Sentience is the ability to perceive your surroundings using your senses. What cows (probably) haven’t achieved is sapience, roughly the ability to think about more than your immediate sensual impressions, in the abstract. Modern humans have decided they are extra sapient, hence “homo sapiens sapiens” whereas Neanderthals are “homo sapiens neanderthalensis”.

Can’t have shit in Wolfsburg.

In searching for something resembling logic in this, one might consider what the common factor is in these two and then one might want to stop considering.

How do you know you’re not imagining anything? What clues are you using to come to that conclusion?

Actual person, he’s harmless.

If we’re strictly talking about LLMs: Certain accessibility services - MAYBE. Writing closed captions / transcription for the most part requires little “human” touch. If we ASSUME that AI will be able to it reliably one day - because it really can’t yet - that’s one thing that would benefit society.

Image descriptions is another thing I might see done by AI one day but that still requires an understanding of what’s actually important about the image.

You know those “volume up” warnings? They exist because people usually have their devices on mute. Because of ads.

such rules were becoming redundant in a world where rogue states broke them with impunity and allies did not enforce them.

Well then fucking enforce them, you fucking Pimmel!

Confusing as fuck is what it would be. What if my mum and the friend I hung out with for four months on student exchange and my favourite primary school teacher all meet me at the same time? They don’t know of each other’s existence and they know wildly different me’s. Which me would I be? Do I notice myself oscillating between personalities and bodies?

What does “see” mean? What does that entail? Can I look at them in a zoo?

Ze German nation can no longer afford zis Lifestyle-Nichtpimmeling. Everybody vill need to pimmel 120 hours a week at least and until age 85 if vee vant to preserve our prosperity.

UK: hey, could people who use VPNs please tell us who they are exactly so we know they’re not circumventing this other law? … No? Because excellent reasons? … Oh…

Merz: vee don’t like not knowing ze name of ze person who is calling us 1 Pimmel. it is vital vee know vat everybody is doing at all times on zis new sing, zis new land vee haff just discovered. because reasons.

German and paywall. You may want to find a source that is more easily accessible.

I’m not saying it’s forever impossible, I’m saying I currently don’t trust these technologies to operate autonomously in a context where lives are at potential risk and they’ll need to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that they can do so reliably before I start trusting.

That’s a different type of platform though. Upscrolled = insta, Loops = tiktok.

It hasn’t yet been used without people around who can stop the process if it goes wrong.

I do not know that. I’d also assume the technology to close a door on a car to work very differently from that on a house because a door on a house that may not be closed properly is far less dangerous than one on a car. Also, yes, I don’t trust that 2 ton vehicle either if it claims to be autonomous.

Call me a cynical luddite but somehow I don’t trust today’s autonomous car technology to be reliable and fool-proof enough for that mechanism not to fail catastrophically and randomly because it’s raining or someone on the other side of the street made a sudden movement or Mercury is in retrograde or the company’s stock market just dropped 592 points because investors are furious after realising they wasted money on a backup or it’s Tuesday.

Giving them the ability to close their own doors just screams “kid’s arm smashed in automatic car door failure”.

“Don’t use X” always means “it’s okay to use X if there are no alternatives but do look for alternatives”. Unless X is X. Then don’t use X.