Yesssss

nothing you can really grab onto and enjoy.

I thoroughly enjoy most of their albums. They’re amazing. So funky, fast, and ruthlessly aggressive.

Just trust the government with your identity bro

Windows gives me more control over my machine, but iOS actually works, and gives me the UNIX-like command line. Still sticking with Linux though because it gives me even more control.

Yeah but you’re not supposed to say it.

Wake up!

fully conscious according to any test I can think of

There’s no such thing as an actual test for consciousness in machines. We can do tests on animals to see if their sensory experience includes self-awareness, but we’re already operating on the assumption that they have feelings and sensory experience because they have a brain and nervous system like us, and they’re all directly related to us (as all organisms are). But that’s totally different from designing a machine which mimics (or predicts/auto-completes) our observable behavior and then assuming that it “doesn’t like” something or does anything “for fun.”

What sucks is that some idiots are going to start falling for this. And eventually software will be given human rights, which actually means that the software’s owners will have extra rights compared to the rest of us.