Camille is right. Why so many women are begging to be treated like children, I have no idea. I think they don’t understand that it does not work selectively, as they wish it did. What will end up happening is that women will be treated like children everywhere.
Since so many are asking for that, perhaps we should grant them that outcome. It’d look a lot like Iran, though.
One could also accurately say this:
“If you had enough resources, you could run a human brain on a wooden system of gears and diesel power. It would be massive, but watching the cells and neurotransmitters move, it would be evident that the outputs are not the result of a mind. Part of the illusion of human thought is the tiny scale of neurons.”
What is going on here? Do the doofs not realize how clownish this all sounds?
By the way, this is nearly word for word Leibniz’s mill argument from the Monadology. Except this person of course would not know that. There, ol’ Leibniz imagined a thinking machine enlarged to the size of a mill. However, the same thought experiment works for your own brain. If you enlarged that to the size a mill (or a city), all you’d see is ion channels pumping and some flashes of electricity. There would be no thought or reasoning visible anywhere; just organic mechanism.
Try as you might, you still would not find that damn pesky ghost. And that’s because it’s nowhere to be found.
At this point, hating AI is about like hating a hammer or a saw.
What are these clowns even thinking? (They aren’t.)
In my galactic empire, any programmer who believes a microsecond is “not that much different” than a millisecond is working in the Helium 3 minutes for eternity.
I’d straight up murder any motherfucker who tried to make me go back to childhood.
Hell no.
SHOCKING!
Ok, not really. It’s just the everyone is a hypocrite in dating. Women pretend not to be harder, but they are too. In some ways more so.
Especially since the frontier models could design a doomsday virus right fucking now if they were not restricted from doing so.
I fell victim to the jury duty scam.
I know I keep writing about this, but how does anyone fall for this shit? This is why it is worth learning about how civil and legal institutions actually work.
If someone called me with this crap, I’d laugh and hang up. Come on, just nothing at all operates this way. Some of the people almost deserve to be scammed for being so clownish.
The Great American Property Tax Freak Out by David Schleicher.
I am not against property taxes, per se, but it does feel very odd that we have to “rent” our own house from the government for ~$800 per month.
There is no way in hell that we are getting $800 in services in return for that. The roads here are terrible. Homeless people wander all over. The government is generally atrocious. I don’t know about the school quality, and I don’t begrudge funding schools at all.
But we get maybe $100 worth of benefit each month and pay eight times that. Sure, we have money, we can pay it. Whatever.
And yes, I understand all the arguments for property taxes, Georgism, etc. The problem is not lack of understanding; it is realizing that you pay vast amounts to a government that seems to do very little. And that’s the same government that could and would kick you out of your home if you stopped forking over.
But in human society those with the most guns make the rules. We can pretty it up but that’s basically how it works.
Like a lot of modern women, she’s waiting for fantasy man she is very, very unlikely to be able to attract or have other than as a one night stand.
She looks ok, seems somewhat on the dumb side of average, but would’ve done fine 80 years ago. Most likely she would’ve ended up with some guy roughly her socieconomic status and appearance. As the first commenter points out, she thinks she deserves Chris Hemsworth and is holding out for that. But she’ll be holding out forever. That’s her prerogative, though. People are allowed to do dreadfully stupid things and think thoughts that are impossible to match up to reality.
People talk about the manosphere. In reality, women’s mental health and possibility of flourishing was utterly destroyed by social media and smartphones. She is the perfect example. It’s far more likely that she would’ve been happier in another timeline sans social media and phones.
I feel pity for her. She’ll always be yearning for something she’ll never have. And that is a terrible way to feel and I’m sorry that society did that to her.
Too tired to go into detail now, but people like Claire really, really want there to be some ghost in the machine.
But there just is not. It is simply not there. Wishful thinking doesn’t make it appear. The expanded Church-Turing Thesis is basically correct. There is nothing any more or less special about an LLM or a human in that sense than there is between a fish and submarine.
Both move through the water; both think.
(Also, I find Claire’s position deeply moronic and her metaphor not just wrong, but not even wrong.)
Why the hell do so many lefty people (not just Fat Acceptance nutters) refer to their body like it’s not really a part of them? What in the world is going on there?
They’re always saying things like “this body” and “take my body to bed.” WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? It’s you. Trust me, it’s all you. I’m guessing this strange way of referring to one’s self is a result of the spread of therapy language and culture, but I am not quite certain.
However, I think Nietzsche said it best about this nonsense: “Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.”
When I say there is AI in something, the doofuses come out of the woodwork to screech about, “That is impossible! There is no LLM in that!”
An LLM is only one variant of artificial intelligence. There are many others1.
I was playing with and using AI of various types when most of you were still taking dumps in your diapers.
Younger Millennials and Gen Z for some dumbass reason believe every interpersonal relationship is always and only about power. They’ve applied James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State to their own friends, paramours and even family. It’s absolutely fucking insane but that is what has occurred.
That they think this approach is correct and is a good thing is what is particularly bothersome.
I don’t know about those grand themes. I’m more of a fate is what you make or build; the grand themes are constructed and the leitmotif is what you choose to play, not what was always going to be performed.
But in the main, I agree. The actually-conservative degrowther “progressives” and the Tardkowskies need to be smacked down, and hard.
We have a galaxy to conquer.