treefrog

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Consciousness seems to arise from a need for sense of time and space. Navigation basically. Finding home, finding food, finding mates. I say this after decades of exploring mind altering substances and going on a decade of nearly daily meditation practice.

A friend of mine suggested it's just this simple and that even worms are conscious. They're aware of themselves to some degree and the when and the where. I'm sure they experience things way different than us, having different senses for assessing when and where and a different neuro structure for processing information from their bodies and the environment.

So, no point beyond consciousness being more common than I think people assume and actually not that difficult to define.

Consciousness is the sense of time and space. And most animals seem to have it. Do machines? I don't know enough about the technology to have an educated opinion.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

They're also often signed by minors who cannot be legally bound to a contract

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

OC forgot that we're the product

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I bought a $100 2023 phone and I use the headphone jack

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Same. I bet Dropbox is running damage control on it.

Article said this news already hit other social media platforms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Lol, yeah. Like that.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 11 months ago (6 children)

The reason it wasn't the moment of the crash is because it's programmed to disengage if a crash can't be avoided so that Tesla can skirt liability.

This would be like a drunk driver letting go of the wheel the moment before a crash and telling the judge, 'your honor. I wasn't driving when the car wrecked.'

I hope Tesla gets held accountable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Why have a bot just figure out what consumers want when it you can also have it do direct marketing?

This announcement wasn't for consumers, but advertisers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

They're marketing this as a personal salesbot to advertisers now. That's what changed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I hadn't considered HIPAA. IANAL either but I have taken business law 101 as well as human services classes that both covered it.

If I remember right though, HIPAA isn't a personal lawsuit. It's the feds suing corporations for violations. I can't like, personally sue the health industry for a violation (as far as I remember).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

If the original contract has provisions for changing it in this manner then it might hold up in court. But of they didn't have the foresight to include mandatory arbitration to begin with that's unlikely the lawyers who drafted it thought that far ahead.

What I'm curious about is if my brother's DNA was stolen. Do I have the right to sue for negligent handling of data that's as much his as mine?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd try to get a refund first unless you never plan to shop on Amazon again.

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