The discussion could be relevant to more than just the original poster if other people with similar cases find the same thread later. If the OP is forced to state their jurisdiction, the discussion might be more focused, but potentially less useful to others.
Raspberry PIs.
I’d just call that respiration. Every definition of breathing I can find is particular to lungs.
Edit: Actually, that’s not true—I found a dictionary that lists a broader metaphorical usage that encompasses all respiration (including plants and fish).
The article you linked doesn’t discuss how the DR evolved, but it seems more likely to result from the occasional risk of submersion faced by most land animals, rather than something they all inherited from fish (who neither breathe nor sleep).
That’s an easy hypothesis to test, because all land vertebrates have fish ancestors.
Do you see all land animals washing their faces with cold water to wake up?
That assumes that AI companies are negatively impacted by the quality of their product. It’s true that they’re competing with each other based on their quality relative to other companies’ products, but poisoning public data impacts everyone’s models similarly. Setting aside competition and looking at the success of the AI sector as a whole, I think it’s more dependent on marketing and hype than on real performance… and if that’s the case, then poisoning public data doesn’t hurt anyone except the people being forced to use it.
Because of the inverse relationship between velocity and diameter.
The velocity is proportional to bladder pressure and inversely proportional to the square of the diameter of the urethra. The shape of the body parts outside the urethra is irrelevant.
I think you run into trouble when you try to define consciousness by how reality reacts to it, because we have no objective access to how reality reacts to anything except as filtered through our own consciousness.
we can ask whether a system has an integrated point of view within which possible outcomes become meaningfully different for that system, rather than merely being classified differently by it
How about defining “meaningfully different” as outcomes that persist as distinct states into the arbitrarily distant future? That wouldn’t require any objective response from external reality, but it would require the system to have some ability to predict the evolution of external reality outside of its current task.
See Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”.
If LLMs are judged by some specific metric meant to track their negative impact, they’ll adapt to make the metric look good without improving the underlying impact.
A demiurge, “one who makes for the people” (from Greek demos “public” + ergon “work”).
Not to be confused with the Gnostic Demiurge, a secondary creator god.
I think the bivalve style is the more interesting case—it’s like their guts have a built-in mortar-and-pestle.
Wikipedia has a whole article on this subject:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_locomotion_in_living_systems
The exceptions it mentions are bacterial flagella and part of the digestive system of some bivalves.
With his severed head used as a prop in a production of The Bacchae?
Crassus.
He got obscenely rich from real estate speculation, bought his way into high political office, and started an unnecessary and disastrous war with Iran.
The last two and a half millennia of western philosophy has been the slow realization that Epicurus and Heraclitus were closer to the truth than Plato or Aristotle.
Nah, that’s what got us the DMCA.
We need laws that are robust and universal enough to accommodate a spectrum of unforeseeable circumstances, not laws that are tailored to one expected future narrative.
Although it might be good to explore possible scenarios for how each law could be abused, and include provisions to void it if they occur.
That, and war makes for better narratives.
That war is the connective tissue of human history, rather than the holes in the tissue.
And Iron Man built his in a cave! With a box of scraps!