lemmy689

Hold out for the super-duper-duper intelligence.

I’ve had 3 or 4 already of this exact msg.

You would have to look up the meaning of anthropomorphism if it’s not clear.

I don’t think it’s useful to anthropomorphise it.

What’s the point?

That’s been a raging debate, an existential exercise. In real world conditions, we have free will, freeer than it’s ever been. We can be whatever we will ourselves to believe.

Gotta quit anthropomorphising machines. It takes free will to be a psychopath, all else is just imitating.

Just fyi, it begins with vger.

“V’ger was a massive entity and one of the most extraordinary lifeforms ever encountered by the United Federation of Planets. It generated enormous levels of power and threatened Earth with destruction until it found a way to evolve”

“…On its journey back, it amassed so much knowledge, it achieved consciousness itself. It became a living thing.” James T. Kirk

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/V'Ger

I don’t think a device will ever have a thought. I find it somewhat akin to a belief in the anamism of objects, that it will aquire some form of life force of its own. What a thought is, is a complete mystery. Nobody knows why they happen, where they come from. So, who is even to determine whether an inamimate object is exhibiting signs of consciousness? There are some people that believe it, others are just running a con.

“Don’t call that dog “lifesaver;” call him “shithead.””

https://clip.cafe/the-jerk-1979/dont-call-dog-lifesaver/

Come Mr taliban, taliban bananas

XANADU!

Or perhaps

TESTIFY!

You should only piss on the lawn when it’s raining, helps dilute the nitrogen so you don’t get those pee burns that turn the grass brown.

Also Diaspora.

A bit of dementia.

When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide

Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride

'Til I get to the bottom and I see you again

Yeah, yeah, yeah, ha-ha-ha!

Poseidon is getting a little pissed off.

I think it depends on the definition of own, if it can be sold to someone else who will then own it. If it doesn’t have value like that, then it is just something you have, like pocket lint.

I get that too, it can be difficult to get help. I try to ignore it and have been using Linux for about 15 years as an OS. I use Kubuntu on my laptop, but I’ve used Mint also. I’m thinking of changing back but it’s so much work, and there are a lot of other options I’d like to try.

I’ve had my network locked out as well, the first iteration of ProtonVPN I used would lock it out if you didn’t close the app before shutting down. I contacted Proton and they sent me the commands to unlock it, so I have them handy in a file. That problem was fixed, afaik, because I can shut down without exiting the app now. I haven’t had my comp suspend, Linux used to have a problem with suspend so I’ve stayed away from it. I haven’t had any problems with Proton otherwise, I used it on my Android as well, I have a paid plan.