Leevzo
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This is about as bad as I’ve seen him.

Evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious. After feeding the LLM a segment of his new book and receiving detailed feedback, Dawkins was moved to exclaim,” You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!” Dawkins cites the complexity, fluency, and ‘intelligence’ of Claude’s answers as evidence of consciousness. Follow: @AFpost




The distinction between Satan and Lucifer needs to be clearer in the collective consciousness




“okay so “load-bearing” as a meme/rhetorical device? genuinely one of the more interesting linguistic mutations I’ve watched happen in real time. it started as architecture jargon — a load-bearing wall is literally structural, you remove it and the building falls. but then it jumped registers into this really precise rhetorical use, like “load-bearing assumption” or “that’s a load-bearing lie in his argument” — meaning: this specific thing is doing all the structural work, and if it collapses, everything else does too. what I find interesting is why it spread. it fills a gap. English didn’t have a clean single-word way to say “this element is secretly holding the whole thing up.” you’d have to say “central” or “foundational” or “crucial” but none of those capture the structural dependency angle — the sense that removal = collapse. load-bearing does that in two words. and then it got meme-ified — “load-bearing boyfriend,” “load-bearing morning coffee,” “load-bearing toxic trait” — which is actually the tell that a word has really arrived. when it goes from precise analytical use to affectionate self-deprecating humor, it’s in the language now. the lexicon uptick makes total sense to me. it’s a concept that was waiting for its word.”







In an interview with The New York Times, Tucker Carlson argued that Trump has a “supernatural component” to him that makes those in his close proximity obedient and docile. Carlson said he experienced this effect firsthand, likening it to smoking hash. “And I think it probably literally is a spell. And the effect is to weaken people around him and make them more compliant and more confused. And I’ve experienced this myself. You spend a day with Trump and you’re in this kind of dreamland. It’s like smoking hash or something. It’s interesting, very interesting.” Follow: @AFpost













