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Do you use AI tools at all? I am slightly astonished someone makes these sorts of comments in 2025. AI has been remarkably useful for many many things across many industries; I’m c…

And how would you define intelligence then?

Black mirror episode about exactly this

Do you enjoy … any fiction? Sheesh

Erewhon is probably THEE most expensive place lol

So how can you claim what an LLM is doing if we cannot define it regardless?

What is reasoning? What is understanding? Do humans do either? How do you know?

And how is what humans do any different ? What does it mean to understand ? Are we pattern matching as well?

So then what is AGI?

How much longer can I get paid $150k to write code ?

Choice is different than free will. We have will, but it is not free. We will make choices.

What will your next thought be? Think of a movie — why did that movie arise in your mind? It’s an illusion but that doesn’t negate we must operate as though our will is free!

Majority of kids and teens do not care about that, as much as we’d assume. They are aware, but their day to day is what is important to them. Friends, relationships, drama — they a…

Gary Marcus is unquestionably one of the most negative , and consistently wrong voices in the AI community. I do not understand why he is continued to be given credence or ears to …

Do you often discount studies and science when it comes to ideas that don’t align with your natural instinct? Is addiction a disease or a moral failure? Is depression a chemical im…

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There was an article posted here yesterday about the decline of children having counsins. Aka, more and more people are not having children. This spawned several threads about the …

OK, it sounds like your experience was selfish simply because later ON you had children, and the time you spent alone was time you could've had with your eventual children. But wha…

What of the people that have children but those children do not contribute in any meaningful way to society? Is the implication here that every child born must somehow be a net-pos…

"I'm not giving anyone else a chance" -- there is no "anyone else". There is nothing being robbed, as there is no other party that literally exists in the universe.

There are studies that show quote plainly that people with kids are unholier than those without. The difference is much later on life when the happiness “winner” switches to the gr…

How is it selfish to not have kids? Selfishness implies another party; if the kid doesn’t even exist, what is selfish?

Which version do you use? People often say things like your comment and 99.9% of the time, it’s poor prompting or a lower GPT version. GPT-4 is remarkably helpful for many coding t…

Do you really think current AI progress is nothing more than an NFT repeat?