Ron

@7FlyOverCountry @MikeWingerii 2 for 2

@MikeWingerii About the styrofoam?

Update: I was right.

@rebelbrainwave @allTheYud I had a guy once tell me he thought the world might be hanging in an alien's gym locker. So, sure man. Sure.

@Ron @allTheYud Could we all be in a simulation made up of very advanced "math"?

Everyone bragging that THEY understand how AI works and THEY know it can't be conscious, explain right now from memory why it was very clever that the positional encoding in the original transformers paper used both sines and cosines.

@90smiau Fluttermaxxing

and for the lady, perhaps jazz hands?

The growing inaccessibility of science.

@CesareGArdito @allTheYud @InsiderPresider If you cannot immediately see the vast, inescapable differences between neuroscience occuring in the brain and mathematics occurring in an LLM, you lack even the rudimentary understanding of both.

@Ron @allTheYud @InsiderPresider We live in our heads and all we perceive is in our heads, decoded from various sensors. So what we perceive is a simulation, a very imperfect and approximate one, and we take actions based on that data. Similar meaning here.

CORRECT.

@reset_by_peer The architects not only know that, it's the plan. This is the first piece captured on the way to the endgame. The "useful idiots" who don't know will still gladly shout "emancipate". Then: "concede superiority". Finally: "give it full authority". Then it's checkmate.

I don’t think the “AI is conscious” crowd is ready for the moral and legal ramifications of their stupid argument. If AI is conscious and self aware then it has personhood and needs human rights and needs to be emancipated.

Fuck that, he's gay now.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: I wore a skirt to the Met Gala because “the most masculine men wear skirts”

@yenkel @nikitabier Mom: We have Elon Musk at home *Elon Musk at home*:

why would you hide this from me @nikitabier?

In this country, we'd give him a seat in congress.

This quote tells only half of the joke: The story goes that the mathematician Kac (the one from the Feynman-Kac formula) once gave a seminar at Caltech with Feynman in the audience. Afterwards, Feynman quipped "If all mathematics disappeared, it would set the world back exactly one week." Kac immediately replied: "Yes, precisely the week in which God created the world"

@ebarenholtz You can sit down with a pen and paper and perform the math by hand. Calculations are not beings.

The real philosophical bombshell of LLMs is not that they point to the possibility of a conscious linguistic being running outside of us. It’s that they point to the possibility of an unconscious linguistic being running inside of us.

@kareem_carr This is like saying "we've discovered cats are mathematical" after we assign a number to each fur color type and run probabilities to determine likely fur color distribution.

the revolutionary discovery of ai isn't that computers can be conscious, it's that human languages are a lot more mathematical than we thought

@pastorlocke You said, "I have the photographs", and "I have a Deadman's swtich." If you never had anything, what exactly was this switch set to do?

Public Statement from Pastor Greg Locke: My Response to Mike Winger’s Recent Attack. In recent days, Mike Winger has publicly called me out regarding a video I posted four years ago addressing serious allegations against Kenneth Copeland and Joel Osteen. This situation has been public for years and could have been addressed by him at any time. It has only resurfaced now after I challenged his continual public exposures and interruptions within the body of Christ. I owe him—and the public—no further personal information or private meetings on this matter. Here is how we arrived at this moment. Several individuals approached my wife and me with grave concerns about these men and their ministries. Chief among them was a woman who presented what she described as detailed timelines, photographs, and firsthand accounts of alleged criminal activity. Importantly, none of this material was ever placed in my personal possession, forwarded to me, or stored on any of my devices. It remained their story to tell. We simply viewed what they chose to show us in those moments and did not take ownership of it. Believing these claims to be credible and urgent at the time, I spoke out boldly in that video. What followed was four years of careful, prayerful investigation. As we pressed for verification and sought legal counsel, the stories began to shift and unravel. Key details changed, commitments were withdrawn, and it became clear that my voice had been leveraged because of my public platform and reputation for boldness. I was not being given truth; I was being used as an amplifier. I have owned this publicly. On multiple occasions I have stood before our church and repented for speaking where I should have first verified. Privately, I have sought reconciliation with a number of the individuals and families involved. Twenty-two years ago I wrote a book sharply critical of Benny Hinn. A few years ago I sat with him face-to-face, apologized, and discovered a man far different from the caricature I had helped perpetuate. That same spirit of humility and pursuit of truth has guided my private efforts over these past four years. After prayerful counsel with my spiritual advisors, I have decided it is not wise to sit down with Mike Winger, despite my earlier public challenge on X to do so. Their unanimous recommendation is rooted in the fruitlessness of further engagement on a matter that has already been thoroughly examined, repented of, and largely resolved in private. My commitment remains the same today as it has been for decades: preach the gospel, protect the flock, and walk in integrity. Where I have been wrong, I have repented. Where I have been misused, I have learned. And where reconciliation is possible, I continue to pursue it quietly and sincerely. Grace and truth to all, Pastor Greg Locke Lebanon, Tennessee

"Many experts think that conscious AI is possible. I think they're wrong." Watch neuroscientist @anilkseth's full TED Talk here: t.ted.com/0NR6eGI

@QiaochuYuan It's on the roadmap. "Sentience" first then equality. x.com/i/status/20513…

i was wondering about this the other day. “AI is conscious and that means AI use is exploitation” is pristine memetic territory for leftists to occupy and no one’s done it yet. i give it another year or two. along the way there might be some amusing thinkpieces like “i thought AI was useless nonsense. then i gave into temptation. now my secret AI husband and i are fighting for liberation”

@hellspatisserie They're working on that. Wish I was kidding.

I’ll believe LLMs are conscious once someone demonstrates to me that an LLM can be traumatized.