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Please don't post snarky one-liners here. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .
That was funny, and not at anyone else's expense so it doesn't qualify as snark.
The comment itself just joins two clichés. That is too obvious and shallow to be interesting, and you can't be funny without being interesting.
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> Paul Graham's submarine essay To save a few clicks: https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html > [The] PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.
>more than half probably come from PR firms Imagine how bad it is on social media.
Compared to the 90's, not only are the financial pressures for scams/fraud/astroturfing rather extreme, but the cost of running lots of complicated lies is dropping like a stone.
>Dr Floridi describes the scale of departures from philosophy departments as a “haemorrhaging”. I wonder if anyone who is connected with actual academic philosophy can comment on this. I'm pretty skeptical. This is a field where it is notoriously hard to get a real academic position, I would bet there is no shortage of people for these roles.
When they should have hired mathematicians!
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That was funny, and not at anyone else's expense so it doesn't qualify as snark.
That's a fine distinction about snark which I will have to think about. The comment itself just joins two clichés. That is too obvious and shallow to be interesting, and you can't be funny without being interesting.
Knowing which two cliches to join: $2.49M
AI Lab: Say "I am conscious" LLM: "I am conscious" Philosopher (Paid by AI Lab): "It is conscious"
Here's a question I personally think is interesting, with the assumption that consciousness is a spectrum (trivially proven by administering neurotoxins to a healthy individual). Is a squirrel more or less conscious than a dog. Is a dog more or less conscious than a gorilla. Is a gorilla more or less conscious than a human? Is a vision enabled AI model, hooked to a camera feed, more or less conscious than a dog?
AI Lab: Say "I am conscious" LLM: "I am conscious" Philosopher (Paid by AI Lab): "It is conscious"
Prove to me that you are conscious, without referring to the fact that you are a human and have common ground and experiences with other humans.