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If I understood how mirrors worked probably

There’s another version of me that lives in my bathroom and they brush their teeth at the same time as me, can someone help me figure out why they’re choosing to copy me

They’re anthropomorphizing the trick-you-into-anthropomorphizing-it machine

They hanged the people who got us the 8-hour workday.

one thing i like about cats is their concerned little faces. what are they so worried about anyway? it seems like they're doing okay most of the time, objectively

New career path: Telling everyone that I use generative AI for everything (and then just half-assing it with my own brain) so people I don’t respect throw piles of money at me and are cool with the final product being bad.

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Fav prospective voter I met while canvassing for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !!

Even if the worst comes to the worst, unless we're all dead, there's always an "and then." And that "and then" is the rest of our lives, our kids' lives, our grandkids' lives.

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I had signed up for a canvas and couldn’t go, but I’m gonna try again tomorrow and at least phonebank, early voting demographics are slightly worrying

Y’all I’m so serious everyone has to get out and outvote the racist old farts who are gonna fall for this

The only solace to take from this is people’s hearts are more productive than their minds a lot of the time? Like goddamn we’re fucking up *bad* and so removed from reality (privileged folks of all varieties especially), but most ppl at least want good things?

@borosboss.bsky.social some anecdotal data on whether I’m a library enjoyer for ya ;)

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Oh my god we're finally going to get winrate data for Library of Alexandria. I've been mystified by the question "is this card still good in cube?" for about 10 years

This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.

Voter turnout surges in NYC mayor’s race, with Boomers and Gen X leading the charge The data so far is good news for independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, a political scientist said.

i hate to be that bitch, but my sources are telling me this early voting data has gotten Zohran's people rightly spooked and y'all better stop assuming this one's in the bag. GOTV

Two humorous social media posts about cats believing their owners can control nature, like rain and sunlight. Transcribed Text: Feline_Tales My cats have this meow that means “please come with me to fix this” after which they’ll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or ‘empty’) food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the ‘problem’, they look back at me, clear message. What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my ‘power.’ I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me... the rain. “Please fix this” they say. “Please get rid of the wet” “Silly kitty,” I say, “I can’t control the rain.” I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain. purrfect_logic I hope this is a universal cat owner experience. Every single night he begs me to turn the sun back on so he can watch birds on the balcony. I tell him no, I cannot do that. But I can turn lights on and off in the house and he’s fairly certain I’m just not applying myself properly here.

Magic has always been a game that excelled at showcasing *worlds* and not characters, I think this is a big source of complaint about "story" from some, but it shows that ATLA has a much more interesting world for a tcg to play in than, say, NYC.

2-1 without any power that's how we make our bread

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Nonetheless, we believe the things we've built, that have strikingly similar properties to ELIZA, "have it", "are intelligent", "are conscious". This is in my view leading to a lot of wildly wrong thinking about a powerful, but still fundamentally limited technology

There is a widespread belief among people working in what we call "AI" (machine learning and large language models) that "AGI", "artificial general intelligence" is about to be built.

We have no working model whatsoever of intelligence or consciousness whatsoever. It is completely undefined

ELIZA - Wikipedia

It was discovered a long time ago that humans will anthropomorphize (assign intelligence/consciousness to) even very simple computer programs designed to mimic natural language/conversation!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

The first sentence of a press release of a major company talking about "before AGI arrives" it's a literal doomsday belief