Open post Owl Branch @OwlOnABicycle@mastodon.world · 6mo ago Replying to @tambourineman@mastodon.cloud <p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs" class="u-url mention">@<span>thomasfuchs</span></a></span> We don't know what makes one wake up in the morning and decide to climb a mountain or quit their job.<br />It may be some completely different process or there might be something to this pattern-matching statistical thing.<br />Do ants have agency? Do ant colonies? </p><p>We definitively must regulate the shit out of these big techs.<br />But saying that X does not do Y when both are poorly understood and defined is not the way, IMO.</p> @tambourineman@mastodon.cloud We obviously know that “X does not do Y” when it’s a machine, and we know exactly how it was programmed, and we know exactly what it’s doing. Everything about it is understood.