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[–] Miller@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The forced degradation of words is unhelpful, a word will still be needed to differentiate the unparalleled state of mind from the emerging properties of complex systems. Concepts like consciousness and God are often commandeered to peddle tenuous ideas to the great unwashed and it is ultimately unsustainable. And while we are about it computational modelling is a license to find what you want to find.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

The forced degradation of words is unhelpful

Then stop doing it...

You're trying to make people who use the word correctly stop, because you never knew what it meant.

And of fucking course youre plugging chat it's now.