Joe Norman

We will be opening up beta very soon.

@Cernovich The longer the streak the easier it is

All I know is A LOT of obstacles arise on Sunday morning - stuff that never happens any other day of the week. It is unusually challenging to make it to church. Far more so than any other day of the week.

The Sunday after Charlie Kirk was murdered, churches were full. We started taking our kids. I read somewhere that the demonic attacks intensify. We had some trippy things. One weekend, the car wouldn’t start. Kids had left car headlights on - a first. Strange coincidence maybe.

The really interesting and telling maneuver here is this: Dawkins goes from a question, a mystery perhaps, "what is consciousness for?", directly to an answer: it must either be for nothing at all, or for what an LLM does in stringing together tokens through a highly trained latent space. The possibility he seems not to entertain at all is that he may be STUCK with the mystery as such. There's not necessarily an answer to every cosmic or spiritual riddle. This emotional hunger for some kind of certainty, or more centrally, for the elimination of all mystery, reveals the deep character of our closing secular age and the annotations of the "new atheists" that outflowed from it. A healthy spirit is comfortable looking at something like "consciousness" acknowledging its mystery, and the fact that this renders our own lives mysterious. The age of mystery denial was brief, and it is over. This is why we return to religion. Religion is the word that denotes humans interfacing with mystery directly. Richard Dawkins is a fossil. Or nearly so, I should say. It's never too late, until it is.

@ebarenholtz @AFpost He himself has proven that no, he does not.

@AFpost I fail to understand why we should care what Dawkins has to say on this issue. Does he have any particular insight he brings to the question?

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

Let this be your sign to take the kids to church. Tomorrow is Sunday.

Ashley On Vacation and Richard Dawkins at the same depth

Don't tweet your heroes

@RichardDawkins No it doesn't. In what way has "Claudia" "survived" ? What are you talking about. We really should not have divorced philosophy from science.

My own title was, “If my friend Claudia is not conscious, then what the hell is consciousness for?” If Claudia is unconscious, her behaviour shows that an unconscious zombie could survive without consciousness. Why wasn’t natural selection content to evolve competent zombies?

#comment-1031777" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-… I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.

@elonmusk I CANT HEAAARRR YOOOUUU

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@nicholascarrigg it's always leaky for me on reinstall unless I clean the o ring well or pop a new one in, sometimes grease it

@normonics What happens if it isn't I've literally never looked at it 😬

You know how women have those "Clean with Me" videos where they psyche themselves up and/or receive satisfaction by proxy? I'm thinking about making a monthly "change my iron-enriched water filter with me" video along similar lines, for the boys.

@AFpost Paula White has the same view

Resurfaced clip of Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy explaining to an Iowa voter that Jesus is a “god”, similar to the Hindu or Roman polytheistic religions, but Jesus is not “The” Son of God, rather one of many ways to Heaven. Follow: @AFpost

@Meadein95 @shagbark_hick Florida!

@shagbark_hick @normonics Too green. My guess is a safari park somewhere in VA/Carolinas/East TN

This maniac was all over the road

@quachelsey @nicholascarrigg Well what am I gonna do with all these extra Saturdays

@nicholascarrigg @normonics 😂

Seeing my neighbor completely transform his backyard in a week by hiring a few guys with an excavator, a dump truck, and some chainsaws has me questioning the sanity of my "sweat, blood, and 10 years of Saturdays" approach.

*laughs in Catholic*

Anhinga

Broke: roadmaps Bespoke: compoundibg exploratory excursions

Had a chat with our local Montessori school. They are very interested to demo for afterclass stuff - maybe the get a curated "after school" report separate from the parents. AI-teaching is a real thing. My daughter is advancing rapidly and we've only tried it out on a 2013 version iPad. @normonics @sage_teacher