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Found it after some searching:

https://archive.ph/vHGue

But now, as an evolutionary biologist, I say the following. If these creatures are not conscious, then what the hell is consciousness for?

He's missing the point. Intelligent, conscious beings devised speech and came up with all human utterances. An LLM just copies and pastes bits of language that humans have already uttered. What the two entities do is not the same at all.

According to this theory, pain needs to be consciously felt in order to be sufficiently painful to resist overruling.

Again, no. If Dawkins had ever written an optimiser, he'd know that's not true. As you will know (but bystanders may not), you write a cost function (which says how bad a solution is) and a bit of code to find some configuration with a suitably low cost. If there's some configuration that you want to forbid absolutely, you give it such a high cost that the optimiser will never choose it. I've done this, and it works. There's no need to posit consciousness in a piece of software.

This article is sloppy in too many places for me to take it seriously. I agree with you: he has AI psychosis.

Primer litigio contra un centro de datos en España ✊🔥 Ecologistas en Acción Aragón, Tu Nube Seca Mi Río, No Es Sequía es Saqueo y otras agrupaciones territoriales luchan contra «un modelo de expansión descontrolada», que está «secuestrando el agua, la energía y el futuro». Para financiar esta lucha jurídica se apoyan en un crowdfunding que ya casi logra completar el objetivo

¡Ayudemos participando y compartiendo! 🔥
https://www.migranodearena.org/reto/frena-a-amazon-defiende-aragon-contencioso-historico-contra-los-megacentros-de-datos/dona

#Spain #Aragon #DataCenters #Amazon #AI #IA #cloud

This #PoliticalCartoon by Bill Bramhall shows some of Trump's goons overreacting to James Comey exercising his right to #FreeSpeech. The court case brought against Comey is a waste of time and money.

Steve Rattner: "Trump's net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. The Trump Administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history."
#corruption #Trump #crypto #politics

M€ta descargó ilegalmente más de 80 terabytes de libros de LibGen, Anna's Archive y Z-library para entrenar sus modelos de IA.

Aaron Swartz descargó 70 GB de artículos de JSTOR (el 0,0875 % de lo que hizo M€ta) en 2010. Y tuvo que enfrentar una multa de un millón de dólares y 35 años de prisión. Se suicidó en 2013.

Un paso adelante en la lucha, no importa si es la sindical, la política, la feminista, la ecologista, es no cagarse en los que luchan de manera distinta a ti, dejar de menospreciar, de hacer de menos. Puede que tu manera no sea la mejor, piénsalo antes de abrir la boca.

A friendly reminder that the people who:
•banned Black people from reparations, schools, military, GI bill, & FHA loans
•who lynched & are now locking Latinos into putrid concentration camps
•who locked Japanese people into camps & banned all Asian immigration
•who broke every single treaty with Native Americans while committing genocide
•And who are now gutting laws that helped counter that harm & passing laws to ban teaching that history...

They want you to stop making everything about race.😐

Resultados de las elecciones sindicales en Ubisoft Mobile, con subidas salariales insuficientes y políticas de teletrabajo injustas.

Just got home from Spanish class and all 7 people in the class had a story about an older relative (mom, dad, grandad, uncle, aunt) who spends hours a day mindlessly scrolling social media and is completely unable to engage with the rest of the family during meals.

Tell me again why we're trying to ban kids/teens from social media and not just ban algorithmic social media entirely?

Last Friday, without any notice, a contractor working for DHS cut a roughly 60-foot swath across the middle of the intaglio, doing irreparable damage to the 1,000-year-old artifact. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/30/arizona-archeological-site-bulldozed-border-wall/

Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.

Scientists are famous oversharers.

#viernesdememes #meme #Humor

Dictator Erdoğan appointed İstanbul Governor's Office announced detention of 575 people to repress May Day/International Workers' Day so far today.

In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Elon Musk evoked a “Terminator” scenario. He said nothing about the people AI is already killing. https://theintercept.com/2026/05/01/elon-musk-openai-lawsuit-trial