You might consider reading Turing or Searle. They did a great job of addressing the concerns you’re trying to raise here. And rebutting the obvious ones, too.

Anyway, you’ve just shifted the definitional question from “AI” to “sentience”. Not only might that be unreasonable, because perhaps a thing can be intelligent without being sentient, it’s also no closer to a solid answer to the original issue.

Mind your pronouns, my dear. “We” don’t do that shit because we know better.

Well, that’s one advantage to coming here first. Sometimes the original article isn’t worth the time. :-)

Don’t kid yourself. Rich Democrats love dirty cops.

Not exactly. The mass pig expansion program across the country in the 1990s was spearheaded by Bill Clinton. The pro pig Dems are just as actively racist and murderous as the pro pig Reps.

Just stop enforcing the DMCA on American work. Or, how about no more US copyright law in Canada? That would be exciting.

IMO there is no definitive mainstream any more. Hasn’t been for a decade. There’s just too much music out there for you to know all the “popular” stuff.

It already is happening. Source: a person getting a visa now-ish.

Actually they ask for the last five years, deleted or not.

There is no rule against deleting accounts, my friend.

That is a fucking terrible idea. If they later find it, they’ll lock you up and maybe later throw you out. The financial risk makes no sense.

They say they will find those “with AI”. And they will, for true or for false, because they only want another weapon to use against the “undesirables”.

It was always a pipe dream, my friend. If you stop smoking, you might see reality… In other words, your only mistake was sobriety.

Right, but he can’t raise income tax very much, and he needs money to give to all the rich fuckers, so a big federal sales tax “disguised” as a tariff is a decent way to raise funds.

Elders are not the solution. Hero worship is a fatal flaw, and this author might know that, but the headline suggests otherwise.

People have said that, but I disagree. I think that fascists really are that stupid. It looks like a strategy because a lot of mainstream media has been happy to embrace the chaos, all they want is that 24-hour news cycle. But if you look at reliable political writers, people who think long-term, none of Trump’s bullshit baffles anyone.

If you think about the tariffs, he was trying to flex because he’s a narcissist, and people around him, perhaps including himself, were getting richer through insider trading. It’s a basic scam. Everyone understands it. No one is baffled.

Look, if we’re serious about having transparency and accountability in law enforcement, it’s going to take a lot of work. The starting point would be to require these officers to have their names in large text on the front and back of their shirts, like professional athletes do. They need to be named openly all the time, not just when they’re arresting someone, not just in tiny text on a badge that you can’t even see when you’re 6 ft away.

And most importantly, they need to be locked up or massively fined when they violate their own policy or people’s civil rights. When cops are not accountable for their actions, of course they’re going to behave like rat bastards.

I don’t know, I was too busy eating cats and dogs.

Wait a second. Are you saying we can hack them? This is wonderful.

There you go again, blaming the voters for the fact that Biden and Harris were shitty candidates. God forbid they could have changed their policies. Never that.

And your position looks even more messed up today. If you consider what’s happening in Palestine today. Harris wanted to take a pro-Israel stance, she did, Trump pretended that he was all about peace, we knew he was lying, but it was too late because she already threw away those votes… That’s 100% on her, we all predicted it, and she did whatever she wanted.