[HN Gopher] What is it like to be a smartphone?
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       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?
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       | 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"
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       | 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.
        
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