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Re:Fitting an Elephant with Four Non-Zero Parameters by soist on Sunday July 14, 2024 @08:08PM (#40964231)
Just making sure no one is confused by common computationalist sophistry and how they attribute personal characteristics to computers and software. People can have and can create experiences, computers can only execute their programmed instructions.
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Re:Fitting an Elephant with Four Non-Zero Parameters by HeatrayEnjoyer on Sunday July 14, 2024 @09:51PM (#40964678)
On what priors are you making that statement?
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Re:Fitting an Elephant with Four Non-Zero Parameters by soist on Sunday July 14, 2024 @10:03PM (#40964725)
Rephrase your question. I don't know what you're asking.
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Re:Fitting an Elephant with Four Non-Zero Parameters by nertirs on Monday July 15, 2024 @03:28AM (#40965904)
I think he meant to ask, what is the difference between an experience and a predefined instruction?
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Re:Fitting an Elephant with Four Non-Zero Parameters by gowld on Monday July 15, 2024 @04:16PM (#40971117)
Username `soist is an abbreviation for `solipsist, then?
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