If you have a "maybe" to offer, please don't unless you have a way to test for it.
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A machine can easily be #conscious, #sapient, #sentient, #selfaware, all of that.
It just needs sensors and the ability to describe what it senses. It's not a special quality unique to humans, or even animals.
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Look at the biggest, most muscular body builder ever, and remember that a relatively small boulder could easily crush him.
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Confidence isn't so great. Hitler had it.
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Just because something is uncomfortable for you doesn't make it a bad thing, it just makes it uncomfortable.
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It's good to acknowledge your ignorance. It's a problem to take pride in it.
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Evolution really just provided the life forms that happened to change a certain way at a certain time. There was no plan, no strategy, no goal, and definitely no optimization.
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Forgiveness doesn't mean pretending it didn't happen.
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Don't tell someone that you don't trust that you don't trust them.
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There are two kinds of comedians:
"This is really funny",
"I'm really funny"
I hate the second type.
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