Schroedingers_Cat
mastodon 4.7.3Druidic neo-pagan (maybe), Christian, Quaker, software developer, anarchist, Green, and many other things I am not very good at.
He/Him. Also respond to it/Oi/Shut up you idiot.
#Nobridge #Nothreads #Nofascists
Header image: Seascape sunset.
Avatar: A cat above a message that says "Schroedingers cat is " and then an image with the words "alive" and "dead" combined.
There is a question - or rather three questions. They come out of the growth of AI. And I don't expect answers, I just think we should ask them.
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What is intelligence? How would we know if software is intelligent? Turing Test is (of course) obsolete. So how do we check it now?
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What is sentience? Again, how would we know if an AI (a real one) was sentient?
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What is a spiritual being - a soul, or whatever we call it? How would we know if a non-human sentient being has a soul?
Cats are amazing. They can be gorgeous bundles of lovely soft furriness, and then suddenly turn into an explosion of razor blades.
#WritersCoffeeClub July 23: "How much erotic content can a work have without being considered erotica?"
Some of this is about intent. Is the intent of the work to be erotic, sexually exciting - really, do you want people to have a wank over it?
If so, probably erotic. If not, they your focus should not be on the erotic nature of the erotic moments - it should be on a story.
As a general rule, I think, the main purpose of your writing should be clear to you. For mine, it is to talk about circumcision, or powerful anti-beauty people, or philosophical exploration.
Oh look, another police officer who was a KNOWN RAPIST but stayed in his job. Lucky him.
