intelligence includes slime mold then the term is not very useful.

There’s a reason philosophy of the mind exists as a field of study. If we just assign intelligence to anything that can solve problems, which is what you seem to be doing, we are forced to assign intelligence to things which clearly don’t have minds and aren’t aware and can’t think. That’s a problem.

If your definition of intelligence doesn’t include awareness it’s not very useful.

My understanding is that the reason LLMs struggle with solving math and logic problems is that those have certain answers, not probabilistic ones. That seems pretty fundamentally different from humans! In fact, we have a tendency to assign too much certainty to things which are actually probabilistic, which leads to its own reasoning errors. But we can also correctly identify actual truth, prove it through induction and deduction, and then hold onto that truth forever and use it to learn even more things.

We certainly do probabilistic reasoning, but we also do axiomatic reasoning i.e. more than probability engines.

Slime mold can solve mazes.

So why is a real “thinking” AI likely impossible? Because it’s bodiless. It has no senses, no flesh, no nerves, no pain, no pleasure. It doesn’t hunger, desire or fear. And because there is no cognition — not a shred — there’s a fundamental gap between the data it consumes (data born out of human feelings and experience) and what it can do with them.

What? No.

Chatbots can’t think because they literally aren’t designed to think. If you somehow gave a chatbot a body it would be just as mindless because it’s just a probability engine.

Why do people even like daylight? It just gives you wrinkles and cancer, that shit sucks.

Right, that’s the point of the “taxpayer” dog whistle. It trains people to think that poor people don’t pay taxes, and implies they’re lesser members of society because of it.

They certainly pay sales taxes, possibly property taxes too, they probably have to pay fines because the cops love to prey on the poor, and there’s also fees to use government services. That’s all taxes.

But there’s this concentrated attempt to denigrate people with lower income as useless eaters that don’t contribute to society, and so they don’t think any of that counts.

They don’t believe anyone under a certain income pays taxes. “Taxpayer” just means “upper income tax bracket” in their mind.

It was all fun and games until he said Israel doesn’t know that the fuck it’s doing.

They don’t report Russia’s claims this way. They don’t report Iran’s claims this way.

And people can see it, which is why they don’t trust the media anymore.