H Ramus

7+ billion people on the planet. Some are dumb. Some are really dumb. Some are bored. Some are children with no life experience. The internet amplifies voices which, in real life, are ignored or disregarded as meritless. There’s no non-verbal communication online hence lots will be misinterpreted.

This will happen lots of times by no fault of yours. You can’t see “the other side” of the conversation so who knows who they are and their motives. I’ll ignore muppets in real life. Harder to spot online but your example will give you clues. And muppets can band together. Move on, they’ll continue to be muppets no matter how much effort and energy is spent debating people who act in bad faith.

No idea what happens in Yank lands. Had joined WhatsApp when it started in the late 00s but multiple changes to Ts and Cs killed it for me.

I’ve also deleted WhatsApp when they changed their terms to some bullshit data sharing or something. It’s tough when everyone and businesses use WhatsApp as the only means of communication. Average person doesn’t even think about tech providers and we’re all worse off getting swept in the tide of ignorance.

Can very well be but wasn’t my experience. I also prefer the visual layout of degoog.

I found Degoog to be easier to deploy for my non-technical skills. A docker container and I was done.

IP is only an issue when not swallowed by LLMs. We want action taken to protect the IP of writers, artists and consumers but alas big corpos aren’t losing money there. Selective application of IP protection deems the regime as inappropriate and unenforceable (unless someone with paedophile connections is losing money).

They were scumbags against most teams not just the French. Mussiala, who I’ve never seen rilled up, had a flying tackle against Paraguay. I’ve watched Copa America and even for that competition this was over the top. Argentina just has a bigger profile but similar filthy players.

Why isn’t Paraguay shunned anymore? They played like thugs against most teams, famously against France.

This is a crime against humanity.

Right? It’s pretty customisable as well. It’s great!

Have a look at this project - Degoog.

I’m self-hosting mine but there are public instances as well. I find it to be pretty impressive and the lead developer seems like a super dude.

That’s before enshitification sets in and tech companies start jacking up prices and delivering a poorer service. “AI” will become more and more erratic as inputs become polluted with generated slop. The firehose of human knowledge will reduce and so the capabilities of LLMs. Golden age of “AI” is now

Yes, exactly my point. How can an insect feel pain when they’re devoid of the complex machinery that allows them to have pain emotion and connect the pain experience to a self.

I took more issue with the use of “feel” as that’s normally associated with a human experience of feeling. An insect lacks “hardware” to approximate a human experience of feeling.

Trying to bring the difference between nocioception, experience of pain and having a subjective experience of pain. Different physical and emotional phenomena.

Does a crab look like it’s feeling pain when it yanks one of its claws out? Mostly seems unphased and it has a far more complex biology than an insect.

For example, when under anesthesia and having skin pricked without being made aware/conscious that the skin has been damaged and the body is working to restore it. This would be viewed as “feeling” pain as the body adjusts and focuses resources in addressing it. However, the experience of pain was not possible due to lack of awareness impeding a conscious representation of reality.

“Feel” is something that requires consciousness and a sense of awareness that the pain being experienced is self-related. Consciousness requires complex systems and a nervous system which insects do not possess. Whilst reactive and reflexive actions are performed, whether they experience pain as a personal subjective phenomenon is something that isn’t tested. Reaction isn’t a proxy to consciousness.

Would a bacteria “feel” pain because it reacts to the environment?

I say this as someone that has almost a Buddhist approach to respecting living creatures. However, the science of consciousness and a physicalist approach inform my views.

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Ads and jacking up prices. Netflix anyone?

Thought I was in the shitposting community.