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No. "Impossible" is an absolute statement, whereas "extremely unlikely" leaves a non-zero chance for the unlikely thing to actually happen.

It's not impossible but it's extremely unlikely.

If you go by a layman's definition of the term, then maybe so, but the way people who actually study this stuff define consciousness is that it's the fact of subjective experience - that it's like something to be.

Without consciousness there's no place for any pleasant or unpleasant experiences to arise at all. It's kind of like saying you don't need water to have waves. No, you do. Water is where those waves appear.

And what photo they're using. Most news outlets use unflattering pictures of the people they don't like.

That's why I don't immediately judge people when they say something I disagree with. I want to know how they arrived at that conclusion. Their reasoning might be solid - just shaped by different life experiences and beliefs that led them to a different view. And that's okay.

I can still see them as an intellectual, trustworthy person whose opinions matter to me, because I trust they're capable of independent reasoning.

It works both ways too. Someone agreeing with me means next to nothing if it's just an adopted view they accepted as fact without ever really thinking it through themselves. The "stamp of approval" from people like that is basically worthless.

I doubt it's like anything to be a headless chicken. Whatever little consciousness there may have been probably shut off the moment the neck was severed.

It's just a single user doing that. Block and move on.

Probably didn't read it because it was clearly low-quality slop - not because the final output was written by AI.

People don't mind AI-generated content when they don't detect it as such. It's the low-effort garbage they don't want to deal with.

Nobody has a perfect radar for AI content. This is just the good old toupee fallacy in action: "All toupees look terrible because I've never seen a good one" - except the good ones are the ones you never clocked as toupees.

Mopeds used to have pedals as well. The term comes from Swedish words motor and pedaler

eBikes requiring pedaling is mostly just a software limitation - not a hardware one. I can't quite see how it stops being an eBike after you disable this limitation.