I like to think if it was I'd choose it, but realistically I would not because my life is unnecessarily more difficult. In a better world I would, though.

It's not a game that he would release, it's just a game he plays, by himself, in his bedroom.

Oh for fuck's sake Matthew, we thought you were cool

In British English we say "skint" which means nothing except we have no money because we are a straight forward folk

If it's simple, please explain it to me.

In all seriousness though I don't think this calculation takes into account the freezing of income tax bands. This doesn't make anyone worse off today, but compared with increasing them in line with inflation makes ALL working people worse off today and will continue to over time.

I would start with a semi modular and build from there, that way you have something playable from the beginning.

Sorry, got my Bs mixed up! You're right.

Again, I don't think they're conscious, but without knowing 1) what consciousness is, or 2) what's actually happening in the network, how can we say? How can anyone know?

Almost certainly you're correct, there's no consciousness . But we don't know when that will change or how to tell. 2/2

Kindly refrain from the overly patronising comments. Now explain to me how you know those are a requirement of consciousness? Intuitively I think you're right, but what even is consciousness? We have no idea.

We also don't fully understand what's happening inside a neural network. 1/2

Phrenology is false so if we do it wrong then it becomes true qed

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

When/if they cross that line. Maybe they can't, maybe this architecture won't do it but another one will, maybe they already have in some strange way that we don't understand. On the last point, again, I doubt it, but I don't think we can just dismiss the idea out of hand. 2/2

Not going to argue that ChatGPT is conscious, I also doubt that it is, but I think it's worth saying that we don't have any idea what consciousness actually is or what "causes" it. The better that AI models get the blurrier this line is going to get, and I very much doubt we will actually know 1/2

I would think that Carla Denyer would be the better contact here as she's an MP, and the local MP at that, so has more influence over things.

There is a tiny, tiny silver lining here in that this means they can never possibly win. There is no world in which trans people just stop existing. A total ban on medical transition, removing our legal protections, banning us from public spaces... None of these will stop trans people existing.