If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues. https://t.co/Cptx3aWppI
California can shuffle politicians around but until somebody can eliminate the property tax cap and smash nimbyism at the local level it's all going to stay the same
They also don't speak to their own mother for complex reasons. So it's not just me. I have tried to reach out and not gotten anywhere. But there's still this weird hollow feeling that I lost something from my early out years and it bothers me when I think about it too much
My mom's sister's kids are both lesbians, I came out to one of them before I told either of my parents. I had a pretty close relationship with them both for a time, hung out with their friends, and went to a gay bar the first time with one of them. Then it just kind of withered
I haven't spoken to either of them directly since before the pandemic. One is married now and has a son I've never met. Lots of reasons why it happened, we moved away from each other, I made more friends etc. But it does bother me that part of my life is just mothballed now
There's a really annoying genre of post on here now where someone will post "exactly!" underneath an image of some situation or meme that's clearly AI generated