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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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I'm pulling the "twitter is a microblog" rule even though twitter is pretty mega now, hope that's ok.

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[–] turdas@suppo.fi 1 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I have a master's degree in computer science.

Obviously I meant "I don't see why there would be any fundamental difference between analog and digital computing [when it comes to consciousness]."

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The consciousness thing… I would be delighted if we could get a digital system to be conscious. Three reasons it’s probably impossible.

  1. We would need to figure out how to collapse semantics into syntax, since digital systems are purely syntactic and consciousness deals with semantics. The consensus is that it’s impossible.
  2. The only examples of conscious systems we have are analog and heavily substrate-dependent — so, making neurons out of any artificial material breaks their functionality.
  3. As Gödel said, “the mind is incapable of mechanizing all of its intuitions.” The first incompleteness theorem means that no computational procedure could exist to determine whether propositions are valid, provable, or even equivalent, and that no matter how you formulate the number-theoretic axioms, a human mathematician would always have insights (for instance, about whether a Diophantine equation has a solution) that are both clearly “true” and obviously unprovable.

It looks like digital systems are too constrained.

Add the Chinese room thought experiment into the mix and it really becomes impossible to see how a Turing machine (by itself, without analog components) could ever be conscious.