The pope’s AI encyclical was good reading and reminds us to center human dignity, compassion, etc. Lots of ethics to explore with regard to AI and related cultural phenomena.

Yeah, sometimes the chemicals are signals and they are telling you things. Sometimes they are noise. Either way they are hard to filter.

I think it is also about the terms of the debate and definitions of self. For me the absurdity is to propose invisible essences that transcend physical reality. My body is my self and I kind of own or rent the material that makes me work. The processes are physical as well, but they are mine too. I freely make decisions all the time, all by myself. There is no other self worth talking about.

Seriously. Why are chemicals absurd? Answer: They are not absurd. They are arranged and tuned to your relations with your surroundings. They are sensory organs. Ignoring your senses is a choice I guess, especially when they are badly calibrated or misinformed by fake inputs (social media, rage bait, w/e)

Came here to say it. Glad to find it said. Everyone’s rights are threatened by this.

Close the lid, buddy. You gave your only good ideas to a stranger and they made you obsolete.

I was listening to… Boston, Longtime / Foreplay. Quite the hard rock canon I suppose. Not my era or genre, but a great song. Going down the rabbit hole with this old band.

Thanks! I suspected as much, but lack adequate expertise to comment.

That is cheap enough to be an expendable decoy, I expect.

They may want to sell it to their friends to train a medical AI model.

They could add tremendous focal points for debate / discussion, but I would rather have them own only their topics than own the whole social graph. I would not trust any org to own the social graph, so yes Fedi. I would really like govs to secure my digital rights via zero knowledge proofs of things like citizenship, age, etc… Give me a way to reveal only what a particular service needs to know.

I can see having a single node in the whole machine, but one per mix makes me think this photo is doctored. Then again an esp32 is pretty damn cheap.

They totally do, at least in the USA they do. Well documented corporate practice.

edit: FALSE! Was this ever true? I was indeed confident. No longer, for now… Thanks for bringing all the receipts, so to speak.

This one helped me too, especially on the special user/group mappings for lsio containers. That’s a trick.