I did some analysis of the modlog and found this:

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Ok, bigger instances ban more often. Not surprising, because they have more communities and more users and more trouble. But hang on, dbzer0 isn’t a very big instance. What happens if we do a ratio of bans vs number of users?

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Ok, so lemmy.ml, dbzer0 and pawb are issue an outsized amount of bans for the number of users they have… But surely the number of communities the instance hosts is going to mean they have to ban more? Bans are used to moderate communities, not just to shield their user-base from the outside. Let’s look at the number of bans per community hosted:

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Seems like dbzer0 really loves to ban. Even more than the marxists and the furries! What is it about dbzer0 that makes them such prolific banners?

Raw-ish numbers and calculations are in this spreadsheet if anyone wants to make their own charts.

  • Bluetreefrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    I get the feeling that research is circling around consciousness arising from quantum effects inside nerve cells. If it’s not that, and it’s just an emergent property of complex neural networks, then:

    • smaller animals are less conscious (note, I’m not saying intelligent) than humans, and
    • we are all fucked, because AI definitely is/will become conscious, and when that happens Terminator will come true.
    • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      I get the feeling that research is circling around consciousness arising from quantum effects inside nerve cells.

      It absolutely isn’t; this is just a fringe theory that gets undue attention because Roger Penrose is a crank who also happens to have enough credibility from the genuine work in physics he’s done. It really doesn’t have any wider support.

    • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      5 hours ago

      Zebrafish have passed the mirror-test.

      Put a little something stuck on their aft body, show them a mirror, & they’ll KNOW it’s on them, & they’ll go find something to rub that attachment off them with.

      There are many larger animals which don’t pass the mirror-test.

      I believe some hive-insects have passed the test.

      Mind is a latent-property of universe: matter only amplifies it, it doesn’t “create it from nowhere”, the way materialism pretends.

      ( if arranged-matter created-mind-from-nowhere, then evolution wouldn’t have started, in the 1st place.

      if it’s only amplifying the expression of universally-latent-mind, then billions-of-years-of-consistent-evolution, violating entropy, becomes explainable: mind is seeking a lower-energy-state, is all: evolution is the expression through-which that lower-energy-state is being reached, & once it’s reached, then evolution collapses, for that world’s attached/associated … souls/continuums/minds )

      Your other point, that AI inevitably becomes conscious, & then it terminates us…

      not necessarily.

      The Great Filter hasn’t even really got going, yet: oceans of interestingness await our race, throughout the FO have of FAFO, right?

      _ /\ _

    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Four year old humans are definitely conscious. I used to be four, and I can remember being conscious. If we build a mechanical four year old, I don’t see any reason that thing is going to take over the world. Unless it turns out like Calvin.