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@bekieark

I read the recent book *Irriducibile* by Federico Faggin¹ and in the light of the Operational Probabilistic Theory he mentioned, I am extremely skeptical that there will ever be an artificial consciousness. For sure ML, mentioned by OP, has nothing to do with this. He was talking about things like ChatGPT so theoretical AI is off-topic here.

(1: the inventor of microprocessors and touchscreen and who foresaw the use of neural networks well in advance and tried to implement them with the analog processors)

@humanrightswatch

Liberated by the Soviet Union army: it is important to remember this because the peoples belonging to the USSR like the Russians suffered millions of deaths to defeat Nazism while the US and UK very few in comparison.

Because of Hollywood cinema, in mass culture the US is considered the architects of the defeat of Nazism when compared to the USSR they had a marginal role.

Furthermore, the US destroyed German cities with bombings not for military reasons but for terrorism. The USSR didn't.

@bekieark @aral

Hey, please don't make it sounds like the difference between Machine Learning and consciousness is just a matter of size. It's not like that at all. ML is just a simulation, it has nothing to do with consciousness.

What you are saying is that the resolution and in general the quality of screens will increase so much that they will become real space-time portals and we will be able to jump into them.

Also, discussing the ethics of hypothetically conscious future AI in a world where it is normal to enslave and torture non-human animals is **madness**.

@j_bertolotti

It is interesting that for cases other than L² the continuous symmetry is lost and the orientation of the figure depends on the coordinate system (I guess).

@czottmann

Same for me and in my experience and technically speaking EU is a regime.

About this:

> And I agree with the EU as a concept, an ideal.

The EU is not an ideal though, the ideal is cooperation between European countries, I guess.

You have rightly criticized capitalism. But if you are really interested in changing things, you realize that to implement welfare state policies you need to change the monetary policy of the ECB.

This is not technically possible with the European elections. It must be done with national governments and they must all agree. Countries like Germany that profit from the current situation at the expense of other countries must also agree.

What I'm telling you is that the EU is technically defending capitalism. And the situation can be unblocked only in two ways: with the unanimity of the nations or by remaking the EU from scratch.

The question I am asking you is not ideological, it is technical. My point is that the EU is fostering competition between nations, allowing the stronger to exploit the weaker and preventing nations from pursuing the welfare state with policies such as #JobGuarantee, #FreeHealthcare and #FreeEducation. The EU is exactly the opposite of the ideal of cooperation between nations that you profess.

Please don't respond with inconsistent rhetoric. Read about what I have mentioned and think about it.

@czottmann

Maybe you didn't take part in the real protests.

I witnessed the police smash the head of an elderly, nearly blind retired professor during a peaceful demonstration against the uprooting of ancient olive trees for the TAP pipeline in southern Italy, and this is just one example.

I rephrase the question: how do you know you're not in a much worse regime than you think?

@czottmann

It's not whataboutism. I'm asking you how you know you are not the one in a regime.

You carry an EU flag which has the only parliament in the world without legislative power.

Do you know that EU rules, including for example the statute of the ECB and therefore its monetary policy, cannot be changed by the European elections?

Do you know that these rules can only be changed with the unanimity of national governments and therefore a single state (for example Germany) will never allow the rules that are favoring it to be changed? At most people read a few information pages on the EU website, but those have no legal value.

This is all written in the Maastricht and Lisbon treaties which are incredibly long and convoluted to discourage you from reading them and in fact nobody reads them.

Have you read them?

Speaking of the international community, did you realize that it's just the US, UK, EU and little else, who make up about a third of the world's population while Russia is allied with China, India, Brazil, South Africa and other countries like Iran want to join the BRICS?

@czottmann

How do you know you are not the one in a regime that tries to keep you in a bubble of propaganda?

Also, are you saying that your fellow citizens are dumber than you while Russia allows its citizens to compare sources and judge for themselves?

And what about Julian Assange? Doesn't that ring a bell?

@czottmann

Western media are visible from the "regime" but RT, Sputnik and others are banned by EU. Think about it.

@ceoln @rastinza @aspuru @KellyKellyKelly@masto.ai

What happens is that sentences that are factually wrong are often surrounded by a drop in accuracy and style or even grammatical errors. It is as if it were under strain.

Incidentally the screenshot I shared is an example of this: in the last sentence it mistakenly switched from discussing scientific models to PowerPoint templates and that was immediately preceded by a grammatical error.

So my point is that if you know the subject well you can use it fluently and not getting stuck. Better not to expect to learn a topic but only to make it spit out keywords to do appropriate research.

Copywriters/journalists who use it to write more articles faster are doing a very dangerous thing.

@ceoln @rastinza @aspuru @KellyKellyKelly@masto.ai

Of course, but after a while you are able to tell if ChatGPT is hallucinating so in the end you learn to spot mistakes and move on quickly.

@rastinza @aspuru @KellyKellyKelly@masto.ai

#ChatGPT is even more useful when asking stuff that you know very well and that can't fool you. By knowing it you can quickly read a lot of answers and most of the time there are relevant details you never heard of or connections you didn't make.

I'm currently experimenting with a #GPT3 plugin for #Logseq that can be used to generate more content alongside my notes to keep it in context and eventually reworked manually; here there is an example (in Italian) with machine generated sentences highlighted:

@juddlegum

The growing number of detransitioners and their tragic stories should cast serious doubts on the wisdom of exposing children to issues that may be premature and destabilizing for them.

Instead this is becoming polarized and the discussion is nipped in the bud by accusations of bigotry.