Oh we're fine with visitors. As long as they fill in all the forms and pay the fees for the services we don't end up providing;)

Portugal though? ;)

Or it means that a lot of people don't give two shits about a task that they should take more seriously.

This puts a greater burden on writing than most writers are equal to.

Next they'll be saying social constructs are influenced by genetics...

Chalmers is a brilliant academic: he carefully defines his problem so that it lies outside the domain of theories, frameworks or evidence that either answer the problem or invalidate its premises. Hence, "consciousness" will remain inscrutable and there will be a viable business model around it.

Yeah but the return will be a bus replacement that's cancelled

It's almost as if some top tier civil servants and ministers are in the thrall of a handful of tech evangelists who made careers making promises they can't keep.

Except they are purchasing a product, because of the way the US university system has defined its role in society.

I read the paper. It is just a simple observational study showing that signs of distress in babies tend to cause skin temperature to raise, with no controls for other stimuli. No evidence concerning higher order cognitive processes. It's basically clickbait and journalists, as usual, can't tell.

Pffff. It was the 50s. An inevitable stiff drink and a cigarette would have cleared that right up.

LLMs are coming for us