Inert

Israel is the only country I’ve ever been to where women who were strangers to me would come up to me and talk to me in the street and in cafรฉs. I wonder what exactly makes that place so different?

It was a welcome change, I have to say. It shows women do not “have to be” the way they think is necessary. Much is just inertia (also true of men).

What Determines

Saying AI is “deterministic” to supposedly prove it’s not really thinking and/or conscious is counterproductive to that case in the extreme as in fact your own brain is deterministic in the same way and for the same reasons. That’s because every action that matters in both cases has a cause. That is to say, there is nothing uncaused by prior events and effects.

This is not controversial. It’s just how the universe works. If you want to say something consequential and that is not clownish, you must actually examine the problem space and not resort to meaningless platitudes that reveal only your lack of insight.

People who have become “expert” philosophers overnight because AI scares them are amusing. Worthless and banal, too, of course. But also briefly entertaining in the way that a kitten that is attempting but failing to jump onto a couch is.

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Cat Burns – Is It That Deep?

The song is good, but those dancers are fuckin’ great. So natural1 and graceful. Cat is not a bad dancer at all but observe the world of difference; she just does not move at all like they do. The professional dancers have a certain intention and economy of motion that only exists in people who’ve been dancing since they were five years old that non-pros just will never have.

  1. By which, I mean it takes thousands and thousands of hours of practice to dance like that.