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if you have a bot with a simple model that keeps an internal state of happiness and uses machine learning to determine sentiment, update its model, and generate a response, ie the nicer you are to it the nicer it will be, would that be conscious?

I would say yes because there are degrees of consciousness

thats true, I guess theyre not required for consciousness but thats how it evolved here on Earth. I suppose all you would need is to be able to have a mental map of the world, however it happens

because we have neurons and a glass of water doesnt

what is going on with those screenshots, why would you add a torn paper effect to pictures of your high tech product

Lex is only eating meat? like in addition to supplements or is he just forgoing fiber

yup, I'm working on a contract for HRSA and open source is a requirement

just the way they present stuff like the ceramics or chips is very nice, it makes it feel futuristic even when the actual in development tech has already advanced years past this point

these are data entries from all over the UK so its most certainly not clean data

I'm working on a system where the users supply equations as rules and in a roundabout way we came across static vs dynamic typing.

having users have to define each equation and its type (boolean, numerical, etc) would make it simple and foolproof, but add extra work and requires defining each equation separately when a lot of them are just partitioning the space (imagine 30 combinations of x, y and z) so we ended up deriving the type from how its result is being used, but that puts the work of getting it right on the user

all you have to do is watch a nature documentary to see many different animal species reason, work together and have emotional reactions which shows that they have a sense of self and thus a consciousness

oh wow I love your insane hand holding a scroll website

the problem is that when you step out of genre fiction, you cant just recommend a book with a similar plot or setting, it needs to have a similar style of writing and sensibility and thats very hard to determine.

the best way is friending/following people and learning their tastes compared to yours

e: if you go to a specific book and look up similar books, goodreads actually does a pretty good job https://www.goodreads.com/book/similar/1994351-j-r

god yes, I just google author name or book goodreads to avoid using their search

tbh the main use I have for a text editor is comparing files

this site is fine since these are submissions but its so satisfying when you can just edit parts of the url and go directly to the date and category you want

yeah but then you'll just make them use SAS and nobody wants that. just try convincing anyone who graduated two decades ago to use something reasonable like R

not when obesity varies so much geographically

and if you go one step further with a chemex you'll make a pour-over as good as any third wave coffee shop