What is the reason you think philosophy of the mind exists as a field of study?

In part, so we don’t assign intelligence to mindless, unaware, unthinking things like slime mold - it’s so we keep our definitions clear and useful, so we can communicate about and understand what intelligence even is.

What you’re doing actually creates an unclear and useless definition that makes communication harder and spreads misunderstanding. Your definition of intelligence, which is what the AI companies use, has made people more confused than ever about “intelligence” and only serves the interests of the companies for generating hype and attracting investor cash.

Let me rephrase. If your definition of intelligence includes slime mold then the term is not very useful.

There’s a reason philosophy of the mind exists as a field of study. If we just assign intelligence to anything that can solve problems, which is what you seem to be doing, we are forced to assign intelligence to things which clearly don’t have minds and aren’t aware and can’t think. That’s a problem.

If your definition of intelligence doesn’t include awareness it’s not very useful.

Republicans are going to kill me, but Democrats let them.

I’m not saying the Democrats could do anything now, but that they could have done this same thing when Biden was president.

Democrats certainly acted like they needed a 3/5 override, it’s no wonder you thought so.

Bouta find out if the parliamentarian is real, or just something Democrats pretend is real.

So is mine, but if there isn’t a civil war my state is still going to put me in a camp for being trans.

Let me rephrase: do you think we’ll be safe if the US doesn’t collapse?

You can’t get enough people to vote for your cause

But… enough people just voted for Mamdani? That’s what the thread is about?

establishment “leftists”

Who?

That’s what’s going to happen to us if the US doesn’t collapse.

The Federal government is going to draw up and execute its budget as if they had the funds anyway.

That’s what I was getting at when I pointed out the fact that the feds print their own money. The federal government would be fine.

I was just running the thought experiment of “would this even do anything” under the assumption that it was successful. And it’s a fantasy on its face, even in the best case scenario it accomplishes nothing.

And the best case isn’t what would happen, because ultimately you’re right and this won’t be allowed. There are a lot of mechanisms the federal government has to compell the states to pay their dues.

I have no idea if this would even do anything.

The federal government prints money. If the states don’t pay the federal government it doesn’t actually mean the government will run out of money.

What will happen is the money supply will balloon, because federal payments are one of the ways the government controls the money supply. If those payments don’t go back to the feds, the delayed payments will stay in circulation.

That might create inflation? Will it do anything else? Again, no idea.

Inshallah

He’d live way longer if he stopped eating McDonald’s

Our vegan super soldiers are unaffected.

My understanding is that the reason LLMs struggle with solving math and logic problems is that those have certain answers, not probabilistic ones. That seems pretty fundamentally different from humans! In fact, we have a tendency to assign too much certainty to things which are actually probabilistic, which leads to its own reasoning errors. But we can also correctly identify actual truth, prove it through induction and deduction, and then hold onto that truth forever and use it to learn even more things.

We certainly do probabilistic reasoning, but we also do axiomatic reasoning i.e. more than probability engines.

Ending the filibuster would need to be accompanied by a rapid plan to essentially erase the Republican Party in its current form: mass political education, deep and broad electoral reforms, vast increases in small-d democratic participation, and probably many more radical reforms that would essentially rewrite the country.

But this would probably also erase the Democratic Party too, so they’d never do it.

They do no believe the world is going to last, so their plan is to squeeze every bit of juice out of it as fast as possible before the End.

Slime mold can solve mazes.

So why is a real “thinking” AI likely impossible? Because it’s bodiless. It has no senses, no flesh, no nerves, no pain, no pleasure. It doesn’t hunger, desire or fear. And because there is no cognition — not a shred — there’s a fundamental gap between the data it consumes (data born out of human feelings and experience) and what it can do with them.

What? No.

Chatbots can’t think because they literally aren’t designed to think. If you somehow gave a chatbot a body it would be just as mindless because it’s just a probability engine.