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HauntedCupcake

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  • Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient

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  • No papers that are actually concrete. Most of it is just speculation.

    I'm not a scientist, and for me personally it's enough to make me spend a bit longer thinking before immediately dismissing all insects as mindless automatons. Most probably are simple biological machines. Jumping spiders are however massive outliers in terms of insect intelligence, and a cursory Google search will provide a wealth of evidence for it.

    I personally would also go as far as believing that they dream. I just don't believe there's a reasonable explanation for the REM like state other than some form of dreaming, even if rudimentary.

    I'm not going to state that jumping spiders are fully conscious as 100% fact, there's not enough proof for that. But they do have a proven ability to learn, and an ability to make somewhat complex plans. And all I'm trying to say is that we need more research before dismissing them so certainly.

  • Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient

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  • Or find a balance and don't be edgy for the sake of pissing off vegans

  • Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient

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  • Ants are also fairly well documented to be on the level of sophisticated biological robots. Death spirals/ant mills are a common occurrence because of this. There are arguments for some insects but ants are not one of them

  • Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient

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  • I think it's fair to assume they experience a "lesser" level of sentience. People just assume it's a lot more lesser than it is

  • Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient

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  • Even that's a bit more complex, without predators many species massively overbreed, leading to mass starvation

  • Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient

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  • Jumping spiders show some level of consciousness. They're intelligent predators that heavily use their sight to identify prey. They can recognise different prey types, learn their behaviours and adjust hunting strategies accordingly. A good example is how they are able to recognise when certain prey is acting odd, deduce it's injured and drop their stealthy approach for a more direct one. They're also capable of remembering their environment and using indirect and often complex paths to sneak up on prey.

    Scientists have even observed them "dreaming", which is likely when they do the information processing required for such comparatively complex behaviours https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/jumping-spiders-dream-rem-sleep-study-suggests

  • Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient

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  • Yeah, leaving it at don't casually throw away stuff that cost a plant or animal life would have been fine 😂

  • consider the implications for a post scarcity future

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  • Thank you, it's very valuable to correct that misinformation.

    It seems like an easy mistake to make as the original post being replied to is framing it explicitly in terms of economics.

    It's just a bit of shitshow of weird communication. How hard would a tweet like "A problem with solar panels is that they produce too much electricity during the middle of the day, putting strain on the grid and requiring increased power consumption".

    That's not as sensationalist but I'm also not a headline writer. It just seems like this shitty piece of journalistic malpractice was made to stir up outrage

  • What is the scariest/creepiest theory you know about?

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  • Thank you 😁

  • What is the scariest/creepiest theory you know about?

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  • That's really fucking interesting. Please could you point me in the right direction to research more?

  • Questions

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  • "China and India are prejudiced based on race, why do we keep calling prejudice based on race here racist?! Checkmate feminazis!" 🤣

  • Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

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  • The TV itself is overlaying ads onto content supplied via HDMI. This includes BluRay players and Nvidia Shields.

    I don't think there was anything mentioning content detection of BluRays to stop playing the ads

  • To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord?

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  • The UK has some of the worst housing issues in Europe, yet the amount of houses (dwellings) per person has slightly increased since 2001

    21,210,000÷59,113,0000=0.35 Houses per person in 2001

    24,930,000÷67,350,695=0.37 Houses per person in 2021

    Yet rents and house prices have absolutely skyrocketed. Supply exceeds demand, it's just greed, long term empty investment properties and government inaction.

    Sources https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwelling-stock-estimates-in-england-2022/dwelling-stock-estimates-england-31-march-2022 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/articles/overviewoftheukpopulation/2020#the-uks-population-continues-to-grow-but-at-a-slower-rate-than-previously

  • I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.

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  • So that works out to £150 per Megabyte?! Holy fuck that's a scam. With average webpage size being ~2MB that's £300 a page

  • Exxon-Mobil CEO flips from "it's too soon to act on climate" to "it's too late" as a means of discouraging decarbonization

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  • Hey hey, slow down. There's a healthy middle ground. We could waterboard him whilst he's in the guillotine, then when he's begging for air we release him head first

  • Next-gen optical disk can store over 14,000 4k movies

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  • Underwater internet cables in Red Sea reportedly damaged

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  • It's more expensive, especially in super deep water

  • Computers make mistakes and AI will make things worse — the law must recognize that

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  • The "AI" that I think is being referenced is one that instructs officers to more heavily patrol certain areas based on crime statistics. As racist officers often patrol black neighbourhoods more heavily, the crime statistics are higher (more crimes caught and reported as more eyes are there). This leads to a feedback loop where the AI looks at the crime stats for certain areas, picks out the black populated ones, then further increases patrols there.

    In the above case, any details about the people aren't needed, only location, time, and the severity of the crime. The AI is still being racist despite race not being in the dataset

  • Afghan schoolgirls are finishing sixth grade in tears. Under Taliban rule, their education is over

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  • I cannot tell if this argument is for, against, or just dumb