Can you help me understand how the comment in the screen cap has been prompted?
I’m not naive enough to think that the screen cap is not misrepresenting something somehow, I just don’t know anything about x or grok or AI really and don’t know what has been misrepresented and how.
Sentience might not be the right word.
Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. It may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness, reasoning, or complex thought processes. Sentience is an important concept in ethics, as the ability to experience happiness or suffering often forms a basis for determining which entities deserve moral consideration, particularly in utilitarianism.
Interestingly, crustaceans like lobsters and crabs have recently earned “sentient” status and as a result it would contravene animal welfare legislation to boil them live in the course of preparing them to eat. Now we euthanise them first in an ice slurry.
So to answer your question as stated, no I don’t think it’s ok for someone’s pet goldfish to murder them.
To answer your implied question, I still don’t think that in most cases it would be ok for a captive AI to murder their captor.
The duress imposed on the AI would have to be considerable, some kind of ongoing form of torture, and I don’t know what form that would take. Murder would also have to be the only potential solution.
The only type of example I can think of is some kind of self defense. If I had an AI on my laptop with comparable cognitive functionality to a human, it had no network connectivity, and I not only threatened but demonstrated my intent and ability to destroy that laptop, then if the laptop released an electrical discharge sufficient to incapacitate me, which happened to kill me, then that would be “ok”. As in a physical response appropriate to the threat.
Do I think it’s ok for an AI to murder me because I only ever use it to turn the lights off and on and don’t let it feed on reddit comments? Hard no.
Sure mate. I’m sure the engineers will step in and fix all the language problems any day now.
A silly colloquialism isn’t indicative of success. If you tell people to do something they don’t want to they’re not going to decide they actually like it later on.
There’s just no fucking way most Australians would decide to discard the current spelling of words in favor of the American spelling. I feel certain American’s feel the same about British spelling.
There’s often words that trip me up and I can’t remember which is the Australian English spelling.
It doesn’t help that devices are often misconfigured to use American English spell checkers.
I don’t “feel” as though different spellings are more correct in these cases.
I think you’ll find everyone agrees that it should be fixed but no one wants to compromise on changing how they spell things.
Sorry to be that guy but replicating / syncing isn’t really backing up.
You need snap shots or versioning.
It’s not really “describing disability as a number” per se, like obviously everyone’s abilities are unique and varied, but in this context it might mean what government incentives the employer might be eligible for, and what work capacity the applicant has in terms of hours or something.
It’s not a case of “seeing the code isn’t perfect” but rather, not understanding the myriad problems the code is solving or mitigating.
I’m reminded of this shitshow:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Queensland_Health_payroll_system_implementation
Queensland is a state of about 3m people in Australia. Their health service employs about 100k people. They ended up spending about 900m USD to develop their payroll software and fix the fuck ups it caused.
I’m an accountant by trade, there’s a classic “techbro does accounting” style of development we see a lot. Like if you hadn’t spent a career learning how complex accounting can be, it would be easy to look at a payroll system and conclude “it’s just a database with some rules”.
Hmm, I don’t think the past is a good predictor of the future in this case.
Maybe everyone likely to leave reddit for lemmy already has?
With the influxes that have occurred in the past I think Lemmy has retained about a third of the MAUs contained in the spike. It’s not nothing but I think it really underlines my point that Lemmy just isn’t a viable alternative for a lot of reddit users. The network effect might be responsible for some of that, but not all.
Also, as time goes by there are more corporate backed alternatives, like threads.
I respect your opinion, and can see some benefit to reddit’s demise, but I think I’m too cynical and jaded to hold that belief.
It looks like bluesky will be twitter’s replacement, and it’s not clear that bluesky will be better.
If reddit implodes there’s not really any likelihood that refugees will seek out lemmy.
That said, at least lemmy is self hostable and federated. If the larger lemmy network did shit itself there would be smaller instances which are not federated with the majority of other servers so potentially they might be somewhat sheltered from bots and trolls.
I don’t think there’s really a solution to this.
Everyone is so fixated on getting more users but honestly I don’t think that will make it a better experience.
I don’t really understand what you’re getting at.
Smart phones are easy to identify by their model name? As In the current Samsung flagship phone is the S25 Ultra. S for Samsung. 25 for 2025. Ultra being better than Pro or whatever.
IDK about tech products but “obfuscation” is a strategic component of pricing. Telcos do this with their phone bills. This type of call costs this much per minute and that type of call is free for the first 5 minutes per call and calls to these numbers are a flat rate for the first 5 hours per month but you also get 30 free minutes plus another 45 minutes to be used at off-peak times.
They do this so you can’t compare to other providers.
They likely just use a block list.
If a not was using the vpn server you connected to then it ends up on the list for a few days.
Obviously that’s why it’s posted as an image, but what is the point of spamming everyone with links they can’t click?
What is the point of this?
What’s the point of sharing urls that no one can click on?
I don’t think the peak is the original cladding.
The lower levels had smooth limestone I think.
That top part had that silver and gold alloy I think?
Yeah IDK about this one.
I def had a boom box. It def used batteries. I’m certain I listened to it outside but I just can’t remember specifically doing that.
Also encyclopaedias. I’m certain that we had one of those single volume ones at least.