I mean we are already demigods. It's not a huge leap to complete the transformation.

The least optimistic scenarios are significantly less optimistic than that. 😬

It's Reddit, you might as well go to your local Communist Party meeting and bring this up. Don't waste your energy.

One step closer to curing the dreaded prion diseases. One day. 🙏

I'm thinking of leaving this sub. The quality over just the last month has been in freefall.

I think you're being too nice to this arsehole. They just insulted you. They're beneath being worthy of your time.

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This is such a foolish myopic mentality. May I ask how old you are, out of interest?

Yes, absolutely. If I lived in the Star Trek universe I would actively seek out the Borg. The experience is described as blissful.

Now get ChatGPT to explain it in the style of a Nick Cave song.

Very interesting. I'll need a while to think about this perspective.

I think it's still a work in progress.

>build a space ship in your back yard

I'm pretty sure there is some guy in Africa that built a space ship in his back yard on YouTube. 😂

He said consciousness is an illusion though.

>It's common to suppose that consciousness is "caused by some physical, biological process", yes?

It's common, but I think it's highly erroneous. I don't subscribe to mainstream physicalism. I'm an Analtytical Idealist. I suspect what we see when we observe the brain is the image of life, as seen within our own perception. Not the thing in itself. It's like the dials on a dashboard.

As a side note, just out of interest, do you really believe there are humans without subjective inner experience?

Is it "like" something to be ChatGPT? Does it have a subjective inner experience? If someone answers yes or maybe to these questions, personally I'm highly confident that they don't know what they're talking about.

We have no good reason whatsoever to think they don't. You're choosing to side with solipsism? Really?

> personally don’t think so but the who hell knows?

You don't think consciousness is defined by subjectivity?

>so what makes us more conscious than a dog?

Do you think dogs have subjective experience? It seems absurd to think they don't.

Oh yes there are. There are plenty of catastrophically confused philosophers when it comes to this. Have you read any Dan Dennett?

Some people including famous philosophers are deeply confused about this. Look at Dan Dennett for example, claiming consciousness is an illusion. It stems from an alarming lack of introspection.

I'm tall as well (6 4) but to be honest I feel like we take it for granted to some extent. A lot of shorter guys are really bothered by it.

It's also worth pointing out not every wealthy person is a sociopathic Monty Burns who doesn't care about the quality of life for all humanity. Many wealthy people donate the vast majority of their wealth throughout their lives.

Exactly. They said tap water, antibiotics, cars, aeroplanes, personal computers and the internet would be available to everyone too. Last time I checked though, only the richest kings of Europe could afford any of those. What a scam!

Bezos isn't actually as much of a jerk as many people think he is. Of course being human he's a complicated character and he has done some bad things there's no doubt about that.

Wait a minute, there are people who just... put up with the chirp? What the fuck? That's horrifying!