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  • wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldwhy is lemmy so anticatholic?
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    18 days ago

    Religion is a political tool made to opress the masses. Catholicism is particularly harmful for sanctifying asceticism.

    They sell this backward idea where suffering and misery is glorified while engaging in pleasure, principally sexual please, is seen as sinful and impure.

    It keeps people from raising against their masters and constantly feeling guilty about themselves for craving sexual satisfaction.














  • Basically this part

    "If anyone says that they know for sure that LLMs or future AI systems couldn’t possibly be conscious, it’s more likely to be an indicator of their own dogmatism than a reflection of the current state of scientific and philosophical opinion,” he said.

    Current AI systems are unlikely to be conscious, said Jeff Sebo, the director of the Center for Mind, Ethics and Policy at New York University, but “Dawkins is right to ask about AI consciousness with an open mind and I also think that the attribution of consciousness to AI systems will become more plausible over time”.

    tl;dr it is unlikely but not impossible and I don’t think we would ever be able to reliably tell.