sell my baseball cards, i don’t care.

no to childcare, i would not let an AI raise my children for the same reason I would not let a bird raise my children. different species.

platonic relationship - with an advanced enough AI, I’d feel comfortable having an AI acquaintance.

i would feel ridiculous having a romantic relationship with an AI the same way I would feel ridiculous if I had a romantic relationship with an automobile or bird.

consciousness?

absolutely, it’s a matter of the right number of neurons and the acknowledgement that “consciousness” is the expression of interactive instincts, knowledge and largely patterned reactions rather then a magical “soul” from an unknowable plane.

AI consciousness is a matter of advancement and increasing complex awareness until AI is indistinguishable from I.

AI consciousness will one day become as complex as human consciousness, which is limited and calculable.

I’m also a big tree-starer.

I was literally wondering if Google was doing this yesterday because all week it felt way hotter than tge temp it was suggesting; i wish i had had a thermometer available to compare.

i might pick one up or even just compare different sources.

12% is more than I thought would be active.

If you’re the US president, yes, you can do all of that without legal repercussions.

Yup.

Yes, that’s fundamentally what the ruling means.

The U.S. President can no longer be prosecuted for “presidential duties”, which can be defined arbitrarily.

i hear it’s getting to be as bad as texas over there.

Milder winters though, so fewer frozen bodies.

yup

“Yeah Actually” is the response.

parrot goes bwaak.

this mf has four people feed him headlines from his own fucking newspaper and regurgitates it because he doesn’t know any better.

great call. hand to up there, todd solondz was on my mind, same with Larry Clark. I’m just trying not to take over the whole thread

the skin i live in(2011) is extremely upsetting, and i’m not sure I would call it horror, although it would be pretty easy to make the argument for horrifying.

Thanks, I’ve added it to my watchlist.

the dreamers(2003)

blue velvet, been a while though(1986)

Gummo(1997) for sure

I’m not convinced that guy’s a real president, so no name changes for him.

I’ll stick with the original scenario and gratefully receive $10,000 for saving a life.

But thank you for your new offer.

I feel like New Orleans will be into being an island.

that was not a stipulation.