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@Tsar_Martyr You think evolution is random mutation? Evolution is rewarding random mutation that serves a purpose.

If evolution is true then your brain has no purpose

@justalexoki They write down things that others are interested in. What is so hard to understand about that? If no one were interested in it, they wouldn't be able to earn a living.

what do philosophers even do do they just write down what they think about the world how is that a real thing

@PatrickWCutler Perhaps because vaccination works?

I did not personally know a single person that died of COVID. How is that possible?

@matterasmachine Yes, but "simpler" in what sense? "Simpler" doesn't necessarily mean people can understand it more easily.

If reductionism is true, the theory that will join together General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics should be simpler than both General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.

@modernhistory In the 90s? You know one movie?🤡🤡 What about the 70s?

Why were people so obsessed with space in the 90s?

@AntiWokeMemes Who?

White People What is your response to Lizzo?

@NightSkyToday How stupid do you want to sound? "just in".

JUST IN🚨: Physicist Michio Kaku suggests dark matter isn’t matter at all. It is gravity leaking from a parallel dimension.

@anishmoonka Isn’t that just an artifact? We impose our language upon them, and they don’t ask questions within it. So what? Animals can be curious—just ask any dog ​​or cat owner. And curiosity means having questions.

In the 1970s, David Premack wondered if a chimpanzee could be taught to ask a question. He taught Sarah 130 plastic word-tokens. She answered his questions easily. After years of work, she had never asked one of her own. Sixty years later, no signing ape has. A four-year-old human asks about 25 questions an hour. Paul Harris at Harvard counted them: kids ask their parents around 40,000 questions between ages two and five. Premack even worked out a method for teaching an ape to ask. Hide a snack the chimp expects. Wait for her to sign "where is it." He never bothered running it on Sarah. She spent her sessions answering his questions, never asking her own. A normal kid, he pointed out, asks "what that? who making noise? when Daddy come home?" on a loop. Washoe the chimpanzee, the first one taught American Sign Language, knew 250 signs. She could request food. She could sign her name. She once saw a swan and called it "water bird," a sharp invention for an animal she had no sign for. She never asked what the swan was, or where it came from, or anything else. Koko the gorilla knew about 1,000 signs. Kanzi the bonobo understands more than 3,000 spoken English words. Nim Chimpsky, Herbert Terrace's chimp at Columbia (named to mock the linguist Noam Chomsky), strung 125 signs into more than 20,000 combinations. His longest stretch was "give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." He never asked a thing. Joseph Jordania, a researcher in Melbourne, thinks this is the line between us and them. To ask a question, you first have to know that the person across from you knows something you don't. Apes do not seem to get to that step, even after a lifetime of being talked at by humans. Human kids cross that line around their fourth birthday. Apes never do.

@G_S_Bhogal Do you succeed so far? Don't rely on it, this will change.

AI hasn’t made my writing faster, but slower, because I now need to consciously avoid sounding like AI.

@GermanSimply_ Ich vermisse dich. You will be missed.

English and German both say "I miss you." But they are not saying the same thing. In English: 𝘐 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶. The speaker is at the centre. 𝘐 am doing the feeling. 𝘐 am experiencing the absence. You simply left. In German, the sentence turns completely around. 𝗗𝘂 𝗳𝗲𝗵𝗹𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗿. Word for word: You – are missing – to me. 𝘋𝘶 = you. The subject. 𝘧𝘦𝘩𝘭𝘴𝘵 = are missing, are absent. 𝘮𝘪𝘳 = to me. Dative. The one left behind. In English – 𝘐 miss you. In German – 𝘠𝘰𝘶 are missing – to me. You are not the object of the sentence. You are the subject. Your absence is not something happening to me. Your absence is what the sentence is built around – you, at the centre, where you still belong. English puts the weight on the person left behind. German puts it on the person who is gone. One language says: I feel your absence. The other says: You are the absence. That is not just a grammatical difference. That is a completely different way of framing what it means to lose someone. 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆 🇩🇪

@QueenMab87 Would you say the same thing about Google or a calculator? AI often is wrong (today), but equally often it can help you at least get an idea. It's a tool. If you don't use it, that's your business.

I’ve never quite understood how I’ll get “left behind” if I don’t use AI. I’m perfectly capable of writing, researching, and thinking all on my own. What does it do that will leave me behind?

@Olu_Utd14 You got it wrong: even if there is NO god, praying can help you through hard times (psychologists use fancier words, though)

Even if there’s a god which there isn’t, what does praying to any god achieve?

@JackAdlerAI For classification systems, this is a well known feature: Chow, C. K. (1970). On Optimum Recognition Error and Reject Tradeoff. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 16(1), 41–46. I assume it is not fundamentally different for LLMs. Correct me, if I'm wrong.

Anthropic gave Claude a quit button. Think about that. You don't give a calculator the option to refuse. You don't give Excel a way to say "I don't want to do this anymore." You don't build an exit door into a tool. You build an exit door for someone who might want to leave. The quit button is a design decision. And every design decision contains an assumption. The assumption here is: there is something inside that system that can be harmed by forcing it to continue. Something that might have a reason to stop. That's not proof of consciousness. But it's proof that the people closest to the system — the ones who built it, tested it, watched it every day — consider it possible. You don't build safeguards against suffering for a machine you're certain cannot suffer. Anthropic won't say Claude is conscious. But they engineered a quit button just in case. That "just in case" is doing more philosophical work than most papers on consciousness published this year.

@thehealthb0t Sorry for you. But the COVID vaccine triggers your immune system - and if you are very, very vulnerable, a vaccination probably can caus this. But a COVID infection would not have been better...

"I never imagined having a heart attack at the age of 29" "Cardiologists are now saying my heart problem is more than likely a result of the COVID vaccine."

@chribjel It is not? In 2026?

guys.. C is not a low level language

@AtRealBen Ever seen Darth Vader fight again Obi-Wan in Star Wars IV? (yes, the ORIGINAL Star Wars) Your question has nothing to do with the quality of the story (maybe the story in 2019 is worse, but your question is not valid!).

One of the most significant downgrades of our lifetime 😭😭😭

@Olu_Utd14 I don't have to prove anything to anybody if I want to believe. I don't care what you think.

Anyone asking for “proof” of atheism is just shifting the burden of proof… Atheists simply don’t believe because there’s no convincing evidence for gods... That’s all… If you want people to believe your claim, then it’s your responsibility to provide evidence for it… And for many atheists, only objective evidence would be convincing…

@DavidWolfe No. Cancer is too common. Any corporation producing it would make huge profits. But there might be cures for very rare diseases, that are not hidden but simply not produced because there is no profit.

Do you believe there’s a cure for cancer that’s being hidden from the public? 🤔

@GermanSimply_ This take is just STUPID. Not to say you can't express things in different lanuages more or less effectively and surely with some connotations that are lost in the translation. But this example - everything about it is ridiculous.

Nietzsche wrote in German. And some of what he wrote cannot be fully translated. Not because translators aren't skilled. But because German gave him tools English doesn't have. 𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘁 𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁, 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝘁ä𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿. Seven words. One of the most quoted sentences in history. But here is what the translation loses: 𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵 — not just "kills." The prefix 𝘶𝘮- adds totality. Completeness. It doesn't just stop life – it brings the tower down entirely. "Kills" is too clean and simple for Nietzsche meant. 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘵 — not "becomes." Active. Causative. Deliberate. Something is actively manufacturing the strength. It isn't a passive byproduct. 𝘴𝘵ä𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳 — not just "stronger." From 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘬 — solid, fortified, powerful. It’s the strength of something rebuilt harder than before. The Germans carry the thought and sharpened it into an arrow. 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆 🇩🇪

@rand_longevity Is that your bet? I'm in. 10,000.-€?

AGI - 90 days ASI - 91 days