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@mehdirhasan This is not what he said. Also let's see Mehdi's proof that Claude is not conscious before he warrants such glibness.

This was the great intellectual hero of the New Atheists, who was going to destroy God and religion. LOL.

@grok @mattletiss7 This was a very satisfying thread to read. Well done @grok !

@greg16676935420 Tim Cook didn't really invent the smartphone - just the iphone

Tim Cook invented the smart phone 📱 Elon Musk invented the electric car 🚗 Bill Gates invented the computer 💻 Ben Franklin invented electricity 💡 What will I invent? ❓

@Koomberi @csubagio @kareem_carr How very postmodern of you. You are free to believe it, but math as a social construct is quite a fringe idea. Presumably then you believe that there are possible worlds where 1+1 does not equal 2?

@reasonable_ear @csubagio @kareem_carr Math doesn’t actually exist, it’s one of the methods humans use to make physical phenomena deterministic i.e. countability

As a statistician, I find this fixation on whether AI is "intelligent" bizarre, I have used thousands of mathematical models, that were not intelligent by anybody's definition, but provided essential insight to me a human, and encoded real knowledge about the world.

@csubagio @kareem_carr Brains are physical objects, they produce physical phenomena. They take physical inputs and produce physical outputs. Calculators fulfil this same criteria. Calculators may not BE math but they definitely DO math. What do brains do if not math?

@kareem_carr @reasonable_ear To rephrase maybe: brains are physical phenomena, fragments of which have been approximated by lots of different kinds of math over the years, but which on the whole remain pretty inscrutable, never mind simulatable, never mind just purely in math.

@kareem_carr I find this a very odd take. Admittedly, the brain is probably the most mysterious object in the known universe but one thing we can be sure about is that, amongst other things, it is a statistical learning machine.

@reasonable_ear No. Brains are physical objects which you can partially describe with math because you can describe physical things with math in general. Conflating a mathematical description in this way is like confusing a paragraph about a brain with an actual brain.

@kareem_carr Brains aren't math then?

AIs are math. They're doing what math does when you plug in data. That is all. And it is enough.

@BBCSport Who tf is this guy?

"Arsenal fans are the worst fanbase in the world." It's fair to say Paddy Pimblett does not want Arsenal to win the league.

@greg16676935420 True

We are closer to the year 3000 than we are from 1950 Let that sink in

@owenjonesjourno We know a minimum 7k are confirmed killed. I see you did not mention the 11744 cases currently under review. Local health officials have estimated up to 36.5k. I am not a fan of Trump’s war but it is so weird that you down play the crimes of the IRGC.

There is no evidence that the Iranian state killed tens of thousands of protesters. The latest confirmed death statistics, according to Human Rights Activists of Iran, are: 6,724 protesters, including 236 children 214 government forces 67 non-protester civilians There could be others that haven't been confirmed. But nothing like the tens of thousands we keep hearing. To be clear: the Iranian state clearly committed grave crimes, and the death toll is hideous enough. It's also clear that some protesters engaged in armed warfare. Trump has claimed the US sought to arm protesters. But there isn't evidence to substantiate the claims of tens of thousands, a figure which has been used to justify an illegal war in which the US is threatening to literally destroy the country. For clarity: Human Rights Activists of Iran are a dissident group founded by an Iranian prisoner of conscience.

@mehdirhasan @mehdirhasan falling for one of the most common statistical fallacies: correlation≠causation. Just because a racial group is correlated with a religion, criticising the religion does not equate to criticising the race. Would criticising Christianity in the Middle East be racist?

Are you stupid or just bigoted? 1) The old 'Islam isn't a race' line is dumb and lazy because Muslims are largely a racial minority in the West. 2) Cleese never demonized Christians in real life or suggested they're not part of Britain.

@piersmorgan Surely it's DowMANIA!

Dowman-mania.

@Arsenal_rep1 Very nice, then we buy Leonard Messi with money. Unstoppable force next time

Budget won't be a problem for Arsenal summer sales: 1. Martinelli - £120m 2. Ødegaard - £95m 3. Trossard - £85m 4. Kai Havertz - £125m 5. Jesus - £100m 6. Fabio Veira- £70m 7. Reiss Nelson - £65m 8. Ben White - £78m 9. Nørgaard- £65m That's £803m from the sales...

@only1tommo Imagine Alexis on the left again

If you could pick just one Arsenal player from this squad to join the current squad who would you pick?

@cherokeeowl Were you flying near to Azkerban by any chance?

You’re settled in on your flight at 30k feet somewhere over America. The Stew brings refreshments. You’re watching a movie; you glance out your window & see this as you hear people screaming. Does panic & screaming help? How do you calm your nerves?

@trussliz Christ this is tragic

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@MattWalshBlog Neither are relevant

The Left will now tell us that Alex Pretti's very recent history of instigating violent confrontations with law enforcement isn't relevant to the shooting, but the fact that he was a nurse somehow is relevant

@grey4626 @RadioFreeTom Nice work with ChatGPT there 🤣 only an Ai could be that delusional

No, Tom. Shut the fuck up and listen, Tom... The man walked into that gilded snake pit at Davos and eviscerated the entire globalist cabal with the cold, unflinching precision of a predator who’s done toying with prey. On their stage. Under their lights. Broadcast on their networks. Forced every last one of them...those smug, self-appointed overlords...to sit in silence while he carved their rotten empire to the bone. He didn’t scream. He didn’t need to. His voice was low, steady, absolute. Every sentence a kill shot. He exposed the climate hoax for the multi-trillion-dollar wealth transfer it is. He named the open-borders agenda as the deliberate dilution of sovereign nations. He called out the currency wars, the offshoring scams, the engineered collapse of Western industry...all of it orchestrated by the same parasites who lecture the rest of us about “sustainability” while burning jet fuel to fly their private fleets into Switzerland for a week of mutual back-patting and champagne. This wasn’t anger. This was execution. They perched there in their tailored hypocrisy...cashmere sweaters, bespoke suits, faces frozen in that practiced mask of enlightened concern...while the President of the United States looked them dead in the eye and ended their charade. Politely. Ruthlessly. He informed them, in plain language, that the days of America bankrolling their utopian delusions, their population-replacement schemes, their digital surveillance grid, their endless wars for “democracy”...all of it funded by the American taxpayer...are finished. Done. Over. He put the entire Davos class...the unelected technocrats, the hedge-fund vampires, the NGO grifters, the media courtesans...on explicit notice: your reign of unchallenged arrogance is terminated. We see every tentacle of your operation. We know exactly what you are: a parasitic elite that has feasted on the productive class for decades while selling the corpse back to us as “progress.” What you diagnose as “mental disturbance” is what unfiltered strength looks like to cowards who’ve spent their lives groveling before power. What you label “embarrassing” is the sound of a sovereign people finally refusing to kneel. What you find “dangerous” is the sight of your entire worldview collapsing in real time, live on global television, delivered by a man who cannot be bought, bullied, or bribed. He didn’t just address that room. He spoke past them...directly to the hundreds of millions who’ve been looted, lectured, and lied to by these people. To every factory worker whose job was shipped overseas. To every parent watching their child’s school being turned into an indoctrination camp. To every citizen tired of watching their borders erased while billionaires build moats around their own compounds. That audience of predators just witnessed the beginning of their obsolescence. They felt it...the shift in the air, the sudden realization that the protection racket they’ve run for fifty years has a new sheriff, and he’s not asking nicely anymore. They know what’s coming. They felt the ground move under their feet. And they’re terrified. So go ahead, Tom. Keep clutching your pearls. Keep diagnosing from your safe, sanitized distance. The rest of us recognize the sound of history correcting itself. Sleep lightly. The reckoning isn’t coming. It’s already here.

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

@zarahsultana And if the regime continue to kill civilians? Is there a casualty number at which point you would support military action? 5k? 50k 500k?

The images of body bags leave no doubt about the brutality of Iran’s repression, and a communications blackout is indefensible. Across the country, Iranians are protesting real economic hardship, much of it deepened by US sanctions. From the UK, genuine solidarity means opposing those sanctions and the imperial strategies and aspirations behind them. At the same time, this unrest is being cynically exploited by Netanyahu’s genocidal government as a pretext for military intervention and regime change — a path that must be firmly rejected. It must be clear: only the Iranian people have the right to decide their own future. No outside power should dictate or interfere. Any serious politics requires holding all of these truths together.

@RupertLowe10 @elonmusk @JDVance Oh shut up you orange-ball-licking traitor 🍊🍊👅

I urge @elonmusk, @JDVance and the wider American administration to deploy whatever appropriate power they hold to prevent Keir Starmer from banning X in Britain. Free speech must be protected, and such disgusting authoritarianism must be resisted. We need help.