[HN Gopher] What is it like to be a smartphone? ___________________________________________________________________ What is it like to be a smartphone? Author : ascertain Score : 33 points Date : 2020-09-28 21:29 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.roughtype.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.roughtype.com) | blendergeek wrote: | Wayback Machine Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20200928213413/http://www.rought... | oldschoolrobot wrote: | dumb | madprops wrote: | Thing's will probably snowball exponentially once we figure out | how to clone consciousness and create fractal networks. | JBiserkov wrote: | Do smartphones "die" when they run out of battery or is that | merely "sleep" for them? RAM needs power, but ROM is preserved so | ... amnesia? Comma? | | I'm never letting my phone battery drain again. | Stratoscope wrote: | Do Android phones dream of electric sleep? | sassycassie wrote: | hahaha this is a unique way of thinking lmao | wombatmobile wrote: | "We are, however, able to see that, excepting the simplest of | life forms, an animal has a consciousness" | | What does the word "consciousness" mean in that sentence, and why | are the simplest of life forms excluded? What test do we apply | that all organisms pass, except for the simplest life forms, | which fail? | Animats wrote: | "Our pets are amusing" - Dust SF. Two intelligent Alexa-like | devices maneuver their "owners" into hooking up. | TeMPOraL wrote: | This reminds me of the question: did we domesticate wheat, or | did wheat domesticate us? Did we domesticate cats, or did cats | domesticate us? | | Thus is the nature of the feedback loop. | freedomben wrote: | I studied dogs quite a bit (informal academia (course audits, | etc)), and I firmly believe they domesticated us instead of | the other way around. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-09-28 23:00 UTC)