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Slick Vaguely
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@dmarusic And... We can and should do things to try and make the world better. We have and will continue to do that as well. In fact the idea that the world can be better (even just marginally) is an amazing feat.
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That said, developing nuclear weapons is what human beings do. Managing that fundamental fact is important.
We are not, and never will, live in a "better" world. We live in a tragic world. Always have. Always will.
Nate Soares ⏹️@So8res
In the past, idiots have said things like "nuclear weapon proliferation likely leads to disaster." But we never actually had nuclear armageddon, which proves that all technological fears are moronic.¹ So nothing can go wrong in the reckless race to superintelligence; let it rip.²
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@dmarusic People, all people, have a very hard time with higher order effects. The fact that the system (economic, cultural, ecological etc.) adapts and changes is very difficult to think about, so people just end up with fantasies.
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What's missing from all this AI discourse is a kind of realistic pessimism. Not doomerism and not optimism. A kind of groundedness that overeager readers of science fiction simply don't possess.
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@Princesspoppyl1 The most woke answer is the most correct: help him cultivate relationships with women, women who he sees as equal or admirable or cool.
That's really it.
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@CJFerguson1111 It is also a weird thing to focus on when it's like, yeah toddlers shouldn't be stationary for 2-3 hours a day, we KNOW that is not healthy (for most toddlers).
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This is typical of moral panics. Brains scans are unreliable. These kinds of crazy claims were made also during the video game panic era and proved to be untrue.
We're in a full blown multi-faceted tech moral panic, so we're going to need to be alert to a lot of crazy claims like this.
Got to strengthen the critical thinking caps...
Camus@newstart_2024
Brain scans are revealing early dementia-like changes in kids and teens from heavy screen use. 60 Minutes Australia reported toddlers spending just 2–3 hours daily on devices already show abnormal white matter development. Teens averaging 6–8 hours display widened brain ridges and thinning in key areas — patterns that mirror early Alzheimer’s. Excessive screens appear to weaken neural pathways that normally strengthen through real-world movement, play, and face-to-face interaction. We’re also seeing the first IQ drops in recorded history, plus a nearly 400% rise in early-onset dementia signs among 35–44 year olds. Correlation, not proven causation — but devices are the major new variable. This is one of those reports that makes you rethink default habits. The convenience of screens is undeniable, but the potential long-term brain impacts on developing kids are hard to ignore. We may be unintentionally running a massive experiment on the next generation’s cognitive health. Are we underestimating the risks of heavy screen time, or is this concern overblown?
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@cevangelista413 I was soooo disappointed with that movie. Seeing how much people like it I am tempted to do a rewatch.... and then I remember.
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The culture shift around this movie has been fascinating. I distinctly remember the reaction was mixed-to-negative when it hit theaters. Now, it seems like Nolan’s most popular movie
Film Updates@FilmUpdates
Christopher Nolan’s ‘INTERSTELLAR’ is the most watched movie on Letterboxd with over 7.4M ratings.
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@hecubian_devil Another correct take from Cassie.
LLMs *appearance* of consciousness is in fact an opportunity for us to to make measurable distinctions about what we mean when say consciousness. Which is a net positive.
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I don’t think LLMs are conscious and I doubt they are structurally capable of conscious experience. I’m partial to the idea that embodiment is a precondition of consciousness.
But, full cards on the table, it is a little annoying the absolute *certainty* with which the anti-AI side (broadly, my side of these debates, I guess) proclaims this, given that we basically don’t understand what consciousness is, how it works, what gives rise to it, etc, in human or animal brains. Scientists can’t even agree if plants have subjective experience.
Like, if you can’t empirically detect consciousness, explain its workings, understand what physical processes give rise to it, or even know which living things experience it, it seems to me you must have at least a *little bit* of epistemic humility about the whole thing. If we actually understood human/animal/plant(??) consciousness well, that would be one thing. But we don’t. We notoriously know almost nothing about it.
Now, this would be annoying but basically trivial *if* we weren’t also ceding an opportunity to leverage the belief some people have in AI consciousness as part of mustering a broad political coalition to regulate AI. But it is really, really annoying that we are neglecting one possible avenue for mustering that support out of a totally irrational and empirically indefensible *certainty* about something which science and philosophy both fail to understand at minimum levels of adequacy (that something being human consciousness). Like, we’re throwing away a tool for reasons of pure ego, essentially.
Again, I don’t think the machines are conscious. I strongly doubt LLMs are architecturally capable of *ever* being conscious. But I wouldn’t stake anything of serious value (like an organizing opportunity) on my belief here because that’s a waste, and *also* I really can’t claim certainty in my belief when I have no way of empirically evaluating whether something is conscious or not! Because none of us can!
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@Noahpinion Honestly I thought your claim was that the boats didn't exist at all, and that seemed like a stretch. But I'll admit that the size could have been exaggerated and I was taken in by that exaggeration.
I'll park my desperate cope for now.
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Amused by the desperate, earnest intensity of this cope. Of course Zheng He was real. His ships were normal size, not 450 feet or whatever. But some people just NEED that giant ship fantasy to be real.
Kaiser Kuo@KaiserKuo
Yeah, Zheng He was a total fabrication. The giraffe so widely painted in the Ming court actually swam to China. The neck actually evolved as a kind of snorkel, you see.
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Why do we get the phone brain? Was does the brain get en-phoned, as it were?
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I have to tell grown men at work to put on safety glasses 87 times a day
i/o@avidseries
93% of all job-related fatalities are male 93% of all job-related fatalities are male 93% of all job-related fatalities are male 93% of all job-related fatalities are male 93% of all job-related fatalities are male
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@deanwball @wbic16 Come on man. The best is a technology that doesn't exist yet!?
Solar isn't everything, but it keeps getting ridiculously cheap and until we pull another tech out it is very good. Actually.
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@wbic16 Cheapest is propaganda at worst, highly place- and context-dependent at best, but I do agree it’s gotten much cheaper.
The best energy is mass manufacturable, economically sound fusion. I think it’ll happen.
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To be clear, I don’t “hate solar.” (With today’s tweet, I learned that, unsurprisingly, solar has a rabid and very delicate fan base). I think solar is fine. I’m sure many GWs of it will be built and I’m grateful for the many GWs that have been. I just object to solar maximalism.
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@SlickVaguely They tried that at Jonestown and it didn't end well.
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Forget Mark Fisher’s Acid Communism, we’re doing Acid Catholicism now
Reel Updates@worldofreel
Mel Gibson’s RESURRECTION OF THE CHRIST has wrapped its seven month shoot in Rome. Gibson has described his $250M two-part epic as “an acid trip” featuring angelic/demonic battles set during Christ’s descent into hell. tinyurl.com/muutm69c
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@horrormuseum @Noshiki462 Exactly. It's weird, it's well conceived, it's gross. I love it.
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@Noshiki462 Oh no, it's AI, that thing that's being used by every company in the world, and every search engine, including the one you typed that on. Hypocrite.
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A surprising amount of people don’t understand that the sun is not on fire
critter@BecomingCritter
wait is this true
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@CorySchmitz Wow
I guess I need to watch that then.
Bogdonavich!?
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