With all due respect, you simply do not know what you are talking about. Here is some info on this topic if you are all interested in learning more

I’m eager to hear how this is going to effect the petition. Were any of the signatures illegitimate? Is there any way to tell for sure? Hopefully the answers to these questions will be coming weeks/months

This is a very ignorant comment. Consciousness is legitimately the greatest unsolved problem in modern science and philosophy.

I usually disagree with you about everything but I think you have a valid point here. This was an issue I studied very closely when I was in university, and you’re right, no one has the slightest clue how consciousness works. Saying “oh ChatGTP is just a statistical machine so it can’t be conscious” is like saying “oh the human brain is just a bunch of neural firings so it can’t produce consciousness”. In both cases, consciousness is not an obvious end result, but here we are.

That said, personally I don’t think ChatGTP is conscious, but it’s wrong for people to act like it being a philosophical zombie is obvious; the possibility of it being conscious is actually compatible with most nonreligious people’s belief systems already. Unfortunately the anti-AI hate on Lemmy won’t allow people to see the nuance on this discussion and they will interperet this as me somehow defending AI slop, which I am in no way trying to do.

Yeah seriously that article paints a really dark picture

This is very cool, I hope it catches on in other cities

alright did i fall for a prank here or something

Looks like the link you provided takes you to a removed entry

Thanks for the link, looks interesting

Why not both?

This is true. Ontario made online sports gambling legal and now the rest of Canada is inundated with online gambling ads whenever there’s a hockey game, and it’s causing an in increase in the number of people who say they have a gambling problem. In principle though it should be possible to ban the ads while keeping the service legal still

Where is lemmy.zip hosted?

get trolled to the point where they quit let me altogether it’s

This is why its a good idea for the bigger instances to defederate from hexbar

I know Elon Musk has a lot of kids. Are there any other billionaires with a lot of kids?

It’s also legitimately impossible to fully regulate this (besides shutting them down altogether, for which I’m totally on board)

This might just push it to the black market. It’s been pretty hard to shut down online gambling for reasons like this. Of course making illegal will dissuade some users but it won’t stamp it out entirely

Alberta is not going to be able to separate even if they got the votes and all that stuff.

If they get the votes but still aren’t able to separate, it will still be pretty destabilizing because it will just amplify Alberta’s persecution complex

dbzer0 mentions problems with anti ai trolls

Is dbzer0 pro AI?

18 seems like a crazy high age for this

This is an interesting idea. It would also help give the internet a more local focus, which I think is something missing in today’s internet. It’s part of why local news is struggling so much right now

On the flipside Meshtastic (which is 915 mhz US band and 400 in Euro I believe) has a tiny antenna, way less range,however you have less interference from other stations or space weather.

Meshtastic seems to only support text messaging. Is that due to a limitation on the frequency it uses?