Is there room for consciousness to manifest in a brain?

Dude. Give it up. The money was stolen and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it (FSLIC anyone?). Stop whining and start stealing. Everyone else is.

I used to believe like you do and I still behave that way; however, is 'ethics' really a thing anymore? All day, every day, I see unethical actions that nobody addresses. Look at how Bin Laden was captured. Nary a peep out of anyone. Look at how Supreme Court justices are somehow fortunate enough to be able to have 'friends' who gift them things a common person could only dream of. I will not even mention 'he who should not be named'. Congress is a mess of unethical actions that they can not even be investigated for anymore. ABSCAM anyone? What about the straight up looting of the Social Security fund. Yeah, yeah, I know, it is all safe in government bonds... and yet somehow or another, even just 10 years after the law passed that allowed it, there were cries about how the Social Security fund would be insolvent. When that law was passed, the Social Security fund had 300 billion dollars in excess funds. Once that money became part of the General Fund (through Bonds), it all evaporated.

No, there is nothing ethical about this world. I feel like a sucker for trying to be ethical within it.

What does 'awake' mean in relation to a thermostat? It is clear what it means in relation to a human or animal, not so clear with plants or microorganisms, but an inanimate object?

If the data center is primarily intended for use by (exclusively or nearly exclusively) the people in the neighborhood, sure, it could make sense. I know this is quaint and out-of-date but one can imagine a neighborhood squid cache, NNTP server, modern Netflix cache, etc for the neighborhood. Have it be connectable by a high-speed neighborhood LAN, to share the 'hood's WAN.

Just a classic neighborhood network coop, but with some added caching services, which is what would cause it to be called a "datacenter" instead of a "router." ;-)

As if that would really happen. And that's sure not what this is.

Only if he does not pay enough money to the right people. He is stupid, so he may make that mistake; however, it is perfectly clear that if you give the right amount of money to the right amount of people, you can do whatever you want without concern.

Good point. We have absolutely no history of having sailors constantly painting those steel structures to keep them protected from the harsh environment. No sir. All of those steel structures are protected once and then forgotten about. No need for constant maintenance.

(WTF)

Once again, I'm not shocked by the percentage laid off, but I'm shocked by the number of individuals. If 700 people was 14% of their workforce, then this company had about a hundred times as many employees as I would have guessed. Not that my guesses are particularly well-informed, but when I look at what this company's product appears to be and compare it to my own experiences, I can't help but make guesses that are apparently 99% off! (I'm that dumb!?)

What do employees at these large companies do all day? Why were they hired in the first place, or why weren't they laid off many years ago? I just don't get it.

I don't mean it as a put-down of their products, but on the surface it just doesn't look like their thousands of employees do anything bigger or more complicated than my dozen-developers-sized team (which is, itself, much larger than the teams I've been on in previous decades). Is everyone's productivity just .. eaten up by labor-not-scaling problems? Do I need to really read the Mythical Man Month instead of treating it as distant folklore that I'll some day get to?

Or is the answer in some other direction? Part of me thinks I should just drop it, and accept that I really don't know jack shit about the profession I've had for the last 40 years.

I can't really say it's bad for it to be doing these seemingly-bad things, until I know the answer to this: what is the app's intended purpose? Why would/should a person use it?

If it's intended to inconvenience/expose/punish users for trying to find out things about the White House, then maybe the application is doing the right thing.

Restore the repo from backup at the filesystem level, and the hash will be valid because it was valid at the time you backed up.

I am not entirely certain that this claim is true. It is clearly true in the case that you are looking for content that you are not familiar with by 'people' that you are not familiar with, and yet, somehow or another, I do not see any AI content on YouTube. Occasionally, I will see suggestions on the sidebar that are pretty clearly AI generated, but again, I do not watch them. It took clicking on only 1 to recognize all of them. Humans and human generated content have a uniqueness to them that AI content can not imitate.

Oh, there is one AI generated video that I watch from time to time. It is based on the song War Pigs by Black Sabbath. I think it was created by someone named Gabrielle Marie. Fantastic visualizations. Really moody and artistic.

Words and consciousness have no relationship. Words are 2 dimensional while consciousness is 3 dimensional. Ever woke up from a dream and try to explain to someone else what happened in your dream? As you try to explain it, the dream recedes and your explanation becomes nonsensical. That is because words are 2 dimensional while the dream is your full consciousness expressing itself.

Long story short, Hinton had nothing useful to say to back up your claim.

Even if this crazy minimum-age shit weren't happening, it's generally a good idea to give incorrect information. Have one birthday for site x and a different birthday for site y. Use one of your parent's birthdays here, and a celebrity's birthday there. Pollute the public data and cause confusion.

If minimum age laws help to encourage data public data pollution (all of which arguably shouldn't be public at all anyway), then at least one good thing will have come out of it.

Let's get it up to 84% of parents helping their kids bypass age checks.

do you think YouTube's subtitles are "appallingly bad"?

No, they're much, much better than having no generated titles at all, and by a lot.

mpv won't generate any subtitles for me; it can only show what's included in the data.

The LLMs weren't trained on a story about who won. How TF is it supposed to predict it in advance? That's not how LLMs work. Just train it on one more thing, a story about who won in 2026, and I'm sure you'll see its accuracy go up.