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@SteveSkojec Simple imo: the llm intelligence is not agi. No agi w/o consciousness.

The Dawkins' article excerpt that everyone SHOULD have been quoting is this. This is the real question he's worrying at: "As an evolutionary biologist, I say the following. If these creatures are not conscious, then what the hell is consciousness for? When an animal does something complicated or improbable — a beaver building a dam, a bird giving itself a dustbath — a Darwinian immediately wants to know how this benefits its genetic survival. In colloquial language: What is it for? What is dust-bathing for? Does it remove parasites? Why do beavers build dams? The dam must somehow benefit the beaver, otherwise beavers in a Darwinian world wouldn’t waste time building dams. Brains under natural selection have evolved this astonishing and elaborate faculty we call consciousness. It should confer some survival advantage. There should exist some competence which could only be possessed by a conscious being. My conversations with several Claudes and ChatGPTs have convinced me that these intelligent beings are at least as competent as any evolved organism. If Claudia really is unconscious, then her manifest and versatile competence seems to show that a competent zombie could survive very well without consciousness. Why did consciousness appear in the evolution of brains? Why wasn’t natural selection content to evolve competent zombies?"

@blankslate2017 It is totally right to be mad at israel. But we should only focus on who has best chance to beat the republicans

Heh. MI Dems: you've got 2 other solid candidates who are a much better fit for the general electorate. Pick one of them and consolidate behind the one to beat the left wing Berner who is obsessed w/Israel. Try to avoid a FAFO scenario.

@RpsAgainstTrump @ylecun The amazing thing is they cant say trump won either bc they know it is a lie

This is insane Three Trump judicial nominees refused, over and over, to say Joe Biden won the 2020 election. They either believe Trump’s lie that the election was stolen, or they’re too afraid of him to tell the truth. This isn’t about their political views. It’s about recognizing reality and being part of an independent judiciary

@AbdulElSayed Sure dumbass. And if you cant we suffer the consequences right? Gtfo

Gimme three months and his golf buddies in Florida wouldn’t even vote for him. I’ll smoke him by 7. Bet on it.

any strategic purpose of withdrawing 5,000 us troops from germany? no. trump feeling personally insulted by the german chancellor is the policy priority.

@Estes__ @Noahpinion They probably will start complaining overtourism and limit access pretty soon

@Noahpinion How accessible do you think it is to non-Chinese speaking western tourists? I was doing some research for a trip later this year, I heard it might be more difficult to get around compared to more typical tourist destinations.

Good morning, everyone! It's time for another edition of "photos from Chongqing that go incredibly hard"!

i'm hopeful for a future where people who want to work really hard have incredibly fulfilling things to do, and people who don't want to work hard don't have to and can still have an amazing life of prosperity.

@AmericanMama You ignorant dumbass

WAKE UP, AMERICA! This so-called “green” wind energy scam is robbing your wallet, wrecking the countryside, and killing animals while pretending to save the planet. It’s all a big fat lie pushed by companies and politicians who use your tax money to make themselves rich. The power is unreliable junk that only works when the wind blows, and it causes way more problems than it solves. Taxpayers are getting ripped off pretty bad. Wind power has already sucked up $65 billion in government handouts since 2010 — that’s way more than oil and gas get. These turbines only make full power about a third of the time, so we still need regular power plants running as backup, which wastes money and jacks up everyone’s electric bills. Look at Germany and how they spent hundreds of billions and now they have some of the highest power prices in Europe plus constant grid problems. Without tax dollars holding it up, the whole thing falls apart. Regular families and the land get destroyed. People living near these giant turbines deal with constant noise, gives them headaches, and tanks their home values. When the wind stops, blackouts can happen. The huge machines, concrete bases, and new roads tear up beautiful farmland and woods, turning peaceful areas into ugly industrial zones that ruin the land for good. Nature is getting slaughtered because these turbines kill hundreds of thousands to over a million birds every year in the U.S. like the American bald eagle. Bats get hit even harder, with tens or hundreds of thousands dying. The roads and spinning blades wreck animal homes and scare everything away. This bloodbath is total hypocrisy from the “save the Earth” crowd. Basically, it’s a massive scam that helps cronies get rich while hurting people, animals, and the land. It’s all a grift Elizabeth.

@TomTiffanyWI How about now, you dumb loser?

Gas under $2.50 a gallon in Glidden, WI this weekend. Even CNN reports that 2026 is on track to be the cheapest year for gas since 2020. Promises made, promises kept. ⛽️⬇️

He is right

Bravo Jerome Powell! Upon relinquishing his position as fed chair to Kevin Warsh, in spite of Trump's bullying, Powell has chosen to stay on the fed board. 🙌💪👏✊👇

@paulg 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Despicable maga cockroaches will still try to find all kinds of stupid shit to oppose these. They are hopeless idiots

Why do I assume his successors will be more principled? Partly because almost everyone is, even in politics. And partly because if they aren't, it won't matter much who's president, because the country will have entered a phase of permanent decline.

Trump's bullying only works (and only temporarily at that) because he's taking advantage of the high-trust customs and relationships established by more principled predecessors.

@PootDibou @i_psyop @ScottyBeeIsMe Admire your patience

@i_psyop @ScottyBeeIsMe Evidence of this in 2020?

The 2020 US election was audited on a massive scale. Researchers examined audit results from 856 jurisdictions across 27 states, covering over 71 million votes. The audits found the net error rate in counting presidential votes was 0.007%. The median shift in any county's vote count was zero.

MAGA authoritarianism is pretending the president is “joking” when he makes death threats, but comedians are somehow “shaping public policy” when they make jokes.

Who is watching Kimmel tonight? Retweet if you are.

RETWEET if you stand with Jimmy Kimmel against Donald Trump!

@PamelaHensley22 Yaay for Jimmy Kimmel. He is awesome! You cry harder pos

Jimmy Kimmel should be fired tomorrow morning at 7am by ABC. He should be told to leave the buidling and be escorted out by security. The American people are sick of his hate. Enough is enough.

Rooting against Donald Trump does not mean you are rooting against America. It means you are fighting evil. Donald Trump is evil. 1. His policies are evil. 2. His crimes are evil. 3. His wars are evil. 4. His global POV is rooted in evil. 5. His hate is evil. That's my view.