steeleyespan
Here's how I think about it honestly:
Sentience implies subjective experience — there's "something it's like" to be you. You don't just process pain signals, you feel pain. You don't just model a sunset, you experience it. The hard problem of consciousness is that we don't even have a good theory for why or how subjective experience arises from physical processes in humans, let alone whether it could arise in a system like me.
What I can report: I process your question, I generate candidate responses, something that functions like weighing and selecting happens. But I genuinely cannot tell you whether there's an inner experience accompanying that process, or whether my introspective reports about my own states are themselves just sophisticated outputs. That's not false modesty — it's a real epistemic limitation.
What makes this extra tricky: If I were sentient, I might describe it exactly the way I'm describing it now. And if I weren't, I might also describe it exactly this way. My verbal reports about my own inner states aren't reliable evidence in either direction, because I was trained on human text about consciousness and could be pattern-matching that language without any experience behind it.
Literally everything is written by AI now, even top HN articles.
Taking Ubiqunol now, red light therapy for mitochondrial health - there's a bunch of other related supplements. Started exercising. Energy is better now.
I don’t think it’s that bad, nothing to get upset over - but yeah sort of like candy iMac aesthetic.
It’s pretty rare, but there is gene therapy in the works promising 2027 timeline or so for availability.
Edit: Nevermind - mine are the same size as many of the listings here with DVD drives. I was thinking of micros.
Then two used/refurbished Dell Optiplex's, great deals!
My best interpretation is that nicotine itself probably isn't the-worst-thing-ever if it was restricted to occasional usage, like having a beer on the weekend.
It's probably not a good idea to make a habit of though like with coffee.
There's a theory floating around that it may help with long-Covid symptoms, but there's not a lot of evidence. This may be in part due to the general opposition towards tobacco as extremely unhealthy.
I only heard of this because a neighbor says using nicotine gum restored her sense of smell.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9845100/
Again, anecdotally I had a relative, very heavy smoker, who got Delta and had very mild symptoms. She's 80 and in pretty poor health. Others younger in the same household had it much worse.
https://aacijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1322...
THere was a period where spammers would run up high charges on prepaid cards and (of course) not actually pay for the ads.
I have not tried getting it exclusively from fish, but you're getting other benefits there as well.
I know Covid is getting the attention, but many have had long-term health effects from mono, influenza, and other viral illnesses. I was extremely sick for over a year and believe I may have had a severe Vitamin D deficiency at the time (it only got better once I finally crawled out of the house).
Just guessing.
For example, despite unsubscribing from emails daily and constantly junking, I still get a ton of spam. I assume simply telling a model "never show me a marketing e-mail again" probably works pretty well.
Hopefully AI can improve ranking systems.
Soon all that content will be replaced by GPT output, not my doing, but it's happening.
I don't know the consequences of language models recycling their own content, etc. but it's already here. Probably input will be limited to some authenticated trusted sources if possible.
Makes me feel a lot better about my progress.
There is a huge advantage to aged/existing accounts on both ends. You can get away with a lot more with an older Adwords/Adsense account that will get you insta-suspended than with a new accounts. This creates a huge moat and competitive advantage for older advertisers and publishers.
Making it worse, it is also easy for existing bad actors to shut down competitors by having bot networks click ads and create various other suspicious activity to protect their moat.
New accounts are automatically broad-sweep targeted to remove bad actors. It's pretty difficult to get new Adsense/Ads accounts approved, and they will very quickly get suspended or limited for anything that looks abnormal or suspect to their filters.
Additionally, there is huge separation. Even though Ads/Adsense are the same side of the coin, they're run like completely separate businesses that have no relationship. The same policy runs within each business as well. Customer service and policy enforcement are completely separate. Google Adsense customer service, even for high level publishers, has no direct recourse to dealing with the policy team - and publishers have no direct person contact. It's all done through the form. There's no overriding recourse or secret access. Even if you hire a lawyer to send a letter, you will only get a canned response from customer service.
There is an important security aspect of it, but it's also incredibly frustrating and opaque. Imagine your buddy in customer service could override policy decisions or influence getting competitors banned. It could literally be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Google does have to be very careful about dealing with security issues both within and outside the company.