Robots with Biological Brains: Issues and Consequences

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Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

I think about this tweet every day

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"We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt." - Joseph Cooper, Interstellar

Neil Harbisson: I listen to color

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For a communist, I think a serious investigation of how to solve the calculation problem will naturally lead to cybernetic communism, and a serious investigation of how to solve the knowledge problem will naturally lead to hivemind communism.

I just don't think humans will ever be conscious tbh. A wet pile of neurons generating electricity and chemicals can't be conscious. "Natural Intelligence" is a scam: it can't generate new knowledge, only rearrange what exists. If you put a neuron in a room and make it answer questions in Chinese...

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No, you're not understanding: I *want* inconvenient tits. I want tits that get in the way of absolutely everything. Every time I accidentally smack my arms on them or feel them jiggle while running is a gender-affirming experience for me. I want tits that *constantly* remind me of their existence.

Arguably Viktor Glushkov was the first hivemind communist, since he not only advocated planning via Big Computer internet but also using brain-computer interfaces to link people to Big Computer or even upload minds to it:

Big Computer communism but the computer is just the collective intelligence of the hivemind.

Directly linking minds together seems like a really interesting idea to me because it seems to get rid of pretty much all the limitations of a planned economy imo. Like if we could have decentralized information flow and not be limited by language then communism could really work.

Then re-engineer the entire cosmos until it's essentially one giant AI with infinite compute power. Put the "Big" in "Big Computer."

Disassemble the Earth and turn it into computronium. Then disassemble the Solar System and turn it into a Matrioshka brain. Then send out self-replicating space probes to do the same to every other planetary system.

A spectre has been haunting transhumanism - the spectre of hivemind communism.

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I code like a girl.

Schedule your orchiectomy for New Year's Eve so that your balls can drop at the same time as the Times Square one.

Technically, every project is open source if you're good enough at assembly code 😎

Problem: Under capitalism, some workers' livelihoods depend on profiting from their creative output. Correct response: Therefore, we need to ensure people don't need to work to get their basic needs met. Incorrect response: Therefore, we need to pressure the state to enforce a dystopian IP regime.

Back in my day, "No gods, no masters" actually meant something.

Who had "Superconducting computers might make a comeback" on their AI bingo card?

"Communism will only be achieved through the absolute triumph of enlightenment. It will be its ineluctable consequence, its social and political expression." ~ Louis-Auguste Blanqui https://blanqui.kingston.ac.uk/texts/notes-on-positivism-1869/

"God is the means of government, a protector of the privileged against the multitude. The proletariat . . . should distrust any emblem which does not bear in bold letters the motto: Atheism and materialism." ~ Louis-Auguste Blanqui

Switching to a different keyboard layout should be called a Dvorce.

Transition update: I'm officially starting both electrolysis and voice training soon.

"Get your weird spirit shit out of my queerness" 👏👏✊

The results from one of last year's hunts for exomoons are in.

An interesting new idea for AI hardware based on probabilistic circuits that use Gibbs sampling, which could make AI a lot more energy efficient.

The 25th anniversary of the ISS operationally in orbit reminded me the ESA once challenged an Assassin's Creed and Far Cry dev to get DOOM running on a satellite

The Linear No Threshold model used by nuclear regulators and standards is demonstrably false and harmful and needs to be replaced.

Would 3-D printers being able to fully print 3-D printers also have a kind of technological singularity effect, the same way AI being able to produce improved AI would?

Oh, so when a man sleeps with a lot of women he's a "player" but when I do it I'm a "lesbian?"

Remember: it's edgy to disagree with the internet.

I'm listening...

Zohran Mamdani just said he'd support new nuclear plants in New York at tonight's debate. Mamdani: “I think it’s something worth exploring.” Cuomo: “Is that a yes?” Mamdani: “Yeah.”

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a technological singularity is a good guy with a technological singularity.

The only real god is my domme.

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"Artificial neural networks can't produce consciousness because they're just a bunch of matrix multiplications and linear algebra" So is quantum mechanics comrade but that didn't stop quantum mechanics from producing the world we see around us including your consciousness.