I mention software freedom whenever I can.
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We may be able to tell with great confidence what you’re thinking or feeling but not how it feels to you. There’s a subjective, 1st person experience. Something that it’s like to be you which is different from me. I can’t tell what it’s like to be someone else, or be another animal, or if it means anything to be a rock.
I see what you mean. By that definition of engineer then I would agree.
We could perhaps engineer androids that mimic us so well that to damage them would feel to us like hurting a human. I would feel compelled to take the risk of caring for an unfeeling simulation just in case they were actually able to suffer or flourish.
I thought that’s what was ment by privacy of consciousness and agree that’s how it is.
However, being unable to inspect if something has a consciousness doesn’t mean we can’t create a being which does. We would be unaware if we actually succeeded, or if it even happened unintentionally with some other goal in mind.
Why does privacy of consciousness mean one can’t engineer consciousness by mimicking states of the organ that probably has something to do with it?
What does phenomenal transparency mean?
In the good/bad old days a web page was just text and images but now a browser is a platform for running software. Each website can do useful computing for the user but the software author is in control and always tempted to make it run for them at the expenve of the user.
Crazy idea, maybe we shouldn’t use web browsers.
Did it download the original file or are there download options transcoded on the server?
Although Plex is running on your server it isn’t there to do what you want… unless Plex’s real owner permits it.
That’s how proprietary software works.
Always happy to see this quirky game get an update. I wonder how they determine what to add next.
Batteries and liquid fuel are both hazardous in terms of catching fire, do you mean something else?
I think that refers to lithium ion batteries. Some EVs use lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) which can still can catch fire but can be starved of oxygen. Sadly it is heavier but it is made without the immorally sourced cobalt.