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Care to elaborate?

Edit: never mind, i got it… lol

One option discussed in the article is pitching a tent in the room to avoid being seen. Sounds extreme but honestly might be worth it as these cameras get harder and harder to spot

The way you’re discussing ‘models’ seems to assume two points: (1) that all useful models will be physical models, and (2) that we have models that work in this context. Neither of these assumptions are correct.

For the first point, arguably the most popular model of consciousness we have at the moment is Integrated Information Theory (IIT). IIT is explicitly a panpsychist theory (all matter has some non-zero quantity of consciousness). This lends itself very well to non-physicalist interpretations (where consciousness is a fundamental constituent of the universe, irreducible to matter).

For the second point, all this discussion of models is largely besides the point. Because there is currently no model of conscious experience that works. No theory is widely accepted. And the theories that were once popular (global workspace theory and even IIT) seem to not the supported by evidence (proponents of these theories have tried to modify them to fit the data, but you can only do that so many times before things start to looks sketchy). So whether we use a model or not, it’s not really relevant to this discussion, because we currently have no scientific models of consciousness that work.

But there’s no reason to think it isn’t.

That’s not the case. This is a very active area in academic philosophy and there are, objectively speaking, several reasons to think that consciousness is not solely a material process (whether or not you think these are good reasons is for you to decide). For an accessible introduction to this topic I recommend Facing up to the problem of consciousness by David Chalmers. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the Knowledge Argument is also a good intro if you are looking to dive right into something a bit more technical.

Was this information about his bank transactions released in the Epstein files?

Okay thanks for the heads up

Thank you!

How do we know the information they make public isn’t cherry picked to make them look good? It takes a lot of trust in the Chinese government take the cases they do publicize at face value and assume that nothing else is going on, because without the total numbers it’s impossible to know how many cases are being omitted.

I don’t think I could bring myself up to that level of trust. It’s not even anything against the Chinese government in particular; I don’t know if I’d trust any government to that degree.

but I’m not going to say the PRC is executing people willy-nilly.

But how do you know that if they keep the numbers secret?

It does sound interesting. Where do I start?

The execution thing does seem backwards though, no? The death penalty in general seems pretty backwards. It’s no less barbaric when China does it than when the US does it. Most civilized countries do not kill their own citizens.

Hi there. Can you talk to the astronauts for us lol?

Do we have amateur radio guys on the fediverse?

What kind of slander and misinformation are you talking about? (Genuine question)

went to see bluesky when people started boycotting social medias and it seemed to be full of bot posts instantly

We don’t have bots yet because we’re still small. But if we continue to grow (which would be a good thing imo, less people on big tech) then we will eventually have to deal with bots too. What’s the fediverse solution to that? Is it just manually reviewing account creation requests by server mods? That doesn’t seem like a solution that scales well.

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More cross-talk would be a good way to make lemmy seem more active, too (which would address a common complaint that people have about lemmy, ie that its not active enough) because there is comparatively more activity on mastodon

Not surprising, given it’s not really the same kind of platform as the broader fediverse is.

Why is that? (I’m a noob please explain)

Jesus Christ, I don’t even know what to say. That’s absolutely horrific. I hope you and your family are safe.

Damn. What were the protests like? I heard people were getting killed?