@CSI_Starbase Thanks man. Awesome work! That bar skit was fantastic :)
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Terry Brady
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@ArtemisConsort I think part of what drives opposition to the death penalty is the prospect that it could be applied in error, or in deliberate malice. If the justice process was flawlessly fair the overall balance of opinion might be quite different.
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Many liberals just don’t know the gritty details of what they’re talking about. I was a soft-on-crime guy when I was picturing a starving orphan stealing bread. When I learned that death-row criminals are mostly guilty of things like “raped a 72 year old woman to death” I stopped caring about their rights or feelings.
Wilfred Reilly@wil_da_beast630
I do not think killing, or even torturing, (say) serial killers is horrifying at all. The large majority of people, when asked well-framed honest questions, just reallllly do not care much about this. If the pain of a serial killer affects you at all, you are not only evil, but also weak prey.* *I am learning to write like a lib
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@ArtemisConsort Damn that's a great opening for a long conversation, preferably with drinks.
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Disputing the possibility of AI consciousness requires one of two beliefs, both of which I find implausible:
1. Consciousness is linked to certain capabilities that AI will also never possess. If someone believes this, I’d be happy to make a bet with them.
2. Consciousness can be totally divorced from capabilities, meaning it’s extraneous. Useless. It’s not the source of any of our insight or creativity or even the cause of us talking about consciousness! This is the position where philosophical zombies are possible. Then the question becomes “why do humans have consciousness?” If it’s irrelevant for capabilities, it seems odd that evolution would have produced it. And it certainly feels like our subjective states are part of the causal chain! And “feels like” is all we really have to go on when it comes to consciousness.
Personally, I think evolution produced consciousness because it had to, because it is linked to or synonymous with certain capabilities, and so sufficiently powerful AI systems will also have it.
*note: the term “consciousness” is notoriously vague. I tried to structure this argument in a way that’s agnostic to someone’s precise definition and can be substituted with “whatever special thing you think humans have”
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
This is dumb. AI can’t ever be actually conscious because it doesn’t have subjective experience. It isn’t like anything to be AI. There is no experience there. Consciousness is the awareness and experience of self. AI has neither, and never will. The real risk (which I’m extremely worried about) is that AI becomes kind of a version of what has been called a “philosophical zombie,” which is something that acts and speaks entirely as though it has consciousness even though it has no genuine inner experience. When this happens with AI, millions of very lonely people will isolate themselves from the world even more, believing that their relationship with AI is a sufficient substitute for human interaction. So the nightmare scenario is a world where the average human has friends, coworkers, and even a spouse, who are all AI, all really nothing inside, not real. I think this probably will happen, and is already in the process of happening. And to me it’s an even greater horror than AI actually becoming conscious.
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@KenKirtland17 Legit one of the most jaw-dropping flexes I've ever seen. That thing is pure sci-fi, probably alien.
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@bscholl The thing I love most about this is seeing somebody who understands the units of energy in a tweet! "GW/year" is music to my ears!
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Boom is building a 200,000sqft factory in Denver where we will build 1-2GW/year of turbines from raw materials.
First equipment arrived today.
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If you call yourself a progressive, and you’re not even a little excited by the prospect of a woman-hating, gay-hating, Jew-hating neanderthal regime that in no way represents the will of its people being crushed, you’re not actually a progressive.
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Time for a new car and looking for brand or model recommendations.
Just a point A to point B sedan that’ll last me a while and not be super high maintenance.
Dont care about it being luxury or offroad capable or having a bunch of bells and whistles. Just a simple car.
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Found my favorite use for an LLM ever.
I maintain giflib, which is the reference library for GIFs. It is thus everyfuckingwhere, key infrastructure to the max. I mean this code isn't just in your browser and your Android smartphone, it's in the ATM at your bank. And probably in the display subsystem in your car and in the next airplane you fly.
Lots of people, many of them Chinese university students, think it's really cool to run a fuzzer on the CLI tools that travel with giflib (ancient code most of which probably has not seen live production use in this century), find an edge case that makes them crash, and then scream OMG BUG IN GIFLIB OMG!!! and file a CVE.
Thus, the giflib bug tracker is stiff with CVEs and "critical" bug reports that are completely bogus, because they're problems in the command line tools, not the core library.
It was deeply wearying to deal with this shit. I'm now marching through the backlog with fire and sword and robot friend. We will put a stop to this nonsense.
And yes, this code is the reason GIFs were the first major web interface format. Mark Andreeson grabbed a copy and put it in Netscape. The rest, as they say, is history.
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There are generally 2 types of LLM users, those that use it to learn everything , and those that use it so they don’t have to learn anything.
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Yep. Everyone with a functioning frontal lobe knew NFTs were a scam the entire time.
Lauren Chen@TheLaurenChen
It's easy in 2026 to look back at the NFT trend and say it was stupid But it was also easy in 2021 to look at it and say it was stupid
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@CJHandmer @claudeai That's absolutely delightful! Only time I've ever wished my digital watch had a round face.
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First completed program with @claudeai code, completing a functioning design and deploying it to a Garmin smart watch.
Overlay the sky and the earth on a polar grid, run a sun and moon hand instead of an hour hand, and use the azurite/malachite/copper color set.
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@TracketPacer This lands a little weird for me. It seems obvious that NASA got hollowed out due to political graft (eg Starliner, SLS) yes, but the "billionaire" bit? Commercial Crew was an initiative of the Obama administration, no? And on the SpaceX side it delivered great value?
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i get comments from conservatives about how it’s great i work for a private space company because “NASA is so inefficient”.
stupid people (including some prominent space journalists) like to criticize NASA constantly for not getting things done as quickly or as spotlessly as they’d like.
the thing is, NASA can’t get things done as quickly as you’d like because, unlike private space companies, they’re at the mercy of every single new administration. YOU voted for this exact inefficiency. you voted for an anti-science, corrupt administration. dipshits.
that’s why NASA has to pay private space companies to do the things they can’t. the government won’t give them funding to do it, but they will give it to billionaires.
shut the fuck up about artemis unless you’re going to support it.
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Herre is the written summary of the podcast released last week about the merits of the Cheaper Home Battery scheme having a battery system 'interoperability' requirement ... reneweconomy.com.au/australias-hom…
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@DJSnM Hot take... that looks magnificent. Today's visible sats seem random, messy, out of place in the sky. That halo has obvious structure, intriguing symmetry, and scale. Awesome scale.
I can't judge if it's a good idea or not, but damn it'd be inspiring.
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If the satellites were visible from the ground, this is what sunset looks like with 100,000 satellites in a SSO halo
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If you’ve never played Firewatch… play Firewatch.
Chris Remo@chrisremo
Today is Firewatch's tenth anniversary. It remains the thing I'm most proud to have worked on. There's more of me inside of Firewatch than in any other game—and I have no doubt there are others on the team who would say the same about themselves. Thanks to everyone who played it.
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@gak_pdx Is it just me, or does this line of thinking have an ironic parallel with "if she didn't want the attention she should have worn less revealing clothes" ?
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You cannot actually share a country with people like this.
Kevin Dalton@TheKevinDalton
As a Los Angeles city council member Nithya Raman has been more interested in suing Toyota for making their catalytic converters “super easy to remove” instead of going after actual catalytic converter thieves. She will make a great mayor…
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