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I think you're conflating consciousness and intelligence. I think you could theoretically have an artificial general intelligence on the same level of intelligence as a human, or even beyond, but with zero consciousness. We know that intelligence does not follow consciousness (unless you believe a fish or a cow is not conscious). Why should consciousness follow intelligence?

Yea really it's more a distinction between indie games and AAA games. The indie scene has never been better honestly.

Some snakes do indeed strangle their prey. It stands to reason that if the snakes body can withstand the tension of strangling when the snake is itself the initiator, it can withstand the same tension when used as a rope. I would think the forces involved are largely the same, perhaps aside from the places where the strangler grabs the snake.

Macros are often not very ergonomical to use compared to language features.

Also, why anonymous product types but not anonymous sum types? It seems kind of weird to me. Anonymous sum types can be just as useful as anonymous product types, as the blog post illustrates quite well I think.

So basically their argument is that the missing piece is anonymous sum types. I tend to agree! It would be amazing to have that as a language feature, i.e. Result<(), FooError | BarError>. Unfortunately that is unlikely to arrive to the language for a loooong time... But I think I will definitely try out this library in the meantime.

MitIDs password that doubles as an ID has also always been super weird to me. No idea why they did it like that.

Maybe so you don't need to remember both a username and a password? But that's such a pathetic reason.

That's only a problem because it is used as a password. If it was actually just a pure ID and didn't give access to any information, then it wouldn't matter. Okay, you could guess my ID if you had my birthdate - so what? The ID is useless, it's just an ID.

At least, however, we don’t have a citizen ID such as the one you describe, that could be used to identify people uniquely.

Oh don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with a citizen ID. Actually a citizen ID is very useful. It should just only be an ID and shouldn't give any access.

For those who are not familiar with the Danish citizen register: Basically it's an ancient system made way before computers were a thing and it's just not been updated to modern standards because politicians never prioritize things before they blow up in their face.

The crux of the issue: In Denmark, your personal ID is not just an ID, it is also an access token. So you need to keep your ID number secret, otherwise others can use it to look up your personal information. Like, imagine your username was also your password, that's how dumb this system is. Add to this the fact that certain private companies get priveliged access to the citizen register for reasons and anyone with a few braincells could predict this happening 20 years ago.

Is it just the related links under the post? Seems fine to me.

I don't think you're wrong but I question how much the name really matters. As a name, Reddit is also kind of confusing until someone explains the pun and has historically been seen as weird. Only reason it's not weird now is cause it's popular. The name "lemmy" could just as well see the same happen.