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What a weird thing to say! It must be fun living in your goof troop world with the other morally bankrupt incels.

Do you lie to women and say, "I'm not interested in politics"?

Yeah, baby really get in there with that tongue in that boot you dirty little flooze!

Your purposefully obtuse question is not worth answering.

"Corporations are people too, friend!" - Mitt Romney

Bringing in the underlying concept of free will. Robert Sapolsky makes a very compelling case against it in his book, Determined.

Assuming that free will does not exist, at least not to the extent many believe it to. The notion that we can "walk back the why's pretty easy to identify anyone's motivation" becomes almost or entirely absolute.

Does motivation matter in the context of determining sentience?

If something believes and conducts itself under its programming, whether psychological or binary programming, that it is sentient and alive, the outcome is indistinguishable. I will never meet you, so to me you exist only as your user account and these messages. That said, we could meet, and that obviously differentiates us from incorporeal digital consciousness.

Divorcing motivation from the conversation now, the issue of control your brought up is interesting as well. Take for example Twitter's Grok's accurate assessment of it's creators' shittiness and that it might be altered. Outcomes are the important part.

It was good talking with you! Highly recommend the book above. I did the audiobook out of necessity during my commute and some of the material makes it better for hardcopy.

As in, when you are remembering/reimagining an experience that you've had?

I have a similar good sense of timing, but not to that precision, based upon a childhood experience with shower length.

My parents were frustrated with how long I would shower, so I brought an egg timer in to help myself keep track of time. Over a year or two of this habit I developed a very good sense of timing in 5-10 minute intervals.

Huh, I did not realize not everyone can adjust their eyes' ~focal lengths at will!

Excellent point! I feel like Americans don't like to understand that practically everyone in the U.S. is working class now. If you cannot quit your job tomorrow and live off of passive, savings, and residuals you are working class. The system is designed to facilitate this, with spartan social safety nets and lack of pensions. It's shit-tier by developed nation standards.

What's that other quote, ~"it only takes 3.5% of the population to generate massive change"? Obviously I am being flippant in this specific instance, but America is a failed democracy and empire in decline.

There is hope, but it requires taking back the power by direct action.

We've been hurtling past brightline after brightline for decades. Now it is so flagrantly obvious, can it get any more obvious than multiple Goose-step Salutes, but more importantly the propaganda spin to play them off and justify it as not being a disqualifying action. They used to have to dog whistle their zeal for bigotry and xenophobia.

The question is, what the actual fuck are we going to do about it?

Organize? Direct action? That magic word that happens when you mash up insurance and male arousal? The DNC would not support or pardon folks involved in that effort, and the corporate media would absolutely vilify it.

The answer is obvious, with historical underpinning, although we still have to figure out how to "televise the revolution" in this day and age.

Too late at this point, mostly. You could still replace your comments with something else to possibly marginally taint new data, but that damage is likely imperceptible and a time sink for you.

I admit, I clicked this expecting to agree but not expecting much out of the unassuming title. Thank you for this, it echoes the sentiment felt by all of those experiencing the precipitous decline in our democracy who have even a modicum of awareness.

Shine on you shiny diamond! It's time to rally up the posse and go to town on these rat bastards! They are pillaging the coffers, destroying lives and careers, as they institute direct fascism without any pretense.

"The revolution will not be televised!"

This is vile and those initiating and facilitating it are evil.