this is an interesting point in the new ted chiang piece – no one really claims that alphafold is conscious, or that sora or midjourney or dall-e are conscious
@_Tacticute@Demon_Realms What about the difference between a dutch speaking Tech Worker from Ghent compared to a french speaking left-behind former Mining worker around Liege? You are equating cross-national socio-economic differences to culture...
@LiberaNos_AMalo@StefanMcGrath@AlexArborist So do you think that a Dutch speaking Belgian, a German Speaking Belgian and a French speaking Belgian are all much more similar on that front?
@_Tacticute@Demon_Realms Not really given that the real distance through modern travel and communication infrastructure is a lot smaller, in the general timeframe of European settlement in the US. Cultural differences arose because a peasant in Belgium is disconnected from a peasant in Western Russia
@postoctobrist@who_shot_jgr To be honest it was a poor choice of judgment for JFK to take a slow drive right in front of the Kennedy Assassination Museum in Dallas