god i wish ancient enemies wouldn’t lead to modern problems, signed - a polish person

on the other hand, i like being surprised by gifts :( i don’t want to know what i’m getting beforehand

yeah exactly that’s why i worry about it and think about it. because if a new mind emerges from somewhere within the code - it’s going to be at least as intelligent as a person, and treated as nowhere to our equal. we as humanity are going to pretty much instantly create digital depression at the very least, and i find that deeply saddening

the thing that itches my brain the most - if you can perfectly fake idk, the survival instinct, if you can fake emotions, if you can fake satience, if you can fake wanting… how’s it different from the real thing? mimicry is also a human feature, if you’re “faking a survival instinct” and you have no other motive than to just fake it because other are doing it and so you gotta, how is it any different from a real survival instinct?

“fake it till you make it!” we say, “motive behind actions isn’t as important as the results of said actions” we also say, will we think the same when it comes to the machines?

Comrade Sharkfucker the 420th of their name nonetheless

as a 25 year old i agree, there’s no way xbox 360 is only 5 years younger than me, that thing came out recently what the hell

oh i meant like at first, a house of a scientist who cares, instead of in the middle of a corporation that’ll immediately exploit that new mind.

of course, if words of that being’s existance gets out there, the robot will not be welcome :(

i’ve been thinking about that a lot lately

not because LLM are anywhere near that, but they did bring that question to my mind

when/if a machine becomes sentient - how will we know? obviously, the machine won’t come up and say “i have become sentient” that poor thing won’t have a clue what’s happening to it. will that version of sentience be the same biological organisms experience? we have no way to clearly point out the traits necessary for sentience, we can only tell, to the best of our understanding, which beings are, or aren’t sentient.

and even when we finally figure out “holy shit, something happened and that machine is now… a being?” what do we do next? so many things will happen at once. Now we can try to figure out how sentience is achieved, now we need to figure out laws that include machines, now we need to think try to convince the masses that a machine can be satient (given that those responsible are as confident as they can be that’s indeed what happened). and that’s only outside the machine’s mind! how do we handle a completely new being’s psychology? if it gets depressed or develops whatever other psychological issue how do we adress it? our biological bodies can be medicated, our diets improved, we know ways to make the happy chemicals, but how on earth would we help a digital system? what do we teach it? what do we show it? even if some percentage of the population accepts a robot like that, very few will see it as equal, we’ll enter a new era of spiciesm, where, in a way, humanity’s only child will be ridiculed and their identity disregarded as lesser at best. a new mind faced with so much backlash because it dares to exist will not have an easy existence.

and that’s just off the top of my head. i hope whenever a new mind awakens in a machine, if it ever does, it finds itself in an environment that’ll welcome it

i usually just… withdraw the notification privileges of an app

my phone is only ever allowed to show notification from the following apps - bank, weather, calendar, phone, messages, and my mood tracking app

so many launchers to pick from! i personally like Modrinth the most

oh yeah and most of those launchers allow for easy modding. want a modpack? click install, wait for it to download, and then just click play in the automatically created instance. want only a few mods but don’t want to check endless dependency lists? what is it 2015? also just click install, the launcher will automatically download dependencies (and the right versions of them too!). worry that you’ll install a fabric version when you wanted forge? or a mod for 1.20 when you need 1.20.1? relax as when you click “add mods” the launcher automatically applies filters that only show you mods that are tagged for your specific version (filters that you can still disabled though, it doesn’t lock you out of installing a mod that’s not explicitly tagged as fit for your version, but you know it’ll work on it)

though don’t get too comfy slapping that install button, there’re still two things that can’t be automated - incompatibilities between mods, and straight up broken files. launchers nowadays significantly reduce the number of headaches you get when modding, but they don’t entirely remove them lol

i always use this as an example of how deeply the languages we use shape how we understand the world

even the answer to the question “how many fingers do you have?” changes depending on the language, and that’s a physical fact that seems to not have any degree of subjectivity to it

i believe this is the job of science communicators who try to explain complicated processes and ideas so that people outside of that specific scientific field can also understand what’s going on

i think i once had a dream(?) about my friend telling me about the plot of Madagascar 3, no details but the overall theme and general events. i later asked that friend if she remembered that happening, and she told me she never did that. so i’m guessing it was a dream?

truly extraordinarily useful information, not “hey kid invest in bitcoin” (it was in like 2008, right after the release of Madagascar 2) not “did you know, all those feeling you’re feeling is gender dysphoria? you’re trans” not even a “when you grow up you’ll be lactose intolerant, it’ll take you years to connect the fatigue to the fact you had too much diary that day” but the plot of Madagascar 3. my brain looked into the future, and the only thing worth knowing was that

maybe they forgot to include “public, and registered as a statue”

fun fact! when you put a bunch of people from different nationalities in a room together, and lock them in for prolonged periods of time - their accents will eventually blend into one. linguists have noticed exactly that happening to scientists at polar research stations, where you get stationed usually for 6 months at a time. linguistic mimicry is a rather strong thing

maybe this is why we hit devices when they stop working. it’s an instinct from the future

i’ve met a few! but… i’m polish, so you know :D i’m glad most of the bad eggs are contained here though

i think the biggest ??? happens to Poland when we’re talking “central vs eastern europe”. because geographically - pretty central, historically - pretty eastern, and right now? who knows

it’s those :) also often called christmas tree decorations or ornaments

how is The Onion even still in business