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dugin mentioned
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because im a socialist, i obviously wish spacex could be nationalized, but the truth is that the government just refuses to invest in space.
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sls is the vehicle for nasa's artemis project trying to return to the moon. they have launched one rocket since 2011 and gone way over budget.
my point is that rocketry is difficult and spacex (not musk) has done a better job than nasa in the last few decades, because nasa is held back by politics.
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are you having trouble parsing the minuscules?
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do you have a breakdown by age? i cant find the data you quoted.
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that sls sucks
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sorry, but sending 1 rocket around the moon 5 years behind schedule and way over budget isnt very impressive either. i know its all politicians fault, etc, but i cant stand sls glazing.
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hate to be seen as defending musk, but starship is a completely different kind of rocket than what has existed before and it is currently in development. they successfully launch falcon 9 rockets all the time.
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homage to catalonia for sure
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buddy. right above you theres a poll showing 53% of us adults have a negative view of israel, so fuck right off with this bullshit.
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good on you, now stop making it everyone elses problem.
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i wish i could have a new yorker subscription. ive a bought couple of issues and they always bang.
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maybe some, but they usually dont get very far if they are open about it.
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yeah, by my definition, kinda. dems suck ass but that doesnt make it acceptable not to vote for them in the general.
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"left" and "leftist" are really vague terms, but i usually use "leftist" to mean progressive & anti-capitalist and "left" to mean anyone who is in any way left of center.
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sorkin is the saruman to their urukhai
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okay! thanks for engaging. my question would be, if a simulation is perfectly descriptive of a system, whats really the difference between the simulation and the system itself?
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they are hypothetical, so call them what you want. i would argue that certain dog breeds have been already been bread to respond to commands better than other dogs. so what? are we gonna start busting out the latin? is your argument that computer program cant be sentient because of taxonomy?
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if we are still apes, i think we can consider any hypotetical descendants of dogs to be dogs. we are just talking taxonomy now, though.
what i wanna know is if they somehow made a perfect digital simulation of the human brain (i know thats not what chatgpt is), why would that not be consciousness?
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when i say "dogs could learn syntax" i obviously meant over multiple generations.
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i didnt realize the ms paint devs were trying to pivot
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why could you not simulate that nervous tissue digitally? and i really dont see why dogs couldnt learn syntax, we were apes that learned syntax.
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yeah, chatgpt sucks. i agree. this is more of a philosophical argument, though.
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sure, but the human brain does that too. its only a tiny part of what it does, but it is replicating _a_ function of the human brain.
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i agree that chatgpt isnt anywhere near sentience, but how can you be sure it will never get there? do you think biological brains are imbued with some mystical property or soul that machines cant replicate?
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i fucking love tits, dude, especially when theyve got tail.
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omg
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what in the name of god is a "sex class"
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so, senile?
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nah, the underlying point about alienation is true, but because he is a fascist he needs to say it chauvinistically.
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neoconservatives are liberals.
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oh no, i checked their account