imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care

there are 1 trillion people in the notes of this post saying "yeah! i mean i hate kids but they should have rights!" you hate kids? you mean you hate all members of an oppressed group solely for their membership in this group? right. why do you hate them? because they can't take care of themselves and need help? because they don't understand social norms and can be "annoying" and disrespect boundaries as a result? because they can be messy? because they don't understand things in the same way as you do? that's awesome. how do you feel about disabled people btw

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I hate being sick so much. Can Claude please invent a cure for the common cold already.

critical support to humans calling dogs and cats their "furbabies" its directionally an improvement compared to not thinking in that way at all, probably!

why is everything getting destroyed today. i like my everything

the law of might demands it

oh okay. i can stop it by being stronger than you i understand. cuts you down as always

im not anon but i have an impression something along the lines of: the qualia questions are coming up because your posts - and the post about LLM consciousness you linked, seem at least to me to be suggesting that ~experience is somehow produced by ~detailed and persistent self modelling. other models suggest that some kind of experience exists even without this detailed and persistant self modelling. it seems natural to say the latter - in a discussion of consciousness - is leaning towards identifying that as a concept more with subjective experience in a basic sense that the concept of qualia often conveys. whereas the former identifies it more with like, something sort of adjacent to self awareness? but the "qualia" in the the expansive experiential take is not necessarilly asserting any one clear relationship to materialism/dualism/neutral monism/etc. or other special attributes that may often come with the concept, so i think if one is sympathetic to the latter model the response of qualia not existing comes off as fairly surprising and unclear in what it could mean (sorry if this is wildly off base?)

I think it's wild that matt smith is famous enough that he gets to be the one guy that the name matt smith refers to even though there's like a million guys with that name. his wikipedia article doesn't even have parentheses in the title the name matt smith just unambiguously refers to this one guy

Oh the developer of Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy is moonlighting as an actor? That sounds like a fun hobby. I hope it makes him happy

its very funny to read this post and not have any clue who matt smith is beyond the context provided by this post