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> We have souls, understand and live by a hopefully objective set of moral values and duties, aren't thrown off by contradictions the same way computers are

Citations needed



are you feeling depressed or suicidal?


That reply would fit better on Reddit than HN. Here we discuss things with curiosity.

If making a claim that humans have ephemeral things like souls and adherence to some kind of objective morality that is beyond our societal programming, then it's fair to ask for the reasoning behind it.

Every year machines surprise us by seeming more and more human (err, perhaps not that but "human-capable"). We used to have ephemeral creativity or ephemeral reasoning that made us masters at Drawing, Painting, Music, Chess or GO. No longer.

There are still some things we excel at that machines don't. Or some things that it takes all the machines in the world to do in 10,000 years with a nuclear plant's worth of energy that a single human brain does in one second powered by a cucumber's worth of calories.

However, this has only ever gone in one direction: machines match more and more of what we do and seem to lack less and less of what we are.


How old are you if you don't mind me asking?


I do mind you asking.

You can choose to engage with the content of the discussion or choose not to engage with it.

"Everybody who disagrees with me is either a child or clinically depressed" isn't what I come to HN for.


Sorry to offend your sensibilities bud. This discussion thread is over.


Can't you just reply to his points?


I could. The next thing he will do is accuse me of solipsism. So I'm gonna stop right here and agree with him.




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