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Farmer Mows Philosophical AI Argument Into Cornfield

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Andy Masley@AndyMasley#1693inAI

Wow this farmer has a message for AI companies who want to buy his land

2:07 PM · Jun 8, 2026 · 6.7K Views
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Andy Masley@AndyMasley
Andy Masley@AndyMasley

Wow this farmer has a message for AI companies who want to buy his land

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@AndyMasley I think asserting that mental functionalism is independently very likely seems a bit much

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@AndyMasley Conclusion could be true but the argument as written fails. Glia play substantial roles in "neural" computation, there are 2-3 OOMs more synapses in a human brain than parameters in the largest ANNs to date, and modeling a single synapse properly requires hundreds of parameters.

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Matt Beard@matt_beard_

@AndyMasley everything is computer

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Andy Masley@AndyMasley

@Mmmm_nuh_uh I'm running with it for the joke

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Andy Masley@AndyMasley

@InVitroFuture I agree and kinda just wanted to get this out as a joke

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