I have two insane hellish days of work, then I can escape for vacation. I don’t know why work always has to be worst right before my escape, but i will get it done.

It really was the perfect finale for the series. The subsequent ones not so much

I’ve never met anyone with Halloween as their special interest and this sounds so fun!!

Yeah really, how about death of insufficient recompense

Same here, but somehow in instead started with those old scientists. Gonna be a fun ride!!

There’s not much better in the world than experiencing your favorite music live. I just went to a music festival over the weekend and saw a bunch of bands I love so my win is pretty much the same

I’ve always done this. When I separated from my wife I spent a couple years living alone and since I work from home I was only seeing people like once a week. In that time period I lost my ability to filter this out when others are around

It’s now been years and I’ve maybe regained half of my ability to do this. It’s been pretty terrible

Nope, plantation house, single wall construction. The kind built by sugar plantation workers in Hawaii. Probably very easy to run things in comparison

My house in the US (>100 yrs old) had neither of those things when I bought it. I did add them (including dryer alongside my washer in kitchen), but only because I eventually had enough money that I could. I was fine without them.

I’d probably fall into the mechanist category but I don’t think tests as I understand your description would be sufficient. A giant lookup table defining my responses for every situation in my life would pass all tests of input > output but not be conscious.

I would say it’s in all likelihood about the physical processes that occur during the process of input > output that would define it.

Of course, I have no idea what consciousness actually is, but I don’t see any compelling evidence that the current models are anywhere near there.

Best: companionship, I get very lonely when completely alone, even though I normally hate people

Worst: everything is a compromise which can breed resentment, especially when communication breaks down