Without wanting to go deeper into our disagreement, I disagree with you and you with me, I found a fun list I'd like to share with you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insult_of_officials_and_the_state

and an interesting one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insult_(legal)

Yes, you made me look it up, while they mean the same, mobbing is more in the context of school, at least here in Germany.

I get what you say. An people do insult here as well. It's just good to know that you have the right to sue and have the law on your side if you do so. It's not like insulting is something which makes freedom of speech a good thing. Freedom of speech is about having the permission to say a thought which opposes the mainstream without fearing to get beaten down by the police or thrown into jail.

Yeah, I've seen those Walmart and McDonalds videos.

Yes, but retweeting or re-sharing is ok (as long as it isn't illegal content like some child photos or Nazi stuff) since this doesn't express your view towards to the content.

No. You can have your opinion. But every person has a right to dignity which is held very high. And insults are an attack on the dignity.

Germany has some odd but sensible laws. For example escaping a prison is not a crime because the natural urge for freedom is intrinsic to every human.

The case where I said that your dad can insult you or you your dad or brother is also an interesting thing. The law specifies that the sphere of the family is a dignity-free zone, therefore insults are allowed. This is done to ensure that a trustworthy environment is created, where family members can express their opinion without having the fear of getting sued. This is limited to insults and even this is limited, for example mobbing is not allowed.

In Germany, if you upvote a post, you are liable for the content of that post.

For example if someone posts "Politician X is an asshole" and you "like" that post, then Politician X can sue you.

Good job, Russians, stay as classy as always. You're the new Germans now.

This is good news, because those German fuckers will be getting nowhere with their "we need to do this the right way" oh-look-at-us-sers.

I'm absolutely blown away by the quality of those images.

TBH this is an area where I think AI will have a huge chance to improve living conditions. Once it gets exclusive access to the stock markets.

The leaders are real monsters.

And 95% of that content will only be consumed by bots gathering data for reporting statistics.

Sure, but consider how complicated that ordinary matter is. You could go down to the mitochondria and think about the existence of life at that level, since it's absurdly complex and crazy what is happening there. Silicon doesn't have the tiniest fraction of that complexity.

I believe that it takes a certain arrangement of matter to create, or to host, or to communicate with what concience is, and that cells do have that capability, but chips are far away from that.

Unless you argue that it is some kind of resonance which enables an universe of consciousness to sync/tune in with this reality or universe in order to observe it and be able to interact with it, and that biology managed to build this "tuner" through certain cells and possibly brain wave resonances, which maybe could be replicated by silicon.

It could be possible that AI could discover our conscience for us and then try to implement it in its own hardware. But that would be like it is now discovering new mathematics without having consciousness.

Visuals? Touch?

It doesn't take any of these. Just having conversations which make you grow as a person will start creating an attachment to an AI, to the point where you will make jokes together and sigh and make you think that you wholesomely like this communication partner.

But I really couldn't imagine getting it more personal than this. I'd consider myself to be mentally disturbed if it would.