The Young Ones is a classic for me for some good old Thatcher bashing now and again. Doesn't really do much critiquing of capitalism in general but it's well worth a watch.

Yeah there's some ideas about there clearly being a difference in that the brain isn't feed-forward like these algorithms are. The book I Am a Strange Loop is a great read on the topic of consciousness. But I bet these models hit a massive plateau as the pump them full of bigger, shitter data. Who knows if we'll ever achieve any actual parity between human and ai experience.

Exactly all the hype started after the game released and people banged on about how fucking amazing it is. Nearly 200hrs later and I concur.

Also you reset your taste buds and come to realise how greasy and sugary everything is that you don't make yourself or eat out at a nice place.

Hey that's just me! Each to there own, I'm not a metal head if you didn't guess lol

System of a Down, Hed PE, Born of Osiris, Lamb of God are some picks from me

Look I'm genuinely trying to get what your argument is there's no need to be so combative because I used the wrong word for that island and the people inside of it. I don't think I'm being obtuse or anything, just you presented a tautological argument without any evidence so I don't know what I'm supposed to read into.

I'm really sorry I'm not quite following what you're saying. Taiwan are claiming all of China?

I think the question is surely should or does Taiwan want independence rather than pointing to the top of a Wikipedia page right?

Wow that was definitely an enlightening read on the etymology, so the word was fucked from the get go haha..

Sean O’Conaill (1976) - 'I would not suggest such a thing were it not for the Whatabouts. These are the people who answer every condemnation of the Provisional I.R.A. with an argument to prove the greater immorality of the “enemy”, and therefore the justice of the Provisionals’ cause: “What about Bloody Sunday, internment, torture, force feeding, army intimidation?”. '

I know it gets used like shit but do you think there's any utility in the term 'whataboutism' if the definition is strict? Like I always understood it to be pointing out ludicrous pontificating about things that'll never happen. Obviously that's not how it's used at all in reality and your description is much more apt.

When you say "no room to make business." That's where I think the fundamental disagreement is rooted. Socialism is inherently built on the idea that what you are building in a capitalist system is exploiting labour. The people you bring in should have ownership of the company too in a socialist system, not the state. What you're describing is a communist dictatorship. State programs should be run by the state just as they are in most countries now. You certainly don't want companies running your government.

Yeah that or distant relatives