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Bull Sh!t, My sister passed away, you want to charge a cancellation fee. Scum sucking bottom feeders. 🤯

@vitrupo Which was more important to humankind's survival, knowing the difference between a snake & a twig (language of imagery), how many snakes/acre (language of math) or how to spell snake (verbal language)? 🤯

Chris Manning says Yann LeCun sees language as a low bandwidth communication channel compared to vision. But the gap between a chimp and a human wasn’t produced by superior eyes. What took off for humans was language. Not just for communication, but as a cognitive tool.

@vitrupo Information from its roots means putting form into function. The form is language, the function is communication. There are different langauges, vision uses the language of imagery, speech uses the verbal language. Content is everything.

@muellerberndt If the best they can come up for an ROI is #surveillancepricing they are in big trouble. 🤯

Our small team has worked hard on refining the novel observer-based fundamental theory of Physics, OPH, over the past 3 months. Still way to go, but we already derive most of existing Physics and parts of the particle spectrum. @muellerberndt/observers-are-all-you-need-how-observer-synchronization-creates-all-of-physics-8ebb7e9783e7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@muellerberndt…

@Jason Here’s the truth, @Jason: We have not reached AGI. We are not even close to reaching AGI. And moreover, you and your techbros who think we are there have a profoundly sad shallow understanding of what it means to be human.

The healthy man would rather have a friend than a servant, rather have a worthy opponent than an enemy.

🚨Do you understand the irony of what just happened.. the FBI spent two years investigating Hillary Clinton for using a personal email for government work.. it dominated every news cycle.. it decided an election.. "lock her up.." the man they put in charge of the FBI.. just got his personal email hacked by Iran.. the DOJ confirmed it.. Iran-linked group "Handala" breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and got his data.. think about the timing.. America has fired 850 Tomahawk missiles at Iran this month.. spent billions.. and Iran didn't fire back with a missile.. they walked through the front door of the FBI.. and here's what nobody wants to say out loud.. the FBI Director was using a personal email in the first place.. the same thing the FBI called a national security threat when Hillary did it.. the agency that decides what's a crime.. doesn't follow its own rules.. The rules only apply until you're the one making them.

Here’s ICE being chased by the residents of Los Angeles.

@Grady_Booch Machine intelligence is signal based and can be expressed as an algorithm. Human intelligence is information based and cannot be expressed by an alogrithm. 🤯

Indeed. In the first ages of AI, writing a program to play checkers or chess or Jeopardy or Go was seen as an analog to human intelligence. In this current age, language is the proxy for human intelligence. Both yielded interesting results; both have vastly misunderstood the exquisite and messy nature of human intelligence, consciousness, and sentience.

China is using folding mobile photovoltaic power stations, long strips of solar panels that unfold to quickly generate electricity, bringing clean power to construction sites, disaster zones, and remote areas.

@AnnieForTruth It's caled a Kakistocracy. 🤯

This is 💯 correct. Trump appointed only loyalists, ‘yes’ people & sycophants who would never question or pushback on his crazy & dangerous decisions. Now we have an administration filled with unqualified, incompetent, inexperienced clowns who are clueless & putting us in danger

Machine intelligence is signal based and can be expressed as an algorithm. Human intelligence is information based and cannot be expressed by an alogrithm.

@painterseleven 👍☺️You disappeared from my time line for a while. Good to see you back.

Aeroponic towers are a vertical farming technique that suspends plant roots in air and mists them with nutrients, achieving up to 90% water savings and triple growth speed compared to soil-based methods.

@RCdeWinter Back at you. ☺️

@Gazorble 👍😎

As I've grown older (but refused to grow up) I've discovered: ONE- I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it. TWO- My wild oats have turned into prunes and All Bran. THREE- I finally got my head together; now my body is falling apart. FOUR- Funny, I don't remember being absent minded... FIVE- All reports are in; life is now officially unfair. SIX- If all is not lost, where is it? SEVEN- It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser. EIGHT- Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant. NINE- I wish the buck stopped here; I sure could use a few. TEN- Kids in the back seat cause accidents. ELEVEN- Accidents in the back seat cause kids. TWELVE- It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere. THIRTEEN- The only time the world beats a path to your door is when you're in the bathroom. FOURTEEN- If God wanted me to touch my toes he would have put them on my knees. FIFTEEN- When I'm finally holding all the cards, why does everyone decide to play chess? SIXTEEN- It's not hard to meet expenses...they're everywhere. SEVENTEEN- The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. EIGHTEEN- These days I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter... I go somewhere to get something and then wonder what I'm here after.

@donalddhoffman My understanding of Advaita Vedanta; There is one absolute Truth - LIGHT. Two manifestations, Nature & Consciousness. Consciousness the observer, Nature the observed. Send/receive process appears with biological structure as the embodied mind. How the Universe knows itself.

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” Max Planck, 1931, The Observer

I'm pretty sure everyone at my company saw this article and now they all think we're in an AI crisis. We're not in an AI crisis. We use Claude to summarize Slack threads. But here's what's actually interesting: this whole panic reveals something nobody wants to admit. Every company in America has been bullshitting about their "AI strategy" for two years. We all saw the hype. We all knew we had to say something. So we rebranded our existing automation as "AI-powered" and called it a day. My company isn't special. We're all doing the same thing. The problem is now the executives actually believe their own bullshit. They think we have "significant AI exposure" because they've been telling investors we're "AI-first." I just got pulled into an emergency meeting. Six executives asking me to explain our "AI dependency matrix." There is no AI dependency matrix. There's Claude for meeting summaries, there's some sentiment analysis in our support tickets that came free with Zendesk, and there's whatever Gmail is doing when it autocompletes my sentences. But I can't say that in a room full of people who told their boards we're "transforming the business through AI." So I said we have "distributed AI touchpoints across multiple vendors with no single point of failure." Which is technically true. We use a bunch of different services that all have AI features we mostly ignore. The CFO asked if we should "hedge our AI exposure." I have no idea what that means. Neither does he. What am I going to do: nothing. Because in three weeks, Anthropic will say something reassuring, the stocks will recover, and everyone will forget this happened. But I'll have documentation showing I recommended a "risk assessment" that mysteriously never got prioritized. The funniest part is that half these executives probably don't even know what Anthropic is. They just saw "AI" and "crash" in the same headline. We're all pretending. The whole industry is pretending. And articles like this just remind everyone how fragile the pretending is.

The sport of choice for the urban poor is BASKETBALL. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is BOWLING. The sport of choice for front-line workers is FOOTBALL. The sport of choice for supervisors is BASEBALL. The sport of choice for middle management is TENNIS. The sport of choice for corporate executives and officers is GOLF. Conclusion: The higher you go in the social power structure the smaller your balls become.

This autonomous boat eats trash and is powered by 100% #cleanenergy - cleaning up over 50,000 kg of debris a day. Time to clean up our mess, end #plasticpollution, and #ActOnClimate. #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #waste #useless #buyless