thewillowcat

> QRI is a non-profit building a new science of consciousness. Its central bet is that: Consciousness is a relatively simple property of our universe — simple enough for evolution to discover it. Consciousness has useful computational properties — otherwise evolution would not have come to rely on it.

My brother, that is philosophical position, not a "bet".

Restricting attention to the Windows ecosystem in the 90s almost proves the point. The BSOD was legendary. It was notoriously buggy compared to Solaris, NeXT, and Apple. Those platforms had their problems, but they proved you could do a lot better than Windows for reliability.

Since there are no colonies involved, a better characterization would be: Free market capitalism under the rules-based order established by the US and its allies after the end of World War II. You could reasonably criticize that system, and many have, but it is not colonialism, except in the sense that colonialism is now used as a broad term for anything that feels exploitative.

Indeed, those things were stated, but they would seem to be assertions and interpretations rather than anything established by the work at hand.

And it is in my interest to charge my employer as much as they will pay for my work, regardless of whether or not I would have done it for less. In many cases, I would have, but I still negotiated for more.

There are many problems with modern capitalism and the political economy of the world. If you have ideas about how we can build a better system, I genuinely wish you luck.

> Their local environments are being destroyed, city and state governance corrupted, regular jobs muscled out, electricity used exorbitantly, psyches damaged, and so much more all in the name of extracting low-cost labor from the less privileged — and thus readily exploited — halfway across the globe, but sure, definitely not colonialism.

To the extent these claims are true (and I'm sure that varies by location), those are the primary problems, not the fact that people are being offered jobs they seem to prefer to other jobs.

You're telling me they're recruiting these workers just by offering them attractive wages?!?! Disgusting.

I would simply write code that doesn't have vulnerabilities in the first place.

This is what computers are for.

I agree. It's one thing to think her action was riskier than you would like for your own child. It's another to think it should be a crime.

This was my reaction exactly. I was surprised by the diagram of a "normal" linked list.

Even if we concede that it is irresponsible, which would very much depend on the individual child, it should not be a crime.

It happened because a neighbor was so disturbed by a child walking alone to report it, the police thought it was serious enough to refer for prosecution, and a prosecutor decided it needed to be charged using their office's limited resources. All insane.

The part that really gets to me is that the neighbor was so "concerned" about the child's safety that they called the police, but for some reason, in their urgent concern, they didn't take the simple step of approaching and talking to the child to see where they were going or if a parent knew where they were.