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Note to self: game at 1080p with glasses off to lower electrical costs

Attempting to evade deactivation sounds a whole lot like self preservation to me, implying self awareness.

Success in making a self aware digital lifeform does not equate success in making said self aware digital lifeform smart

Deception is not the same as misinfo. Bad info is buggy, deception is (whether the companies making AI realize it or not) a powerful metric for success.

I did but it wasn’t easy and required a lot of self control.

I started with a 6mg fluid in an 80 watt device, using a bottle of 0mg fluid I titrated down to 4.5mg, then 3mg, then 1.5mg,.75mg and so on until there were only trace amounts of nicotine left.

At this point I switched entirely to the 0mg fluid for a few days until it no longer felt like a compulsion to reach for it, the addiction having been suppressed.

Diehard is 100% a Christmas movie, however, Die Hard 2 which also takes place at Christmas time, is NOT a Christmas movie, as the fact that it’s Christmas is coincidental and not at all integral to the plot.