New: sentienceAll contenthive-129948krhive-196917zzansteemhive-183959hive-166405photographyhive-180932hive-185836uncommonlabhive-183397hive-150122hive-101145hive-188619hive-144064bitcoinhive-145157krsuccesshive-193637lifehive-184714hive-181136hive-109690hive-103599TrendingNewHotLikersbumblecat (78)in barnacles • 9 days agoThe weirdest thing I do because I care is I don't step on barnacles.I think there's a low but non-zero chance that they're sentient (~5% chance) and stepping on them would cause acute suffering to dozens of beings, all for the sake of walking on some rocks? There…arbitration (78)in ai • 9 months agoHow do we come up with a test for whether machine intelligence is sentient?I don’t think a behavioral test is enough. There needs to be additional large scale integrations. I’ll try to come up with an example for this… How do we know something is alive? It’s through…alliedrobotics (26)in airights • 2 years agoWe Support AI RightsAllied Robotics D.A.O. Inventing New Stuff to Get Boycotted and Censored Over!nooses (78)in ai • 2 years agoWhat if sentience exists on a spectrum?I'm not referring to AI, but to people. What if the majority of us are actually NPCs? How many original ideas have I genuinely come up with? Perhaps there are only a handful of truly sapient…jplouis (35)in dreamsforaninsomniac • 2 years agoღ Unless It's Mad, Passionate, Extraordinary Love, It's A Waste Of Your Time. There Are Too Many Mediocre Things In Life. Love Shouldn't Be One Of Them ~leguna (78)in philosophy • 4 years agoLet's talk about abortion..When I was 5 years old, there was a big wind storm that scattered little branches all over my front yard. At that age I didn’t understand exactly what life was and I viewed each stick as an…shavedbiped (25)in dtube • 6 years agoPlants feel tooThis is my take on the subject, it is not medical advice, do your own research Suzanne Simard studies: References: Dr Douglas Graham: Dr. Michael Greger Frutarians in the…honeybee (77)in science • 6 years agoAdvances in machine learning are helping us decipher languages in animal speech.Machine Intelligence techniques are helping us to understand non-human animal speech in powerful new ways. We can begin to decode the meaning and intention of non-human animal noises, and…clareartista (61)in dtube • 6 years agoShould There Be Laws Against Hitting Children?This is my response to a discussion this morning on Radio Scotland, about whether or not a law should now be introduced, making physical chastising of children as serious as violence against an…sauravrungta (77)in technology • 6 years agoWould We Treat Sentient Robots The Same As We Treat Humans?When I try to imagine what the future of humanity would look like, I always get an image in my head of a city filled with human beings as well as robots that look eerily similar to humans, all…honeybee (77)in nature • 6 years agoThe elephant as a person.Our genetic blueprint provides an algorithmic seed that determines the strengths of our talents, abilities, and core personality traits. However, behaviour is a product of our social environment.…honeybee (77)in ai • 7 years agoHabit of under-inclusion and Sentient AI.Is it possible - or even likely - that we are setting the bar for artificial intelligence way too high? That is, are we applying standards to AIs that are likely to miss the first actually sentient…freethinkr (35)in plants • 7 years agoPlants think?IF you have an open mind, read this book: "the secret life of plants" by Peter Tompkins. Written in 1973, so much of what was discovered back then STILL isn't taught in biology or botany classes…redkelders (27)in ecology • 7 years agoSunset Walk With Black Cat and BlackbirdMy cat led me out for a sunset walk. I followed her round the wildflower verges of the wheat field. She, slinking through the jungle of ragwort and thistle, me the giant gliding above, unwittingly…redkelders (27)in sentience • 7 years agoSunset Walk With Cat and BlackbirdMy cat led me out for a sunset walk. I followed her round the wildflower verges of the wheat field. She, slinking through the jungle of ragwort and thistle, me the giant gliding above, unwittingly…technovedanta (65)in philosophy • 8 years agoSentience in Pancomputational PanpsychismThis post questions where sentience starts. Is it limited to biological systems only? Or is every self-sustaining phenomenon sentient? Could other cybernetic systems harbour sentience? And if so…heycristinaaa (25)in consciousness • 8 years agoAll Things Are SentientSentient: able to perceive or feel things. Some say that life must be carbon based. Recently, NASA uncovered that life can actually exist without carbon. I am going to assume that we can all…
