America does suck

Lmao such insights

Its interesting I didn’t see any nuance in the initial response.

But yes I don’t disagree consumers shoot themselves in the foot constantly for various reasons, mostly ignorance.

Brand loyalty, propaganda marketing, etc etc

The problem with your latter half is things like… Effective monopolies on required goods, small businesses going down because a Walmart opened up then jacked up prices, cable companies agreeing to not compete in geographical areas, regulatory capture in various industries, etc etc.

It’s not as easy as “market self corrects”

I don’t understand why you think it’d be out of the question for it to have phenomoligcal experiences, why couldn’t we build a way for it to smell if it has the same pathways to be able to interpret that? How would that be meaningfully different?

Think about hearing aides or other similar “enhancements” wherein were simply adjusting the input in a way and the brain is still able to process it.

I would agree it wouldn’t be the same as a literal human, thinking like Fallout 4 style synths, I consider them people (in universe of course lol) even if they’re not literally humans.

If you like Bethesda games, check out some of the wabbajack modlists

At what point to you would it move from simulation to essentially the same configuration just in a different container?

I still think you’re conflating the aspect of life we experience as somehow separate from the procedure our brain takes to present that to you.

I’d say mods is where the true value lies, I’ve extended my Bethesda gametime significantly because I can install modpacks and get complete overhauls in various flavors.

I know there are mods on PS/Xbox but it’s much more limited and most require payment on consoles AFAIK.

Steam frequently has deals though, look at the price history on fallout 4 (don’t have one for anniversary upgrade unfortunately)

It has dropped to below $10 8 times in the past year alone

Ah yes, the classic blame consumers for big business decisions.

Could push for government regulation/oversight or even developmental efforts to relieve the supply constraints.

Nah consumer bad 😠

I literally thought it was Epstein on first look

“If you captured and simulated every neuron in the human brain, you’d be left with a feedforward process simulating a particular neural state of a particular person. No feeling, no reflection, no introspection, no semantic meaning. Just a neat toy.”

Seems to me you think there’s something special about humans, I don’t believe there’s any proof to that.

Yes its orders of magnitude more complex then a fly brain, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to simulate.

There’s no proof to a soul, our whole existence is our meat which evolved naturally over extreme timescales via random forces and natural selection, I see no reason to believe we could not do the same with our intelligence in a much shorter period of time comparatively.

Have you tried being born rich instead?

I see literally one downvoted comment

I haven’t seen that at all

Passkeys are actually goated tho

Lmao I love this

I do agree Chrome was the better browser, hell I switched to it primarily after a few years because of how much faster it was.

I don’t really think that’s the case anymore though, Chrome has been enshittifying for years now, and in my experience, they’re pretty on-par, except of course I can use extensions without the impending doom spectre on Firefox and on mobile.

It definitely happens on my instance, regardless of where the post’s instance is in summit.

Always? Firefox existed before Chrome

My parents were firmly middle class, divorced though.

My mom would absolutely do something like this to be able to buy herself something nice instead.