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I was writing "garbage in, garbage out". But you beat me to it.
Thought experiment:
Neuralink gets real and you can now indicate what you want in case of total cognitive failure:
  1. be a plant
  2. be able to express everything every human ever expressed, with the caveat that you cannot control what comes out
What's it gonna be?
110 sats \ 3 replies \ @freetx 15h
What's it gonna be?
Would just choose to die. To those of us who believe the soul/"consciousness spirit" is immortal death isn't that terrible of a prospect.
However I can understand why many materialist tech-bros are so panicked about wanting develop autocorrect++ so it offers them some feeble glimpse of immortality.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 15h
Me too but that's a controversial choice in some circles so if I don't get that particular choice I'd choose plant.
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110 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 15h
Technically wouldn't both choices be "plant"?
Or are we saying your brain works fine its just you can't control your speech?
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 15h
Technically wouldn't both choices be "plant"?
Exactly! But how do we create awareness for that?!? All this popular chatbot usage (best buddies, waifus, constructs of worship) is like using a chainsaw as a pillow and then proudly showing off how it cut a large chunk out of your cheek and now your teeth show through... it's a very bad use-case.
Or are we saying your brain works fine its just you can't control your speech?
I'd say no, technically a plant in both cases.
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