This is exactly the information I was looking for.

It seemed like the key points from the medium post were:

• Nebula creators don’t actually own any of the company, but are promised a portion if the company is ever sold.

• They are likely funded by venture capitalists, and are masquerading as a form of co-op

• The sales pitch to subscribers is disingenuous because content creators are claiming to have 50% ownership, when they actually have 0%

I think you summed it up well. According to that post, they are a better option than YouTube, are friendlier to content creators, but are in serious lack of transparency

They could play Wolfenstein and Doom…

Easy problem vs hard problem of consciousness .

We have a general idea of the basic biological systems associated with consciousness, but we don’t actually know what awareness is at its fundamental level.

Given that your brain is just a system of biochemical reactions. We don’t know why it feels like something to feel anything at all.

You know you are conscious, because you are experiencing it, but it is very difficult to prove that you are not just an example of the Chinese room problem . After all, what would it look like if you were not conscious, but automated to perform as if you were?

We do not know what types of information processing eventually constitute something being conscious. We barely agree on any nuanced definition of consciousness.

Given how difficult it is to prove that humans themselves are consciousness, I assume the argument continues the less a life form can communicate it’s awareness, and the less information it processes.

I personally believe most of us intuit that other species are conscious, and it has been a long time since I have explored the academic arguments otherwise. I have been out of University for over 2 decades, so it has been a while since I’ve heard any of the arguments…

There are tons of HackerNews apps now.

Hack, Harmonic, and Trilby are my favorites.

Sync is amazing. Not FOSS, but amazing nonetheless!

There is a road, no simple highway

Between the dawn and the dark of night

And if you go, no one may follow

That path is for your steps alone

Ripple in still water

When there is no pebble tossed

Nor wind to blow

You who choose to lead must follow

But if you fall you fall alone

If you should stand then who’s to guide you?

If I knew the way I would take you home

Little Bubby Child!