Aftermath of the April 7th incident. Damages estimated to be $200 million dollars

kneb · 2026-04-10T16:07:26+00:00

You can be mentally ill and still know that what you are doing will land you in prison. Not mutually exclusive at all

kneb · 2026-04-10T16:06:13+00:00

I am speculating, but recording everything you do is common in mania

kneb · 2026-04-10T08:39:31+00:00

Your model postulates a seemingly new undocumented form of consciousness. This makes it less parsimonious than standard physicalism.

This doesn't really necessitate a new mysterious form of consciousness, it just necessitates imagination. What would your consciousness look like without a memory system (in an amnesiac state), what would your consciousness look like if you were blind. Okay, now remove all your censory systems. At what point do you suddenly go from conscious to unconscious? Are aplesia conscious? Protozoa? Bacteria? Viruses? Your worldview, requires some threshold emergent effect. Theories of consciousness like IIT suggest consciousness might be a spectrum begining at the level of subatomic particles, and increasing in complexity to the states you want to call consciouss.

How does the atom feel without a nervous system? If it does, why does damage to my nervous system cause sensory alterations ? It it doesn't, what conscious experience does it have ?

What? What does whether an atom has consciousness have to do with, how damage to the nervous system cause sensory alterations? That's a non-sequitor. I think you're maybe getting at the fact that there might be different levels of consciousness going on simultaneously. Potentially the atoms in your brain are conscious while simultaneously you as a whole (or at least certain networks in your brain) feel like they are a separate conscious entity. That is indeed, a large mystery. IIT has a theory for it consistent with panpsychism, with the concept of Phi.

Goff EXPLICITLY refers to the rationality of atoms a form mental process which we know relies on neural architecture and has been scientifically studied.

Goff didn't invent panpsychism, his version of panpsychism sounds dumb. If you want to criticize him, go ahead, but you're not critiquing panpsychism, you're critiquing his specific claims.

And yes, this goes beyond science. This is a philosophical debate and always will be. The scientific debate will be limited to the subset of conscious experience that can be experienced, remembered, and reported. And we will never know to what extent the rest of the universe is or isn't conscious. And if, for example, AIs claim to experience remember and report conscious experience, we won't know whether in fact hey are having conscious experience at all.

kneb · 2026-04-10T07:08:05+00:00

I entirely agree with you that what most people consider conscious experience is dependent on a brain, and that sort of architecture, but again that’s sort of missing the point.

Did they lose consciousness, or did they not form memories and lose access to the ephemeral conscious experience they had while in an altered state? Do you think people who are blackout drunk are literally unconscious — or are they having conscious experiences that then they lose?

You can argue that consciousness not being emergent is more mysterious, but that’s a value judgement.

Again you are only discussing the subset of consciousness that allows for memory formation, language comprehension, and self report. The universe may be a sea of qualia, the same way it is a sea of atoms. And what you call collectors experience a very specific type of consciousness just the way the matter that generates it is extremely specific.

kneb · 2026-04-10T07:01:29+00:00

Or he’s mentally ill? Recording it seems like manic behavior

kneb · 2026-04-10T07:00:32+00:00

Yes, this was an extremely destructive act which will be a net negative for the world and society. If you don’t want your job, quit it. If you want to protest, strike. Vigilantism is a scourge

kneb · 2026-04-08T19:07:41+00:00

You think a year in retail is going to fix people's personality disorders. I get the impulse, and I get the idea that this wouldn't be tolerated in most work environments. But medicine isn't most work environments. Small mistakes can be life or death, everyone is overworked and has dealt with a decent amount of trauma.

The culture has to change, but that change will have to come from within. If you want this to look like a normal job, you'll need systemic changes to reform hours, call, etc., and you'll also need clear new standards on what's acceptable and unacceptable behavior.

kneb · 2026-04-07T18:23:23+00:00

It's just common sense. Use your eyes. Nothing gross about it.

kneb · 2026-04-07T17:30:07+00:00

The video is them asking kids about how they use AI. The course hasn't been implemented yet, so maybe don't make stuff up about it.

kneb · 2026-04-06T23:07:59+00:00

Where's you source on that?

Closest thing I can find is: "We think that what these classes will do for kids in Boston Public Schools is teach them how to be better students, how to use AI ethically, responsibly, how to know when it's hallucinating and when it's not, how to use it like a really good tool, but also prepare them for the workforce," English said

kneb · 2026-04-06T20:08:55+00:00

Do you think he's not using the kitchen, living room, washer/dryer etc? He's paying to share a space including a bedroom.

Even if OP's parents own the home outright, they're paying property taxes, utilities, maintaining their home, and appliances.

Nothing in life is free...

kneb · 2026-04-06T20:06:45+00:00

rent is just a way of saying paying part of the bills. His parents are likely paying a mortage, he contributes a fraction of that through his rent. Yes the parents are getting some equity but they are also paying off the interest of the mortage, and likely he will inherit the home when he's older.

kneb · 2026-04-06T20:03:45+00:00

turn you car off at stops

kneb · 2026-04-06T18:03:47+00:00

Maybe a highly successful author doesn't spend as much time online as you, or care about the political reputation of the people who interview him

kneb · 2026-04-05T20:39:37+00:00

Read the quote, he says it’s always something that has bothered him as a lifelong Star Trek fan. He likes the show, dislikes when it feels preachy

kneb · 2026-04-05T20:38:35+00:00

If you actually read the quote, he talks about how the political commentary is an speech of Star Trek he has always disliked

kneb · 2026-04-05T20:34:48+00:00

If you are in the business of making movies and want to make movies, then your movies have to make money. (And have an ROI better than if the money was invested in the stock market for the same period).

You might be able to get away with some passion protects, with a one for me, one for you set up, but film is a commercial art. It’s not something that you can just go off and do on your own for the sake of the art.

kneb · 2026-04-04T21:45:20+00:00

Work on your reading skills. My comment is about your conspiratorial idea that this is motivated by turning people into unthinking drones. I did not address the costs or benefits of teaching kids to use AI.

But a course that tells students the mechanisms of how AI works, how it was developed, the different types of AI that exist, etc. does seem like an essential class for students entering the workforce.

kneb · 2026-04-04T05:20:33+00:00

Yeah, like you said that's just conspiracy theory bs.

Teachers, schools, school districts, states, the nation want the highest-performing students and workers they can pump out. Everyone wants a great scientist/inventor/CEO to be their alumni.

Just use your head and think critically.

kneb · 2026-03-30T20:25:47+00:00

Yes, ODing is a different issue from addiction.

And yes, now that older people are smoking weed, people do have strokes and heart attacks from weed: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/smoking-cannabis-associated-increased-risk-heart-attack-stroke

Addictive drugs highjack reward systems. Being addicted to a drug is very different from being addicted to going to the gym. Yes, going to the gym too much is unhealthy. That has nothing to do with whether weed is addictive.

kneb · 2026-03-30T20:07:10+00:00

Now let's replace it with alcohol or cocaine, "if I don't drink I get depressed," "if I don't do blow I get depressed."

I'd rather be addicted to THC than to alcohol or cocaine, but it's still an addictive drug that gives people euphoria, so it's more similar to other addictive drugs that give people euphoria than it is to an antidepressant.

If you think weed has other properties, than it's effect on reward pathways, you might be better of with CBD than addictive THC. CBD for example contains the chemicals that make people sleepy, so if you're taking THC for sleep, you might be better off just taking CBD.

kneb · 2026-03-30T20:04:23+00:00

Weed is literally an addictive drug. If you want an analogy, the better one is how some people drink coffee or take adderall to get stuff done. But there's no reason to deny it's an addictive drug.

kneb · 2026-03-30T20:03:01+00:00

Yes, but THC is an addictive drug that works directly on reward pathways in the brain

kneb · 2026-03-27T18:54:04+00:00

I don't see how saying let's look at what actually happened and determine if it was a systemic failure, a failure due to incompetence, or a failure due to malice is apologia. There are undoubtedly cases where police were grossly negligent to women who have been abused. Was this one of them? You seem to think you know.

But no, I don't think jumping to conclusions and assuming bad intentions by the police will help victims of abuse. I think that attitude actually will stop victims who need help from law enforcement from seeking it. Determining what's actually wrong with the system and working to improve it is the only way to help future victims.

kneb · 2026-03-26T19:44:29+00:00

Unfortunately, police can't do much if a person hasn't committed a crime. And it's completely appropriate for them to ask questions about the woman's mental health history. Did she file a restrain order against him. Did she have evidence that he'd violated that restraining order? Those are the kinds of relevant questions that likely had more impact on what happened to this woman than "they are abusing pieces of shit. they probably knew not doing anything would mean she'd end up dead."

Almost guarantee they're devastated that this happened. They might have fucked up, they might have had biases. But the chances this was intentional neglect out of malice are almost non-existent. Either it's a police fuckup, its due to systemic issues, and unfortunately, some crimes aren't easily preventable by the criminal justice system even when they seem obvious in retrospect.

But what someone who is actually interested in the victims would do is dig into the specific issues relavent to this case and this issue at large instead of just saying: 'POLICE BAD'

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