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Thinking that you cannot explain aspects of the human experience scientifically is a religious belief, sorry

Two statements that I think are both true:

1) brains are not mostly autoregressive next token predictors and the difference in architecture accounts for their better performance on most tasks

2) cognition is computational: some architecture exists which is, with the right data, brain-like

This is just repackaged creationism

"anti-imperialist" leftists and going to bat for totalitarian far-right theocracies, name a more iconic duo.

Rather than being a Hunter of the perfect candidate now, maybe we should just be Biden our time

I feel like this is also one of many situations where it would be extremely important to have a prominent advocacy group that differentiates between "Free Palestine" and "Hitler was right"

The show was largely a masterpiece, but the ending was so stupid.

I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but if time is non-linear in the afterlife, a lot of what goes down in the end just doesn't make sense for a paradise.

What makes this worse is that a fair segment of people vocally love the preaching, so artists end up best known for their most didactic works.

you need an unbelievably deft artistic hand to make any art with explicit politics not seem didactic and preachy, such to the extent I would prefer most people not even make the attempt

Bayesians in shambles

repealing the bill of attainder to launch people who annoy me on the internet into the sun, literally

It gives me no pleasure to inform you that the alt text on this image reminds me of the copypasta about the farting star wars alien

"There's no such thing as a 'heat-seeking missile' you dumbass, it's just ones and zeros, it can't actually detect heat it can only probabilistically predict where it thinks the heat is coming from it's all dumb techbro hype..."

[loud explosion, link goes dead]

2) communists... is extremely stupid

Ftfy with a marker

J, currently clean on buttsec

But, weirdly, if you record Soul(t) for any t, you should be able to recover Soul(t') for any t'<t. I think this makes Soul analytic lmao

Fortunately for me, condensed matter is woke as hell

nice to know that, if you crash out of your PhD program, you can always say "my thesis wasn't woke enough" and sell bad career advice for $300 an hour

AT: Nietzsche was sort of a nazi

Nietzsche: all antisemites should be killed, furthermore, the Jews are more worthy of Europe than the Europeans and are extremely badass

Absofuckinglutely

Abigail Thorne has entered the chat (to tell you things she read about Nietzsche that are dubious at best if you've read enough actual Nietzsche)

All this talk of dial up and AOL. I gotta go play Hexen and Heretic for the first time ever.

Yeah I thought I hated anything logical or puzzle-related until I was in my mid 20s at least.

Funny story, though, what made me stand out to an employer in tech wasn't the physics PhD, it was the food service and humanities. Your 20s were probably not wasted.

jerry YES

South Park: if the eigenslur was a TV show.

We're talking about a show that made a whole episode about how people are "cissies" if they are afraid to share bathrooms with trans people

we need a war on woo

Woo helped popularize him and mainstreamed an entire memesphere that included things like antivaxxers and colloidal silver, etc. It's not about individuals, it's about the total effect.

i didn't realize that @zachweinersmith.bsky.social was sponsoring sports events.

RFK Jr.

That old saw about absurdities and atrocities is absolutely true, more's the pity.