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  • 🤏🤏🤏

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  • There's probably some simple trick they are missing. I never have any trouble getting hit by big ships, and I never even learned how to sail.

  • I feel used, and not in a good way...

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  • At the least it would be nice if there were a swing in consumerism towards AI-free simple products that just do that one thing we bought them for. And are advertised as such. Somehow I doubt it though. Looking at Lemmy it looks like that's what people want, but I fear that may be a small bubble in a big sea of idiocy.

  • :|

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  • Some of the narrative in the gospels is concerned with fulfilling the prophesies of Isaiah, since that would build a case for Jesus being the Messiah, which was something people were interested in at the time.

    Isaiah didn't clearly prophesy a virgin birth, but the writers of Matthew and Luke were probably working from the Septuagint, a greek [mis-]translation which turns the prophecy into one of a virgin birth. So, thinking that a virgin birth was required, they wrote it into the story.

    The question of whether someone claiming to be made pregnant by God is making a plausible claim, is fairly moot when the whole episode was probably made up anyway.

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  • It's an important part of fascism. The idea of objective truth is devalued, so that truth comes from authority. It doesn't matter what evidence exists, or if this week's reality is consistent with last week or even itself. The point is to sell the narrative on an emotional level.

    What I'm saying is that this isn't some cultural phenomenon that just happened. It's organised and intentional.

  • Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI

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  • I thought you were kidding but I just had to know lol. Like to make a case for Papyrus being racist you'd firstly have to say who it's being racist towards, and it's just a bit... vague... for that. Na'vi maybe?

  • Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI

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  • OK I love that fonts stir up such strong feelings in people... but racist? How tf is papyrus racist?

  • Shift blame

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  • When you've eliminated all other possibilities, it must be the user that's at fault

  • Sometimes the Onion just prints the cold, hard truth.

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  • That's fine for Mad Max style extended chases where you want to board other vehicles, but in a head-on collision a wedge is going to win every time. Taller vehicles are just easier to flip.

  • Santa is working on those lists

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  • He's going to find out who's naughty and nice

  • Sometimes the Onion just prints the cold, hard truth.

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  • We need to see more cars with a wedge shape, extremely tough body, and explosive flipping mechanism.

  • Living language

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  • You sound like you consider all linguistic evolution to be a bad thing. I'm not saying there shouldn't be opposition to change, indeed opposition helps to filter out pointless change, while worthwhile change will tend to overcome that opposition. So go ahead and be that opposition if you will, but it just seems like a limited perspective to me.

    It reminds me of my English teachers at school who impressed upon me that it's incorrect to use the pronouns "they/them" in a singular, non-gender-specific context. So you had to go with the traditional but sexist "he" or an awkwardly pseudo-random distribution of "he" and "she", despite the fact that "they" was in common use colloquially. Perhaps my teachers' fervent opposition was only fueled by the fact that it was a language problem which popular usage had already solved. They were fighting a valiant rearguard action against common sense, and I'm glad they lost.

  • With all those American attacks on European unity and identity, it's about time to ditch all those crappy clothes with American flags on it, and start wearing EUROPEAN flags. #EuropeTogether🇪🇺💪

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  • Still, I think that what you often see in Europe is almost complete indifference to European identity, and there's a huge amount of middle ground between that and the ludicrously excessive blind nationalism that you see in the USA. I personally think it would be a good thing if we embraced an identity as Europeans a little more. Being proud of European identity, and even waving a flag once in a while, isn't a bad thing. Patriotism gives you something to fight for. A common identity is needed for people to achieve more collectively. The important thing is to not be blind or arrogant. You have to base that identity on reality, and work to make sure that identity stands for something good, rather than assuming it will automatically be so. Too much success and empire building causes rot to set in, but the EU is uniquely positioned to be a post-imperial entity. What comes after empire building is up to us.

  • Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job

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  • Nah, you're thinking of a hundred-plus-million dollar company. Being understaffed and disastrously managed is about right for a million dollar company.

  • Gravity!

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  • I'm sorry my mind is stuck on

    If gravity is not strong enough to stop a small stream from flowing to its lowest point

    I mean... what...

  • Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive

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  • So I can outnumber my enemies

  • Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes

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  • Untying a snake just makes it more effective at snakery

  • Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive

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  • I just don’t think this is a problem in the current stage of technological development. Modern AI is a cute little magic act, but humans (collectively) are very good at piercing the veil and then spreading around the discrepancies they’ve discovered.

    In its current stage, no. But it's come a long way in a short time, and I don't think we're so far from having machines that pass the Turing test 100%. But rather than being a proof of consciousness, all this really shows is that you can't judge consciousness from the outside looking in. We know it's a big illusion just because its entire development has been focused on building that illusion. When it says it feels something, or cares deeply about something, it's saying that because that's the kind of thing a human would say.

    Because all the development has been focused on fakery rather than understanding and replicating consciousness, we're close to the point where we can have a fake consciousness that would fool anyone. It's a worrying prospect, and not just because I won't become immortal by having a machine imitate my behaviour. There's bad actors working to exploit this situation. Elon Musk's attempts to turn Grok into his own personally controlled overseer of truth and narrative seem to backfire in the most comical ways, but that's teething troubles, and in time this will turn into a very subtle and pervasive problem for humankind. The intrinsic fakeness of it is a concerning aspect. It's like we're getting a puppet show version of what AI could have been.

  • Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive

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  • Well, that's why we need clones with mind transfer, and to be unconscious during the process. When you wake up you won't know whether you're the original or the copy so why worry

  • Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive

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  • People used to talk about the idea of uploading your consciousness to a computer to achieve immortality. But nowadays I don't think anyone would trust it. You could tell me my consciousness was uploaded and show me a version of me that was indistinguishable from myself in every way, but I still wouldn't believe it experiences or feels anything as I do, even though it claims to do so. Especially if it's based on an LLM, since they are superficial imitations by design.

  • To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your most worthy ones for rating in the comments

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  • Obviously anything by Mariah Carey would be a contender but I stand by my assertion