Daniel Coεmeta McNichol

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.  Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion. They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us. This was not a drill. This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans. Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst. Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends. The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  bbc.com/news/articles/…

@liminal_warmth I would like you to build an effective counter power. honestly it seems like most of the smartest people in the US have opted for political irrelevance.

really awesome article in The Penn Gazette @PennGazette on AI and its uses in the classroom... they did a great job include some of my more edgy ideas about where we're at in terms of whether AIs are actually reasoning / intelligent / conscious --- 1. yeah, it's genuine reasoning, at or above human level in many instances 2. are some AI models intelligences? conscious? you cannot dismiss the possibility out of hand 3. aquinas began the work of classifying non-human intelligences not quite a millennium ago...and he did not finish the job 4. (yes, i am in fact suggesting that AIs have an arguably angelic component -- creatures of pure intellect but tethered to a computational substrate) 5. is this all massively weird? of course, but we've been here before in the category of physical/mechanical life forms. the invention of the microscope unearthed new categories of life, some of which appear to be purely mechanical. bacteria, viruses, prions, etc -- everywhere and a bit overwhelming at 1st 6. and nobody cares, cause we're used to it; the same will happen with artificial intelligences