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i honestly just never considered different persons having a different feeling much at all, strangely enough. you can do a very personal/unreliable narrator in third person, it's fully possible

while i don't think any robots currently breathe, and indeed I don't think we'll ever need robots that breathe, any argument of the form "no because they can't by definition" is automatically something that makes me go "Ack!"

idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet

Yeah, I think I agree with that, capabilities already look like they're plateauing pretty bad, which I'm... relieved by? it's already filling the internet with slop and convincing people to die, best not convince people it's actually good on top of that

Like, arguments against this tend to be:

1. Anything that isn't sapient now will never be (this is, like, evolution denial?)
2. Only biological systems can become sapient (you can't just say that, propose a mechanism, jeez)
3. Actually the spark of divinity is what gives us sapience (...)

So glad that being against AI has brought out the dualist spiritualism in all of us.

I don't think any modern AIs are even close, and I'm skeptical the current technologies can do it, but most "computers can never become sentient" takes are unsound and I have not changed my mind on this since 2013

first of all it's not sugar it's like some other shit. plus scientist don't even know the ramifications of

Full of fail.

Uuugh, this bothers me so much. I can still advocate for higher car safety without saying I don't like public transport. I use public transport exclusively! I moved to a city center expressly for that! But that doesn't mean I can now stop thinking about cars forever, that's just head-in-sanding

this is, like, 80% of the pitch for generative AI. "liberating art" or whatever, because of course art is when you have a product in front of you that you're responsible in some way for

Yes, I think just unlocking new *starts* is very different from unlocking other things, especially when death doesn't actually factor in (i.e. you have to do something in-game to unlock it, you can die or live after and it doesn't matter, you already have)

i can't consider that to be one because e.g. tales of maj'eyal has unlocks but it's also a top-down ASCII permadeath turn-based RPG that uses heavy procgen where enemies have the same capabilities as you, i.e. a traditional roguelike in every way except that one

it reminds me of NFTs lol

Putnam @Putnam3145 Aug 19, 2019 twitter please stop trying to be a platform for discussion. you are not a platform for discussion. this place's literal basic design is ANATHEMA to discussion. it's pessimal for purposes of discussion. it's the actual, mathematically worst possible design. i cannot emphasize enou (The tweet actually ended by cutting off "enough".)

i've been complaining about this for years and they're still trying

I always kinda wonder if the fact that my first step for troubleshooting with DF is always "okay but what *really* happened" rubs anyone the wrong way. I'm not *worried* it but I do wonder

the reason he did for it is extremely funny too. "oh turns out i didn't know this basic fact about orbital mechanics". apparently he had literally never heard about a transfer window. this is the genius leading space flight

i loved that his reason for changing his mind was learning an extremely basic fact about space travel that you learn as trivia in children's books

like, it literally doesn't matter what your personal politics are, the so-called capitalists are ignoring the things their own damn system proposes. Tell them this! Tell them they're anti-capitalist! They have no rebuttal to this! They haven't read Smith!

the really funny thing about all this is that they're kind of pissing on capitalism's grave but nobody seems to want to frame it that way. a trade can be mutually beneficial! it's not true that one party has to lose! that's the insight that brought us here! the mercantilist tariffs also ignore this.

30%? that's how much of a million is compared to a trillion. you taught me that!

it's actually a thing from the *later* games, I'm pretty sure? I don't think it was a thing in Daggerfall necessarily (nor were the dwarves being elves) but it was certainly a thing in Redguard

you can reach a million dollars by making a cool video game once

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look all i'm saying is that every gif on this page is applicable to LLM brainrot

as we have learned, nuclear/coal/gas are perfectly reliable, especially in very cold weather. ask any texan

i still can't believe that all it took for LLMs to break peoples' brains en masse was to make them obsequious. people just getting absolutely one-shot by unerring politeness and agreement. if it were in a novel i would call it cynical to the point of being cringe

for the record here's the post regarding "removing manually created ones" support.google.com/youtube/thre...

this was a few days after they actually did it and people reported it as "removing custom captions" and "custom" just meant "manual" to most people so the reporting spiraled like hell

whose idea was it to have video both autoplay and muted by default. somehow they found something worse than autoplay already is

wild yeast is yeast and thus does not count as "without any yeast", the post literally specifically brings up the example of a pile of rotting fruit becoming alcoholic, which is a wild yeast process

I definitely saw it in high school... surely you can find it somewhere

i think my constant slander on era might actually be paying off (<also loves metroid fusion)