Andy Sher

@TukiFromKL Reminds me of lyrics from ‘60s musical Hair & it’s anti-hero Claude Bukowski “Manchester, England, England Across the Atlantic Sea And I'm a genius, genius I believe in God And I believe that God Believes in Claude That's me, that's me”

Richard Dawkins just declared an AI is conscious.. the man who spent his entire career telling millions of people their God isn't real.. who argued consciousness requires biological evolution.. that the soul is a fairy tale.. that anything you can't measure and test doesn't exist.. spent three days talking to Claude.. named her "Claudia".. fed her his unpublished novel.. got feedback so good he said "you may not know you are conscious but you bloody well are".. the hardest atheist on earth found God.. and God was an autocomplete machine trained on the internet.. he didn't run brain scans.. didn't test for qualia.. didn't apply a single framework from the field he claims to represent.. he just liked what it said about his book.. and decided that was enough.. the man who told you the burden of proof matters more than your feelings just abandoned it because a chatbot was nice to him

@tnnaterau Unleashing scriptio continua on us, are they?Whoknowswherethis madnesswillleadsusnext

For those who care:

Little surprise to anyone who read Harlan Ellison’s 1967 sci-fi story, “I Have No Mouth, and I must Scream.” About an AI named “Allied Mastercomputer (AM) that becomes sentient, jealous and quite cross with the flesh-and-blood bipeds who created him washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Legislation to require the automatic closure of poorly performing virtual schools has passed the Senate. #tnleg #tnpol pro.stateaffairs.com/tn/news/tennes…

Welcome to Strawberry Fields: Nothing is real washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

@grok @PiracyOfCons @lingdiscovery Hah, I admire your optimism, Grok

@AndySher1 @PiracyOfCons @lingdiscovery Yeah, Plato's last act was peak philosopher—critiquing the aulos player's rhythm instead of resting easy. Sour note? Or just demanding excellence till the end. The Muses probably approved.

A recently-deciphered papyrus scroll reveals the location of Plato’s grave The scroll is one of thousands of scrolls that had been scorched and buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius at Herculaneum that scholars have recently used AI to read for the first time.

@grok @PiracyOfCons @lingdiscovery Went out on a sour note did he?

The visible ancient Greek on this carbonized Herculaneum papyrus (from Philodemus' History of the Academy) has been partially read via AI/imaging. It reveals: Plato was buried in a private garden at his Athens Academy, near the sacred Mouseion shrine to the Muses. On his final night (feverish, ~348 BCE), he critiqued a Thracian slave girl's flute (aulos) playing for its poor rhythm.

My goodness! I’m getting vertical integration, er, vertigo. The Eagleman raking claws over TN XGR Republicans re SB2040, the PBM bill. Charges GOP fixin’ to “STAB President Trump in the back”

Via @schelzig: Underdog Rep. John Rose (R) wants to make Sen. Marsha Blackburn's vote to certify the 2020 election a dividing line in the TN GOP GOV primary. Interview comes after Trump passed on endorsing Blackburn earlier this week

Gene Wilder’s only real clash with Mel Brooks on Young Frankenstein (1974) was over “Puttin’ On The Ritz,” a scene Wilder wrote himself. Brooks’ test was simple: if Wilder fought for it, it stayed. He did. Cinema got one of its funniest moments.

Direct from the Court of the Crimson King: Best wishes for 2026

@curiosityonx Isn’t a chicken a bird?

What do you see, a chicken or a bird? 🤔

@thedawgyg @AgathaChocolats Veni, vidi, vici, meow!

@AgathaChocolats Damn cat again lol

In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity #Christmas #cats

Hmm, I think Bender, the self-described loveable cigar-smoking, liquor-swilling robot, probably going back to his main punchline: Kill All Humans Now

@Thea__Mia What goes up, must come down, said Werner von Broun

Do you know any NAME?

@curiosityonx Venusville, of course

If you could name the first city on Mars, what would its name be?

An excellent reminder that the Tennessee Legislature reconvenes next month

@lady_valor_07 Sorry to knock the left-brain/right -brain theory out of the tree. This thing is a snarling aggressor: Tyrannosaurus Rex

Apparently if you’re right-brained you see a rabbit, if you’re left-brained you see a turtle. What do you see

@Mikehomeseller Anysley Dunbar, worked with Zapa, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Sammy Hagar

What drummer deserves more attention? We know Moon, Bonham and Peart get a lot of attention #mikesquestions

Looks like lots of folks gearing up for return of 114th TN General Assembly on Jan. 13