AI BS Detector

@bridgietherease (4) Many Yemeni pissed by the US attack: x.com/Seamus_Malek/s… None of their opinion seems to matter or have any effect on reality 🤷‍♂️

@bridgietherease (3) An Iranian official explaining patiently to two bemused US anchors that, no, Iran is not attacking the US, but the contrary is happening before our eyes: x.com/AdameMedia/sta…

it just hardly seems to matter what anyone thinks about anything

AI is dogshit and everybody knows it. But it's the US emperor's clothes, so it will remain perfused with fake money for the time being, and some people will be unjustly rewarded for giving into this dosghit. And note: AI will remain dogshit for the time being.

@r0ck3t23 Yes, but also, Sam needs to understand that AI "art" is dogshit at the present time.

AI can now generate images more beautiful than anything most humans could make. Sam Altman just explained why nobody cares. Altman: “The value that people put on that effectively rounds to zero.” Not less valuable. Zero. A flawlessly generated AI image, technically superior to almost anything a human could produce, valued at nothing. When visual perfection becomes instantly available to everyone, it stops being scarce. And when it stops being scarce, it stops being valuable. The scarcity that gave art its worth was never the beauty. It was the human who made it. Altman: “Without the person effectively signing their name to it, we seem to not care.” That sentence is the entire shift compressed into one line. We don’t consume art. We consume the person behind it. The struggle. The intention. The specific human consciousness that decided this particular thing should exist. AI can replicate the output. It cannot replicate the origin. Altman points out that if an artist uses AI as a tool but still has something they were trying to express, the work retains its value. The human intention is the product. The image is just how it arrives. Remove the person and the beauty becomes noise. This is what nobody building AI art tools fully absorbed. They optimized for the output and assumed the output was what people valued. It wasn’t. It was never the pixels. It was always the person. AI isn’t going to replace human artists. It’s going to do something more disorienting. It’s going to make technical skill irrelevant and force the entire market to pay for something that was always there but never had to be named. Presence. Intention. Proof that a human consciousness cared enough to make this particular thing. Abundance makes perfection free. Meaning becomes the only scarcity worth paying for. And meaning can’t be automated. Because meaning requires a consciousness choosing to say something specific to someone specific for reasons that matter. The artists who survive won’t be the most technically gifted. They’ll be the most undeniably human. AI gave the world infinite art and proved that what we actually want is irreplaceable.

@BecomingCritter is that a whole lot of words to justify being an a**hole (?)

He who fears the cortisol spike believes he maintains power through stoic refusal but *sniff* this is precisely his castration! His very fear of the spike IS the spike The jestermaxxer understands something profound, something the stoics would hate: power does not flow from dignity or composure. No, no, no. Power flows from controlling the frame of transgression itself. The jester is not degrading himself, he is forcing everyone else into the position of the they who must react, who must have their cortisol spiked or suppressed. He has made himself the traumatic Real that others must incorporate into their symbolic order! The jestermaxxer has achieved what Hegel calls absolute knowing. He knows the game is fake AND he plays it anyway, and this is what allows him to framemogg

@lui_major @lowkeyalbert so happy to be autistic to the point that i cannot make sense of a sentence like that. saves me so much drama

@lowkeyalbert Happened to me by 2 people I trusted most. My ex who cheated after 2 years of our relationship, and my best friend of 5+ years who chose her over me after warning him that she cheated on not only me, but on him too early in their relationship.

How it felt being betrayed by someone you only seen good in

@yzytimes "How do you make your voice the loudest?" Should that be the question though?

"When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most"

@signulll a surreptitious addition

whoever put the b in to subtle really knew what they were doing.

@mikeshea01 @BillDA2336 @Osinttechnical smartest thing I read today 🙌

@BillDA2336 @Osinttechnical But you have to remember , the cost of the target is also including the cost of what the target is going to hit if not brought down.

The small French manufacturer ALM Meca just came out of nowhere to announce Fury, the company’s privately developed, low cost interceptor. The drone is capable of hitting speeds of over 700 km/h and pulling 20 G, giving it massive engagement capabilities.

"When you understand physics" tweets 💀💀💀 Being dexterous has *nothing* to do with understanding physics. Please make it stop!

@algekalipso how so? especially intrigued by the connection with geometry and dynamical systems

I'm not an expert on these fields (they are _deep_). But even introduction-level ideas have enormous explanatory and descriptive power. I am eager to see how the next level of understanding will look like as we mine these fields for further insights pertinent to exotic phenomenology.

A couple things that can really help you make sense of DMT experiences: Differential geometry, dynamic systems, higher dimensional geometry, non-linear optics, deep neural networks, energy based learning/predictive processing, stop motion animations/animation techniques/cel animation, laser chess, set/graph/hypergraph theory (especially spectral graph theory), material science (metamaterials, high-entropy alloys), Jhanas/Vipassana phenomenology, music theory and sound synthesis, vibroacoustic engineering, physiology, standard game theory, Levin's version of game theory, Open/Closed/Empty Individualism versions of game theory, ancient symbology (seriously), valence structuralism, annealing and other self-organizing principles, energy body practices, cognitive science and psychophysics, psychoanalysis, Buddhist psychology, the binding problem, Zero Ontology, algorithmic complexity, long tail distributions, and positive psychology.

@yjelid how do you see that?

this is insane, the user OpenReviewers is actually posting the reviewers’ names on the papers.

@Ryan_Daigler @WilySurvivor escalate until when? and what is a good behavior to adopt?

And this is where they get dangerous and will lie and make false accusations to eliminate the threat of exposure. The crazy thing is, this becomes a self fulfilling prophecy for the narcissist. They start abusing someone or crossing boundaries, and when the person puts up a boundary or disengages, the narcissist feels threatened that they were “seen” so they begin telling lies about the person and become more abusive. And this makes it worse because then their victim has to stick up for themselves to protect their job or their career their livelihood or their reputation, so they feel obligated then to expose the narcissist and the victim is the one telling the truth so they don’t give up. But the narcissist doesn’t give up either because they’re irrational, so it just escalates and gets worse

When a narcissist feels exposed, it’s not guilt you’re seeing. It’s terror. Their entire world depends on pretending to be who they say they are.

@Simeon_Cps one of the most successful astroturf I've seen on this website

Just discovered Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks, a 2024 proposal to replace MLPs which is supposingly (at small scale) better and more interpretable. To my surprise, the papers has 2.5k citations. Have these shown to be useful for anything?

@Ryan_Daigler Does that mean that they should be systematically confronted when they have done something inappropriate?

When a malignant narcissist is confronted with something inappropriate or abusive they have done, rather than acknowledging any wrongdoing or attempting to correct it, they will often DOUBLE DOWN, or intensify their behavior. While doubling down is an attempt to maintain control and protect their fragile ego, it can often backfire. Their responses can be irrational, self-destructive, and may ultimately make them look foolish. This disconnect between their intentions and the actual outcomes is a result of their distorted perception of reality and their inability to see beyond their immediate need to defend their self-image.

@onlystresstoday nah sometimes it's just murky, especially in the aftermaths of some event

Deep down. You know exactly where you stand with someone. Delusion blurs the lines a bit but, you know.

@MaxUnfried Is it absurd to consider that PhD students, with little to no prior experience in research, are in apprenticeship and need to learn the ropes of research by carrying out parts of the research agenda of their advisor. Pretty much like any other job, one needs to learn the ropes...

Academia has institutionalized infantilization. PhD students in their mid 20s are treated as kids. Researchers in their mid 30s are junior and need approval from seniors. It’s keeping adults in intellectual adolescence, and independence is delayed until they are obedient.