I think we can very strongly infere that other humans are conscious from knowing that we are conscious ourselves and seeing that other peoples brains work in the same way as ours and people think and behave in a very similar way as us and also have a concept of what consciousness is that corresponds with our own. In my opinion believing that other people aren’t conscious is in the same category of beliefs as the past, the future or even the world and physical laws not existing outside of our subjective experiences. Sure you can not mathematically prove any of that but questioning it isn’t really useful for more than a philosophical exercise of scepticism. As for AI I think it is a tricky question that I can’t answer. Right now I don’t think it is but maybe in the future it will be.
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qtj@feddit.deto World News@lemmy.ml•China's fertility rate drops to record low 1.09 in 20223·2 years agoI think a big problem would be population size. China has about the same population as all of Africa. So the question would be where immigrants should come from. I imagine to be helpful china would probably have to become a popular destination for migrants from all of Africa and Asia at a very large scale.
qtj@feddit.deto World News@lemmy.ml•Ukraine war: Kyiv claims first victories of counter-offensive - BBC News1·2 years agoWhat I don’t get is why Marxist leninists seem to support Russia in this conflict, just because it was ruled by a Marxist Leninist party over 30 years ago. The current Russian regime is just as capitalist as any western government. The only plausible reason to me is that they still see capitalism as synonymous with “the west” even though it is a global system which rules all large nations today.
qtj@feddit.deto Technology@beehaw.org•Sol Reader is a VR headset exclusively for reading books4·2 years agoI like the idea, but $350 is way overpriced in my opinion.
qtj@feddit.deto Technology@beehaw.org•WTF? This computer's CPU fan is powered on by only a HDMI monitor1·2 years agoI think The 50mA is only the current output according to the hdmi specification.
I think that’s allready pretty good because many people who are against these changes will just probably stop participating on reddit at all during the protest and thereby not influence what’s on the front page.
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