Nah, they’ll just say the Democrats are still worse because reasons

I’d rather the Chinese government have my data than the US government. The US government has a lot more power over me.

Isn’t the brain just an information processing system?

Nothing in the thought experiment says that the program doesn’t behave that way. If the program really seems like it understands language to an outside observer, you would assume it did learn language that way.

I agree but at least the PoS cryptocurrencies seem to have solved the energy use problem.

By this argument any website is wasteful. There’s always a “better thing”.

Google is a tech company.

It’s always only going to be useful for things like buying drugs, cases where you want to skirt regulation or you really want privacy. Which is fine. It can have it’s niche. Pretending it was ever going to be more than that was a mistake.

They have rescinded this policy according to the article.

They can. It’s in the TOS when you make your account. They own everything you post to the site.