Out of curiosity, could you link to/share your research for us? The open source stuff in particular?

Calling this terrorism is ridiculous. They were trying to get in to a military base which stationed bombers actively used in the ongoing war. Reminds me of the ploughshares movement if it wasn’t sponsored by Iran.

I’m not going to argue against your conclusion, I strongly believe we do not have anything resembling human consciousness in software yet.

But Penrose was definitely not proven right (unless you’re talking about black holes), nor was the Orch OR theory about microtubules proven, nor was consciousness proven to be a quantum phenomenon. Here’s an easy, accessible article that goes over the state of the research: https://www.breezyscroll.com/science/new-quantum-evidence-is-reopening-the-debate-over-penroses-theory-of-consciousness/

This is super cool to hear! Do you know if many other major Canadian politicians are on Mastadon?

Is this hosted anywhere other than a US owned website?

It also creates fewer philosophical problems if you distinguish between countable and uncountable adjectives. Though, I suppose that’s a less philosophical point than you made.

Would’ve loved if the article specified what research centres were closed, what exactly they were doing, and how much they cost.

I was very upset when the feds closed the Weather Radar Research Group, but these “seven research facilities” don’t have any of those specifics.

For example, it makes a big difference if the government cut a vertical farm research centre that cost $500k/year, or if it was an experimental cattle farm and cost $5 million/year. The latter, I would agree with closing.

And a lot of the extra money has come from freezing tax brackets (rather than rising with inflation), and clawing back the basic personal amount from high earners.

That is, effectively tax hikes on the wealthy, but subtle enough that nobody got upset.

Props to him and his team on the budget!

I don’t quite understand, Scotland and Wales already aren’t part of the common market. By seceding from the UK, they might actually have an easier time joining the common market and strengthening the EU, which is the real unified power block.

I’m learning from this thread that the user base here is overwhelmingly male.

The call to action for their product, “protect your identity now,” makes me extremely suspicious of the entire thing.

You can find stats showing that support for the Conservatives falls in Canada as education rises. So depending on region and definition, it’s not just you.

That being said, that doesn’t mean there are zero. Jordan Peterson as a famous example.

I would describe it as very rich. Also fruit adjacent, not quite fruity but sort of like that flavour.