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mastodon 4.7.2Emerit Professor of Philosophy, Hofstra University. Philosophy of mind (mental causation, free will), metaphysics (properties, abstracta), philosophy and race, ancient philosophy (Plato, Aristotle), modern (Descartes). UC Berkeley. Columbia College. #Swimming. #Sourdough. Programming (Python, various). #Brooklyn. Park Slope Food Coop. Bull boxer, deceased; terrier poodle (?) mix named Frederika Frizzle. Theater scholar adjacent.
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@jonathankoren @mhoye they’re all good algorithms, Brent
That's a helpful way to think about one of the conceptual problems: are they conscious, do they think. That is: if the answer is, do they fit in the capitalist nexus in the right way, then the answer is yes. We could call this the Altman test for thinking and consciousness.
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@dantheclamman philosopher here (I could call myself a cognitive *scientist*, but y'all would sneer). The whole institution from graduate school to professional presence to job totally works just exactly that way.
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@scottag @marcoarment I just learned about Vaultwarden this afternoon (guess why!). Does it look like a good idea to run on a local Raspberry Pi 5 (running NextCloud)?
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@kirschner With 1T Euro you could build a lot of infrastructure, subsidize a lot of free/open software projects. It would not be an easy transition.
@McWabbit Curious about what's going on. I just checked the price at Newegg of a SAMSUNG 990 EVO 1TB SSD I bought last April. It has gone up about 60%. That's huge, but it's not 400%.
I should add -- I'm certainly on board with the thought expressed here. There's SO MUCH here that is a deep problem, I'm not clear that this chip-futures-buying thing adds much.
@VCP@mastodon.social is Bain Capital a private credit outfit? (Maybe more to my puzzlement: what is the bain capital thing?)
Hi Mastodon mind: I got an email yesterday with the subject
You’re now using Gemini on your iOS device
the text is a lot of happy talk about Gemini.
I use Google Maps and Google Drive, and otherwise try not to use Google at all. I can't figure out what they are saying here -- I don't have their Gemini app installed, I have scrutinized the settings for what I do have, as far as I can tell I am *not* using Gemini.
So what the hell is going on here?
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@nextcloud@mastodon.xyz I think standard practice in big organizations is to get solutions provided by big well-known providers who wrap everything in a big blanket of comfort. IBM in the day. Adobe now. My university is a Microsoft shop.
Comfort is things like support, predicted lifetime of the systems, community of users, ease of installation, conversion, maintenance.
What happens if all your skilled people leave? Who do you call?
Pay the money make it easy.
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@Nicolaz@mastodon.sdf.org @brainwane@social.coop listens to Diamanda Galas in her car