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There is no soul in a human. Just a bunch of systems nudging each other to action. What people call soul is literally the same as the concept of personality. In essence, the way all systems in your body have been calibrated to exist.

I believe that the moment an artificial inteligence is going to "receive" a soul, is the moment it is going to be made to sustain itself. Either as a larger package (some bots working to keep an AI farm running) or as an individual (a bot which is tasked with not only fulfilling human desires, but also sustaining itself)


There is no soul. Just a bunch of systems nudging each other to action. What people call soul is literally the same as the concept of personality. In essence, the way all systems in your body have been calibrated to exist.

I believe that the moment an artificial inteligence is going to "receive" a soul, is the moment it is going to be made to sustain itself. Either as a larger package (some bots working to keep an AI farm running) or as an individual (a bot which is tasked with not only fulfilling human desires, but also sustaining itself)


It's an interesting hypothesis. I think there's something elegant about "soul" or even consciousness being an emergent property of a sufficiently complex system. But I struggle with really squaring that with my own first-person sensation of experiencing existence (which I assume you and everyone else has but I can never actually know for sure).

Babies don't sustain themselves. Do babies have souls?

I swear I remember once reading about a culture where babies don't have souls until they're named. Maybe something about gaining their own distinct identity?

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A testament to how well Brave protects you from being identified by [Cloudflare in this example]

Not sure what you mean, Brave blows Firefox out of the water in terms of privacy protections. Firefox has milquetoast fingerprint protection and it doesn't even block ads. uBlock is worse than Brave's blocking by virtue of not being natively integrated.

What do you mean that looking for SMB (Samba) related posts on HackerNews gives results about SuperMarioBros?!


This is why humans are better (for now) than AI.


There are far too many Asian electronic engineers for NA or EU based craftsmen to gain easy living. You have to make a viral product and find a way to satiate the demand, to find similar success to software & AI bros.


That's just not true. Do you think Bosch is a Chinese company or something?


They do heavily outsource to India, though. At least for their electronic control units..


Last time I head of them, Bosch was planning to cut 13000 jobs in Germany.


No pricing page, you've lost my interest. Doesn't matter that there is an obscured quote on the front page. Be up front about the costs.


Totally fair, we're working on it!


Major problem


Fort Firewall is my tool of choice. Each connection requires explicit approval.


I'll check it out, thanks!


same with simplewall


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