@KTmBoyle Hummm... Consequentialism ? Do you *really* want to go there ? It's one of worse and more intellectually lazy moral theories ever, anyone could argue for anything by that reasoning: I guess if the whole family lived in maximum security jail the kid won't have been missing ?
@valigo I hope that they put those game son STEAM, we need empirical evidence, we might bite our tongue though, people pay for lots of crappy music and shows for instance.
@mattshumer_ Likely +99 of people don't give a dam weather AI is conscious, really intelligent or can really think, they just care that it does what they want, solve some problem, that's all. If the problem is solved, it's unimportant: "But Stockfish can't really think like a chess master"
@MikeWithAHotDog@gsd_mike@howystark@davepl1968 The degree here is the key word, the scale matters a great deal, but you don't seem to have considered this, did you ? For instance, think again deeply this time about your sentence: "The entire purpose of Software is to be deterministic" Is you really correct here ?
@esrtweet "Why wheels are still round" : often times form leads function. Ultimately, music is all about human psychology and certain sounds mostly goes well with certain settings
@beffjezos Blatant ignorance in Economics, if they had read Mises "Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis" they would understand why it's mathematically impossible to any centrally plane economy to ever succeed
@MikeWithAHotDog@gsd_mike@howystark@davepl1968 They are so approximately isomorphic save for some very simplistic syntactic sugar (specially in comparison to high level languages) that on everyday conversation we end up treating as the same and the difference is often pretty much negligible.