Yes true. I allow Reddit because I actually have a ton of friendly interactions on it and usually makes me laugh! Fair point though. I deleted twitter, Facebook and insta permanently and haven’t looked back, those are all huge wins for me and my mental health

Shows how easy it is to get sucked back in. I catch myself all the time sinking back to the habit.

I’m the opposite. I’m 28 and know a lot of people including myself that suffered a mental health crisis from social media consumption and I don’t touch it with a 10 foot pole now. No regrets, holy hell did that shit consume me and others. I’m glad to be more rooted in the physical world now, it has brought me an immense amount more happiness.

I know very few people that talk about the app or care about it in a meaningful way, I cannot imagine people my age lashing out at a ban whatsoever. Adults have more important things going on and there are dozens of alternatives that aren’t owned by a country that views us as it’s mortal enemy and banned our social media without hesitation.

We are drastically overestimating the backlash to this decision to ban them, which is a prudent decision based on the CCPs own statements, countless vague threats and aggressive anti-democracy and U.S. rhetoric

He should realize that’s very bad news for him. The kids are the ones that will raise a stink on this, the adults will see this for what it is and move on to another app. Kids also have extremely little influence on our society.

TikTok/CCP realllllyyy misread the US response to this. They screwed up doubly with the balloon incident. Congress just galvanized around this in bipartisan showing, there will be more resolve now to do something about TikTok. I would not have imagined this was possible 2 months ago.

I think the novelty alone might clinch it even if it kinda sucks tho

Can you imagine how wealthy someone would get if they created an AI author that makes a themed series of books while imitating a certain human persona and maintaining a social media presence?

After messing with it, my impression was it does feels far off, but it may honestly just be 1 or 2 more orders of magnitude away for computing power and it could happen fast. At the end of the day, I was extremely impressed.

I don’t think it’s unrealistic to imagine AI becoming 100x more powerful than today, more a question of when not if. Just my opinion!

I mean I’d argue it can do both. Just a like a human, we understand when we did something wrong based on the outward feedback of our decision.

ChatGPT is taught to to act the way it does but isnt that exactly how humans work? Learn what we are taught as we develop and slowly adapt our behavior based on real world feedback to meet our desired goals?

I like this answer personally. How does one even define consciousness? Subjective thought? I personally don’t think so but the who hell knows?

Subjective thought is Darwinism at work. We need to perceive only what helps us survive and pass our genetics, trying to get the full picture of the world is a futile cause. Evolution said screw that, let’s just smooth over the real stuff we can’t actively comprehend.

We can’t fully grasp the world around us, not even close, so what makes us more conscious than a dog? We can perceive marginally more but neither species comes even remotely close to full worldly perception.

I don’t see how it contradicted itself at all.

Ultimately it argues consciousness is tricky and not well understood scientifically, thus, it highlights some thought experiments where we guess some of the rules to “consciousness” and see if it makes sense to our understanding.

Consciousness is impossible to define even for humans. We have no idea what ultimately makes us conscious but it uses subjective thought as an example of what we generally are looking for in “consciousness”