Your iconic monologue? I’m sorry captain, I didn’t think the Federation recognized intellectual property. Besides, any resemblance to a deleted, highly incriminating log you may or may not have once made is purely coincidental. Now, can we talk about the work order on my replicators? Chief O’brian seems to think they’re ‘low priority’.

Discover is a strong word. The model points to compounds that, mathematically, might be superconducting. Researchers still have to synthesize and test the actual real compounds to know for sure.

Yes, I’m quibbling over language. It speeds up the normal process of discovery, but does not itself do the discovery.

AI is truly iterative on the normal use of the internet. Before, you had to click one of the links Google gave you before you could see this sort of facebook style “political” posting.

We appeal to ‘the center,’ which is an ambiguous blob-like thing that exists only in the minds of Democratic strategists whose brains stopped working in the 1990s.

This is the subtitle, yes its satire

I think the argument is simple because the general reporting on AI hasn’t even met that bar. It’s little more than breathless repetition of advertising copy. There are basic questions that aren’t getting asked. It’s a computer program. Why should this program be treated as potentially sentient when others aren’t? Because its complicated, complex? Ok (seems convenient, but ok) …except you can very easily make a complicated, complex program in the same way only train it to spit out absolute useless noise, and neither the program or the hardware have a preference for one or the other.

this was from a few months ago, right?

I was thinking earlier that a lot of other software users could stand to be more entitled and demanding in the way gamers are.

Sorta in the way whole reddit threads of users will pester devs to meet 60 fps optimization, but for like the battery usage of common apps. Amazon has a widely used text-file reader and audio player, and they’re both battery hogging dogshit (on top of Steam-style near-monopoly on digital publishing). Worse its ever been done. More people should be entitled and obnoxious about that.

I think if you sucked in your cheeks, then forcefully exhaled out a deep lungfull, you could impart momentum to your tongue. Probably also swing your head forward

I have no outside basis to believe it, but I believe this anyway: It’s a learned behavior. I don’t think it’s something you should worry about, plenty of people don’t. You still have the same interiority as everyone else. Just never fell into that pattern of behavior.

Meditation often talks about “quieting” the inner monologue. I’ve tried sporadically (whenever I actually remember it, really) and for me it feels… like un-clenching a muscle that you’ve held clenched all your life. It’s at once relaxing and difficult, because that “muscle” will just clench back up - the monologue starts rambling - at the first moment I stop actively trying to “quiet” it. I get the sense that if I stuck to it and was stubborn, I’d eventually be able to quiet it without actively trying.

sorry for making the most low-hanging joke, but when I saw nobody else had, I could not resist

When you have Pizza Hut

When you have Pizza Hut

machine god true believer

the man who payrolled The Expanse adaptation did not understand a damn thing that happened in The Expanse

Half the calls I get are “well the website said this”

oh, did our website say that? Or did the search page say that? Because I have a pretty damn good idea of what our website does and doesn’t say

Shocker.

Canadians love acting like they’re soooo different from yankees, but look at every policy decision they’ve ever made and what do you know, marching lockstep with Washington. At least yanks don’t pretend being polite makes it all hunky dory.

It’s a good lesson, yeah.

It’s also a good demonstration of how privilege can be leveraged. The conversation can’t just stop after we’ve correctly identified and acknowledged a social injustice. There are ways to utilize privilege to help each other, and to directly challenge the very system that creates it. These French activists did that - they put their government in a position where they either have to acknowledge something they don’t want to acknowledge – or ignore this happening to their citizens, effectively revoke the privileges these activists are trying to lean on, in an attempt to appease Israel. In this case, the French government felt it had to save face on the international stage… but you also can’t rely on privileges.

Institutions will only go so far. Push enough, and the structural benefits will suddenly be revoked. That’s also a good thing, because when it happens, you learn what the ruling class will and won’t compromise on. And it’s a great propaganda tool. Point to it and say to others, “your status, your comfort is conditional”

If I understand correctly, it allows them to transfer arms and funds to Israel without creating a paper trail, hiding it all in the pentagon’s budget.

It also shreds the (transparent, non-existent) fig leaf of plausible deniability the US might have otherwise claimed.

this will have to suffice until the next page of Gabital

there’s a jubilee out there, where the waves beckon

Later, after leaving the agency, Kennedy was introduced at Burning Man to Robert F. Kennedy III, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s eldest son and a grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, via a mutual friend. The two married on Cape Cod in 2018, and have two children together.

At this point, I really shouldn’t be surprised by this.