Jerkface (any/all)

You mean the only attempt to recreate it failed. Only one group has shown these results. The results are not universally accepted, and indeed are contested by a second group. That is not established science, it’s still a subject of considerable research. You certainly can’t walk into a commercial clinic and order a religious experience like I’m certain you could if this were nailed down.

This is not yet established science. See, eg, https://www.bioedonline.org/news/nature-news-archive/electrical-brainstorms-busted-source-ghosts/

I’m fond of dulse but it’s an acquired taste. Certainly tastes of the sea.

Please don’t talk at me. You’re not really addressing or engaging with what I said. You have a point to make that’s got nothing to do with me, take it to the top level.

Self-reflection and critical thinking are almost always defeated by social conformance among healthy well-adjusted humans. For a social animal, it is more important to agree with the group than to be objectively correct.

Yes? That’s arguably the Internet itself going through the exact same cycle. But it doesn’t change how the adoption cycle works or force software to magically be mature a decade early.

The times change but technologies still go through the same lifecycles. Nothing wrong with waiting for things to mature, though I’d rather accept some rough edges than accept getting sold as a product.

Once upon a time you needed GNUtella, freeseek, kaazaa, eMule, NZB, DirectConnect, FreeNet, and bittorrent. Give it time, if you can’t tolerate being an early adopter. You will find this pattern throughout life, not just on decentralized networks.

The evidence of the mechanism of anesthetics on microtubules preventing consciousness makes me suspect that actual honest to god consciousness is phenomenon that arises from fundamentally intra-cellular, not inter-cellular mechanisms; that no more than a single cell is required to have a form of experience. Which is a potential I hate, but it’s the most consistent model I have.

I suspect that all animal cells think and have experiences. But neural cells are specialized.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=organ+transplant+personality

Yeah, why didn’t I provision multiple backbones to my NOC? So shortsighted!

So, it all reduces to a prior problem. The sewers are a red herring.

Dogs are able to casually identify the individual who produced the most minute sample of shit, tell you their last three meals, what they are going to die from, and when; and dog society didn’t fall apart. We’ll manage.

What I really want is an Atari Portfolio or a Blackberry

Oh, I didn’t know what that was. Thanks.

Yes, the Star Lite is still probably too big for my ideal use cases, where I’m really just looking for a libre pocket-sized device.

I notice that while they give stats on their processor and most other components, they don’t seem to say anything at all about the GPU

Thank you for bringing this to my attention! That page made it look like an Android device but when you go to configure one, it’s Ubuntu.

Android was until recently an acceptable choice, while iOS has never been acceptable, no matter how “good” they make them. They are poisoned. Apple in general has always been extremely consumer-hostile and they are not trustworthy for the kind of relationship that they abusively force on their users.

My next tablet is going to be an x64 or ARM device that runs straight linux. Android is dead now that they are closing the software ecosystem.