It is, has been for almost 2 years. I’ve had mine in the US since Oct 2024.

It’s not compatible with some NA networks, but it is available for use with providers that it is compatible with.

Fairphone.

Some algal species can be used as biodiesel sources due to their high oil content, so you could probably just diversify the kinds of algae.

Loopholes are a problem with a standard. But a problem that probably needs revision rather than just scraping the standards.

1. I said nothing about souls. If I’m talking about souls (without direct prompting), I’m deep in a psychotic episode.

2. I don’t really get what you mean by the gestures broadly thing? I’m very open to an expansion on that thought, but have no current sense of what that means.

3. It’s not just the vague idea of quantum hootnannies, it is the fact that intentionally inducing extra quantum hootnannies in the brain structure of animals has a noticeable impact on the effects of various anesthesia, i.e. the “anti-conciousness drugs”.

I’m not claiming there is definitive proof, I’m simply stating there is some real, empirical evidence that supports the notion that consciousness is an emergent property reliant upon a maybe narrow range of emergent effects from quantum mechanics that are inherently absent from Turing machine computational models.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374724769_Quantum_Consciousness_Empirical_Evidence_for_Quantum_Mechanisms_in_Human_Cognition_and_Consciousness

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12871-025-02956-9

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-85673-w

There is some limited empirical evidence to support the hypothesis, yes.

For example:

Through state-of-the-art spectroscopic techniques, specifically two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES), we’ve detected quantum coherent processes in the microtubules within neural structures. This provides empirical support to our hypothesis about the role of quantum mechanisms in cognition. Furthermore, we provide substantial empirical evidence for quantum mechanisms underlying cognitive processes, including decision-making and memory recall, and present a quantum model of consciousness.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374724769_Quantum_Consciousness_Empirical_Evidence_for_Quantum_Mechanisms_in_Human_Cognition_and_Consciousness

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2025.1676585/full

Quantum effects are literally one of the things that computers are designed specifically to avoid. We’re bumping up against the point where we can make conventional computer chips more dense the same ways we have previously since quantum tunneling causes some noticeable errors in computing when things get too much closer together.

The difference of scale is in the grey area of the difference of scale of quantum and classical mechanics, though. Conciousness very much could be something that depends on the emergent properties of quantum mechanics and doesn’t reach classical mechanics.

There may not be proof that LLMs aren’t sentient, but there is some evidence and reason to believe that consciousness is an emergent property of quantum effects, whereas turing machines are relegated to classical mechanics. The same evidence would indicate it is unlikely that a turing machine could replicate the human brain since it uses fundamentally different layers of reality to calculate/think.

Combined with it having been demonstrated in other animals, I sorta wonder if it is ingrained somewhere close to a DNA level. All known life on earth has the same handedness to their DNA (left) even though it is physically/chemically possible to have DNA strands that are righthanded. I wonder if the handedness of the DNA strands have any impact on results in emergent properties that impact the natural trend around macro-scale drifting while moving.

Not necessarily.

If I bake a cake, I can stop it from burning. If I leave that cake baking until my children are adults, they have no way to unburn the cake. At some point, they have to toss it in the compost bin and wait before it can help fertilize a new generation.

CSAM numbers (intentional viewers, not incidental stumbling upon it) are probably closer to 1/3-1/2 of that.

16% is the same amount that approved of Trumps stupid birthday bash, though. And the same percentage that say the economy is doing great currently. And the same as people who have invested in bitcoin. I’d expect a high rate of overlap in those 16%s.

Couple problems with that.

Zero reserve banking has been allowed since 2020 (US). Banks are not required to have any cash reserves in order to make loans.

Fractional reserve banking does not mean that no money is created out of thin air when making a loan, but that not all of it is.

Actual empirical evidence and bank records support the notion that at least the bulk of the money loaned is created ex nihilo.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057521914001070

Who gives a flying fuck what terms one asshole is sick of? Fuck him, fuck vibe coding and trying to enforce language that appeals to what “elite” dipshits like.

Depends. If the tax is based on jobs replaced, not the abstractly defined number of robots that exist, it would have an impact. Also, monolithic solutions tend to be inherently less efficient than similarly developed defined ones, so limiting the robot models for a tax benefit would have another limit on their efficiency.

It’s an issue that could be accounted for, if there were sufficient political will. If taxes from automation were committed to public good, there would likely be pretty widespread acceptance.

This gets close to an idea I heard long ago that I think has some merit.

Hire an employee? You must not only pay them, but cover taxes to have them there. Buy a robot to replace them? It’s a business expense, no taxes!

Okay, pay taxes for your robot usage. Use that money to fund UBI, social programs and/or retraining people for other jobs.