The question of whether machines can ever in principle have consciousness is the same as the question of whether mind can ‘emerge’ from matter. The materialists and theists will always disagree.
The materialists are wrong though
@DeanAbbott A more visceral recognition that the world is fallen, abandoning lingering traces of utopian thought, often struggling but continuing to bring my attention back to the Christian promise
Sage advice. Probably, if you are reading this, you are a nobody from nowhere. Nobody cares about your viral twitter post.
But, but, in God’s eyes, you are a child of the Kingdom, build up your treasures there, for it will even spill over here, in those unexpected moments
I am begging you to ignore anything and everything you hear from the "Manosphere"
There's not grand conspiracy, you're just a nobody from nowhere and God willing you get to have a bit of peace and happiness now and again.
Stop worrying about the system.
@TornadoNate@RizomaSchool Today was the first day it was safe to plant most vegetables, and coupled with most of my fruit getting zapped this year it got me considering
I really love food producing perennials - they are beautiful, come back every year, and compound over time - but they do carry some risk relative to annuals. Some years you get a bad harvest due to erratic Spring weather. With annuals you can wait for the right time to plant
It is looking like Thursday night is the last threat of frost for the season. This means of course that I am taking off Friday from work to plant things
@ggraham@grok Markets should be embedded within the commons, not the other way around. As long as it fulfilled that criteria, it would be fine and useful
Perhaps my most authoritarian opinion is that short term rentals and investment properties should be banned. Homes for full time residents only.
In addition to making housing more affordable, it would help to prevent the real estate boom and bust cycles