flashgnash

Don't get chatgpt plus, just get an API token and use one of the desktop apps/CLIs, it's pay as you go and way cheaper unless you're using gpt 4 all day every day or something

Oh for sure it's a good thing to talk about, that's just my viewpoint on it

This is certainly one interpretation and the one I generally use but it's still an an abstraction based on sentiment

Chatgpt can make decisions based on past "knowledge" and external stimuli, but we don't consider it to have free will

You could say that's only because it can't do anything without human input but we can't do anything without input from our senses

I think conversation with anyone about that kind of thing is good as long as they're willing to engaged. If they have thought about it you get a different viewpoint, if they haven't you give them something to think about

I don't really take a stance either way on the free will thing because I think it's a made up concept whose existence entirely depends on your own definition of the word

Unless you believe in some kind of immutable soul that's separate from the physical body and brain that is in charge of decisions somehow I suppose

Come to the dark side we have version controlled operating systems

Docker and podman aren't too bad nowadays I don't think assuming you're not running something huge

(Podman is another tool that does the same thing as docker)

Docker and podman containers are basically like throwaway mini-vms that contain one application to ensure it will always run no matter where so long as the machine you're running them on can run docker

They can run CLI stuff just fine, I'm not sure about desktop apps someone smarter than me will probably tell you about that

IIRC that's the whole point of flatpak, snap and appimage

Docker can probably do it too, distrobox puts a useful wrapper on that

Nix does that kind of, nix packages aren't isolated in that they can't access resources on your system but all dependencies are stored in the nix store, hashed and isolated from eachother, and wiped when you collect garbage

I would say his free will is not restricted

His decision making options are restricted but those decisions are just as much a product of his past as the ones we make out of prison, he's still acting entirely based on external and internal forces

I'll put it this way, if you were to make an exact copy of our universe at this moment and watch both of them play out, he'd almost certainly make the exact same decision both times, same applies to someone out of prison

My point isn't that people don't practically have agency in the decisions they make, because they obviously do. We just don't know all the forces that influence that decision and it's not useful to think about that, so we call it free will

Met a few people like that, can literally talk to them for hours without getting bored

So far all of those people are either dudes or taken though lol

I think free will as a concept is kinda stupid I've yet to talk to anyone who can actually give it a solid definition that isn't something like "it means we can do what we want"

Either your decision is based on your personality, meaning it's not free it's a set calculation based on genetics and accumulated experience or it's completely random meaning it's not will at all

I currently feel like my nervous system is vibrating having just got out of the gym after preworkout

Is it that bad? I had thought the buildings would have mostly survived given the city was built to withstand them and that it was just too dangerous for people

How do you recover from that? Does insurance cover it?