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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Transcript: a post by Greg Stolze on Bluesky.

I heard some professor put googly eyes on a pencil and waved it at his class saying "Hi! I'm Tim the pencil! I love helping children with their homework but my favorite is drawing pictures!"

Then, without warning, he snapped the pencil in half.

When half his college students gasped, he said "THAT'S where all this AI hype comes from. We're not good at programming consciousness. But we're GREAT at imagining non-conscious things are people."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

"Computational complexity does not work that way!" is one of those TESCREAL-zone topics that I wish I had better reading recommendations for.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Check out the big brain on Yud!

I think the pre-election prosecutions of Hillary and Trump were both bullshit. Is there anyone on Earth who holds that Hillary's email server and Trump's lawyer's payment's accounting were both Terribly Serious Crimes, and can document having held the former position earlier?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I tried doing what I occasionally do and browsing LessWrong for something to point and laugh at, but opening it in a Firefox private window, I can only scroll down a little way before the page breaks. The bottom post appears and disappears, and it scrolls no further.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

what are the requirements for consciousness

10 coffee

20 goto 10

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

For background reading, see here and here.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The video title "A Pragmatist's Take on Small Talk" would be much better if it were William James giving advice on navigating the social niceties. Step 1: this hat.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

People simping for Microsoft makes my '90s-kid brain boggle.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fresh chicken blood is excellent for removing rust and graffiti from a CyberTruck!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (2 children)

To date, the largest working nuclear reactor constructed entirely of cheese is the 160 MWe Unit 1 reactor of the French nuclear plant École nationale de technologie supérieure (ENTS).

"That's it! Gromit, we'll make the reactor out of cheese!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

All it takes is one frivolous legal threat to shut down a small website by putting them on the hook for legal costs they can't afford. Facebook gets away with awful shit not because of the law, but because they are stupidly rich. Change the law, and they will still be stupidly rich. Indeed, the "sunset Section 230" path will make it open season for Facebook's lobbyists to pay for the replacement law that they want. I do not see that leading anywhere good.

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