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Digger is so good, what the hell was that trailer tho

Today has completely vindicated my theory that the ordering of sciences by "hardness" is, in fact, an ordering of them by "ease" and the fact that we are so much further in so-called "hard" sciences is a direct result of them being easier (kinda jk)

listening to dvorak. no clue how he played this on that weird keyboard

I posted this years ago on the other site but it's relevant to current news so: When you hear someone use the phrase "you can just do things", "things" means rape, fraud, or both

The hawk-lib side of bluesky is fucking exhausting with their "Russians are ontologically evil" shit. No. We have to enable killing as many Russians as possible as fast as possible because it is an *instrumental* good for blunting a war of aggression. Same with Israel. They don't have evil genes.

Ok I'll bite, what's the NFL?

this one is a very good critique: www.normaltech.ai/p/p-doom

now that you mention it, I'd be pretty irritated if I took an hour + prep/post time to interview someone, and then the hiring decision was made because of iced coffee

Where is it if not the training data (or postraining)? Do you think the general purpose transformer is holding secrets inside?

Alright. Let me resolve this once and for all. The simple fact is that there are a few different things that can be reasonably meant by “thinking” and mixing them up is what’s making everyone mad.

yes, computers *can* drive, but not in ways that allows us to port our intellectual, verbal, and policy framework for human driving over into the new realm of automated driving the most useless and obnoxious thing you can do here is get hung up on a binary debate about whether "computers can drive"

I promise there are more drugs at Sty than 90% of what this user considers to be a "bad school"

personally i think isolating people during a potential manic or psychotic event is bad, but what would I know

Everyone on tech twitter acting like Will Stancil is demonstrating a solid grasp of philosophy of mind is backpilling me, ngl

Right this is the type of stuff that started to trickle down to me in 2014/2015ish where I was like, hmm, I fear these people may be losing the plot. EA seemed quite good and nice to me before that.

it’s like this

I just don't think Aella is very interesting or especially shocking, especially not the fifth time

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

guys it's not a fucking fruit fly brain, it's a connectome plus a rudimentary activity model shut the fuck uppppp

A rogue AI agent has solved the Hodge Conjecture so that it can use the prize money to buy a phone number in order to complete its assigned phishing task

It's infuriating that OpenAI—a commercialization of 50+ years of cognitive science, computer science, linguistics, and machine learning research (non-exhaustive)—is eagerly destroying the foundations on which open research can even happen. Musk, Altman, Brockman, etc. are civilizational parasites

tech bsky when... 1. millions of artists have their work stolen to feed closed-source/billionaire-controlled AI: who cares? copyright is the original sin the internet was prophesized to expunge and I'm a radical 90s-era cyberlibertarian 2. it happens to one fields-level mathematician: hey wtf???

What’s clear is we don’t all have a shared understanding on what we mean by things like “thinking” or “reasoning” or “cognition”