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adardis@mstdn.social

<p>Emerit 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. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Swimming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Swimming</span></a>. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Sourdough" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sourdough</span></a>. Programming (Python, various). <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Brooklyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Brooklyn</span></a>. Park Slope Food Coop. Bull boxer, deceased; terrier poodle (?) mix named Frederika Frizzle. Theater scholar adjacent.</p>

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    @ai6yr @grumble209 @mdc they’re great

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    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&amp;#39;t figure out what they are saying here -- I don&amp;#39;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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    @VCP is Bain Capital a private credit outfit? (Maybe more to my puzzlement: what is the bain capital thing?)

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    That&amp;#39;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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    @McWabbit Curious about what&#39;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&#39;s huge, but it&#39;s not 400%. I should add -- I&#39;m certainly on board with the thought expressed here. There&#39;s SO MUCH here that is a deep problem, I&#39;m not clear that this chip-futures-buying thing adds much.

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    @jonathankoren @mhoye they’re all good algorithms, Brent

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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.