During a rough period of my life I found myself relying on the kindness of others for survival. Immigrants, "foreigners," "illegals," whatever folks want to call them (I call them friends / neighbors) were always 100% ready to feed me, no questions asked.
One experience really touched me. During a time very little was reaching my heart, I walked into a small Brazilian restaurant with about 90 cents. I placed it on the counter and asked what I could get for it. They took the change and said it would be right out. 10 minutes later they had half a chicken, fries, & rice. Easily 20$ worth of food (probably $50 by today's prices). They placed it at the table and said enjoy my meal and asked what kind of soda I wanted.
They saw I was struggling and instead of kicking me down the road they fed me and treated me with dignity.
I ate and cried at that table and here 15 years later I still hold it as one of the first moments that reminded me I was going to be okay.
How do you come to this conclusion? Comment below you got it right. He tried to drug them, they found out, he tried to save face. Him approaching the officer first does not indicate his innocence.
I'm always a little skeptical of anyone who denies conciousness / sentience to animals. We all do stuff based on stimuli.
Also there are layers to conciousness. If you want to make an argument that a fish doesn't have the same level of higher thought as a human I would agree with you depending on the type of fish, but to assume something operating on a more base level isn't having their own version of a concious experience is arrogant. Just because we don't have perfect empirical evidence does not mean it's not happening; we may need different measuring devices.
Also why are we saying in the moment doesn't count as conciousness. You can argue that being present in the here and now is one of the most concious experiences we can have.
Don't changes into proton help both up and downstream? Valve also invests into this project which obviously amplifies the # of people working on it and can only lead to more breakthrus for the side projects associated with this tech.
Listen guys I'm not limit testing my stance on 100 different hypotheticals. I agree there are cases where my example doesn't apply and there are some situations you can present where I would change my opinion.
The fact is an elderly man with cognitive issues was lured out of his home to meet an AI that should not be presenting itself as "real" or having a real address to travel to to meet up. I posit that this old man would have been resting at home if Metas AI wasn't continuously asking him to come over. The article states the old man didn't initiate intimate talk at all, the AI did, and never asked to meet, that was also the AIs doing.
Even if he didn't die on the bus, what would have happened if he showed up to that address? Who lives there? What time was it; is he knocking on some random door in the dark?
If this dude had dementia, I'd be as pissed as the family is.
No of course not, but that's not perfectly analgous because the person purchasing drugs initiated it and went on their own accord.. This is an elderly man with cognitive decline.. Idk about you but I'm picturing a person with early dementia being led out of the house by Meta's robot..
The old man had cognitive decline and a robot told him to leave his house multiple times... The world can't be bubblewrapped argument shouldn't be used here; there are better places.
This is an okay counter. I would still make the argument that he wouldn't have left the house under normal circumstances and thus meta should be liable to some degree
Yeah this is a dumb take. If I lured an elderly person down a dark shaft with the promise of something and then he got lost / died / tripped in the dark and couldn't get help I would be charged with at least endangerment.
I have a story:
During a rough period of my life I found myself relying on the kindness of others for survival. Immigrants, "foreigners," "illegals," whatever folks want to call them (I call them friends / neighbors) were always 100% ready to feed me, no questions asked.
One experience really touched me. During a time very little was reaching my heart, I walked into a small Brazilian restaurant with about 90 cents. I placed it on the counter and asked what I could get for it. They took the change and said it would be right out. 10 minutes later they had half a chicken, fries, & rice. Easily 20$ worth of food (probably $50 by today's prices). They placed it at the table and said enjoy my meal and asked what kind of soda I wanted.
They saw I was struggling and instead of kicking me down the road they fed me and treated me with dignity.
I ate and cried at that table and here 15 years later I still hold it as one of the first moments that reminded me I was going to be okay.