jjcon

That is because consciousness isn't a scientific concept but a philosophical, and sometimes religious one.

>What we're really looking for is a machine that, like a human, decides on its own which problems to solve, and solves them without needing to be specifically directed to do so.

We already have AI based agents that do this but no matter how sophisticated they are people can always claim they are hardwired and deterministic, while not realizing we can always claim the same thing about humans. Again these are distinctions of philosophy word games and therefore don't find get much traction in the research world.

How about you solve your business model that relies on the generosity and goodwill of people not to take an infinitely distributable good.

Maybe it isn't morally coherent but I am all for resisting the US government's pro monopoly positions by pirating from said monopolies. True resistance will never be legal in a framework where the rules are dictated by authoritarian governments or in this case corporations.

That is certainly false - perhaps with extremely limited amounts of parallax yes but that isn't how this setup is working. Humans certainly use heuristics not only because our brains are capable of it but also because a face only has a few mm of separation, with enough parallax you can get phenomenal 3d information out of a visual system. Replacing a single sensor here is certainly not too general for good performance but also my point again was never to say this was an optimal or perfect solution only to say evolutionary arguments are stupid here because we build machines and algorithms every day that operate better than evolution does.

I mean tons of technology outperforms humans by a mile... plenty of other computer vision systems already outperform people so not sure why Tesla would be exempt here due to 'evolution'.

Read more carefully that isn't what the paper showed - it showed that those with previous psychological problems were 50% more likely to have long covid COMPARED to those that didn't have previous problems

Medicine isn't 'think about it for a sec' - you made direct claims using unscientific terms - Cushings is a very specific and relatively rare disease that has no realm of relevance here. Not sure where you are trying to go with this but it is obvious you have no medical background or standing.

So are people with HIV, Parkinson’s etc… I’m not sure how that is at all relevant here

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/980527

“ In an analysis of almost 55,000 adult participants in three ongoing studies, having depression, anxiety, worry, perceived stress, or loneliness early in the pandemic, before SARS-CoV-2 infection, was associated with a 50% increased risk for developing long COVID”

“ In an analysis of almost 55,000 adult participants in three ongoing studies, having depression, anxiety, worry, perceived stress, or loneliness early in the pandemic, before SARS-CoV-2 infection, was associated with a 50% increased risk for developing long COVID”

You are notably omitting that those specific samples were kept at -20° C. I don’t know any country that does that for their Guthrie samples.

It seems to me like DNA is just new and techie so people are inherently thinking it is more useful and scary than it really is.

Misused how exactly? It is extremely trivial to collect someone’s DNA if you are trying to actively target them… but even then… what would the gov do with it wrt activists dissidents etc? maybe I need to read more sci-fi

“We and others recently have shown that DNA extracted from Guthrie cards (up to a decade old) or blood spots can be used to perform whole-genome methylation analysis”