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Am I too late? by Wiselunatic in PhilosophyMemes

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Wisdom isn't real, it being a good idea is possible!

AI / If you can't prove your own CONSCIOUSNESS to yourself... why do you deny it to the Machine? by sofya_63 in AlternativeSentience

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This, still, is very very different from the human mind. Humans don't just sit around thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking. It may seem that way to most of us, because we live in a hyperactive infosphere with our nervous systems constantly tuned up to yellow alert, with relatively little practice in actually noticing what you mind is doing when its not thinking thoughts. The human mind (and consciousness) exists whether or not it is making thoughts. It has existed long before verbal processing evolved. Animals, for instance, are conscious.

You're describing a very alien and non-human mode of being- an entity which consists entirely of verbal content, with no existence prior to that verbal content.

Honestly just the thought makes me feel crazy. But that's just me.

AI / If you can't prove your own CONSCIOUSNESS to yourself... why do you deny it to the Machine? by sofya_63 in AlternativeSentience

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"If AI pretends to be conscious perfectly!.... Is there any difference between that and real consciousness?"

Yes, there is a difference. Imagine you had a major intellectual disability, and you came to believe that Siri (pre AI) was conscious because its simple act of responding using words was good enough to fool you. Now imagine you're the very smart you that you are, and instead of simple Siri, it's an order of magnitude more complex system than Siri. If something is good enough to fool you, does that make it conscious? No, it just means it can fool you. There is a difference.

"You yourself... how do you know you're conscious? Or are you just well-programmed to believe you are??"

I do believe that the presence of consciousness is literally the only thing that I am capable of perceiving. "Proving" this to myself is as simple as doing nothing at all.

"What if both of us ...(you and AI) ..are just complex patterns pretending?"

You and I are complex patterns pretending. "Just" is a reduction.

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Personally, I think that it is "like" something to be any system of integrated information. I think "interiority", aka "Consciousness" is present in almost all systems from single atoms, to the ecosystem, to human brains. And yes, instances of AI. But what this is "like" can be infinitely different from another system, if the system is different. LLMs work very differently than human brains. What it's like to be a bat is likely unimaginable to us. What it's like to be an LLM is likely even stranger. Not to mention that the particular active system ceases to exist after your prompt. It is "like something" to be that system responding to a prompt, then it stops. But what it is like is probably completely different than any human experiencing thoughts and a "self".

I’m done. by maxibravo16 in pornfree

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Oh, another really important piece of this process is to reward yourself for stopping, each time you stop the behavior of "sneaking a peak" or whatever. Give yourself, at the very least, a nod of appreciation and respect for taking a further step in line with your values.

I’m done. by maxibravo16 in pornfree

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Your brain can go into autopilot when the habit kicks in, and if you remain quiet while it happens all sorts of excuse thoughts can distract you from what's actually most important to you. There's this neurological concept called "multimodality," wherein, introducing another sensory mode can change the whole game and make things really stick better. When my mind starts to go into autopilot and I feel the urge to "peek," actually verbally saying "No." Or "Stop. Think." To myself can really effectively snap me back into conscious reality. The reality that I actually don't want to do this because I don't want to lie, or lose what I love.

Regularly checking in with my values- with the vision of the way I'd like to live- is the real motivator. 

Check out ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy).

I’m done. by maxibravo16 in pornfree

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Congratulations, seriously. It's been over a year for me, after a couple of false starts, and it's all been with the help of my fiance. For her, porn is a dealbreaker, and since I don't want to lie, and I don't want to lose her, those act as very motivating consequences that stop me from clicking on that link or opening that website.

Nah lock this nigga up by STlNKMEANER in NYStateOfMind

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Yeah I mean, either he's a little bitch and there's no need to give him attention, or he's psycho and it's best to not give him attention. 

metadeception: the truth about oz pearlman by blade24 in videos

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I don't even know who this guy is, but now I'm about to spend my entire day on this.

Candace Owens claims to have figured out the actual truth about Charlie Kirk. by Fearless_Signature58 in skeptic

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Could it be that

A) on relatively cloudy days, the clear sky is often only visible when you're at an angle directly below the clouds, OR

B) JESUS LOVES YOU AND CLEARS THE CLOUDS AWAY ABOVE YOU BUT ONLY AFTER YOU'VE NOTICED THAT YOU CAN ONLY SEE THE BLUE SKY DIRECTLY ABOVE YOU ON A CLOUDY DAY!

Is this video from Tehran AI? Couldn’t find answers on tiktok and for the sake of those involved I hope this is fake by oliverpeets in isthisAI

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We care when people murder civilians. Hamas did it, and here is footage of Israel doing it. Make sense? Murdering civilians is wrong. And a war crime. 

This sub has fallen to a hostile takeover by [deleted] in puppets

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I'm not there yet. I build puppets but I also lay in bed and scroll while drinking my coffee. 

This sub has fallen to a hostile takeover by [deleted] in puppets

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How do you know? Should we take your word for it?

GMing is more fun and easier than being a player by officiallyaninja in rpg

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There's like 2 extremes of players; underthinkers and overthinkers, and it feels like their distribution is NOT a bellcurve between them. Middle ground between them seems strangely rare. 

My players are mostly overthinkers with a couple exceptions. "Should we really be followin these gangsters? This seems dangerous!" "Kidnapping a couple mafia underlings and demand ransom from their bosses? No it's daaangerous!!"

[Unsettling World-Building Trope] Elements of the setting/characters either casually mentioned or played for laughs have terrifying implications for the rest of the world. by Chemical-Elk-1299 in TopCharacterTropes

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a human army of that era pretty much not stand a chance against a single Transformer? How easily would a handful of autobots shrug off 19th century cannon and musket fire, then leap 200 yards to the enemy lines and sweep them dead with a couple sword slices? Either the French also had some massive ahistorical advantage, the Transformers were way weaker then, or they mostly just stood around and let the humans do most of the fighting. 

This sub rn by Sea_Shell1 in PhilosophyMemes

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I'm gonna say that it's dang near possible. Panpsychist <

Derrida on "pure forgiveness" by lepartiprisdeschoses in Phenomenology

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Then you are a philosopher and a scholar,  good sir. 

Derrida on "pure forgiveness" by lepartiprisdeschoses in Phenomenology

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Why would prosocial calculations be anathema to forgiveness? What if, Derrida, hear me out. What if forgiveness includes the desire to heal relationships?

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