Utilitarian brainworms or one of the many very real instances of a homicidal parent going after their disabled child? I can’t decide, but it’s a depressing read.

May end up on SRD, but you read it here first.

  • elmtonic@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    For the purposes of this argument, near term AGI or promising clinical trials for depression are off the table.

    FOX ONLY. FINAL DESTINATION. NO ITEMS ROBOT GODS.

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      7 months ago

      Because that would be the first thing I thought of, “AGI.” Like, my kid is really depressed; if we only had developed a robot who could think.

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      7 months ago

      funny that, considering that we might be close to end of beating around the bush and there might be reasonable, solid mechanism of action for all known antidepressants https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/how-antidepressants-work-last

      meaning there could be new antidepressants based on that mechanism in decade or so, removing many of limitations of the previous ones (and probably introducing a slew of new ones)