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Comment Re:Slavery (Score 2) 236

(taking a step back, it is still a computer program executing bazillions of jumps, moves, adds, etc. Hard to see something conscious in there.)

We are a bunch of neurons meeting action potentials and firing synapses... Hard to see something conscious in there.

(Not that current AI is conscious, just that it's an eventual outcome.)

Comment Re:We are raising a society of pussies. (Score 2) 264

the father accustoms himself to become like his child and fears his sons, while the son likens himself to his father, and feels neither shame nor fear in front of his parents, so he may be free ; the metic [563a] becomes the equal of a citizen and the citizen of a metic, and similarly with the foreigner.
It indeed so happens, he said.
To these, said I, such trifles do add up: the teacher, in such a case, fears his pupils and fawns upon them, while pupils have in low esteem their teachers as well as their overseers; and, overall, the young copy the elders and contend hotly with them in words and in deeds, while the elders, lowering themselves to the level of the young, sate themselves with pleasantries [563b] and wit, mimicking the young in order not to look unpleasant and despotic.

- Plato's "The Republic" (ca 375 BCE)

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