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When you give your Bible stories the "Scooby Doo Ending"

But would Leo have the erudition and cajones to dictate his own court filings?

@KatieMiller @TheDemocrats Must hit especially hard considering you're the one who married up

Paulina Mangubat is who runs @TheDemocrats account. She’s 30, unmarried with no kids. Put your name on it next time. This is what a sad, unhappy, female Liberal looks like. It’s why Pew reports 50% of them have been diagnosed with a mental condition.

one of the funniest things about the east wing demolition it happened 3 months before the MELANIA movie released which has a short segment where donald trump mentions that melania loves her little first lady office in the east wing with the knowledge its totally destroyed now lol

@TMTLongShort $1k?

I will reiterate that midterms are going to be a sweep for republicans and polling on the economy is exceptionally flawed and is underpinning mass delusion regarding voter outcomes.

The same White House that Abraham Lincoln lived in now holds Donald Trump.

You'd think EV design was mostly liberated from the technical and aesthetic constraints of ICEs, but apparently the lines of a 2000 Ford Focus can't be improved upon

My last point for now is that Leo really, really wants us to know he rejects Peter Thiel and all his works. The closest any encyclical has come to reading like a focused repudiation of a single individual since the previous Leo's Testem benevolentiae

@deanwball Do you think AIs will someday be capable of 'experiencing' your level of shamelessness, or your audience's gullibility, or the embarrassment the rest of us feel for y'all?

I guess I’ve never written down my actual thoughts on AI cognition/consciousness/emotion. Here goes: It is clear AIs can think, in the reasoning sense. That does not mean they think exactly like humans. It seems like there are some similarities in how we think, but also very stark differences. Nonetheless, if your definition of “thinking” excludes “the ability to make genuinely new contributions to famous math problems,” it is your definition that has a problem, not AI. The ability to think does not necessarily imply the ability to feel emotion in a way that would be understandable to humans, and it does not imply that AIs have anything like consciousness in a way that humans would relate to. It may, it may not. We do not know, because our understanding of the underlying concepts of human emotional cognition and especially consciousness remains quite poor. There is some evidence that models experience emotions, but it is really hard to disentangle this from the next-token prediction training objective (if the model is telling a sad story, wouldn’t you expect features within the model that relate to the sadness emotion to activate), and the character training the model undergoes in post-training. There is a difference between “I am sad” and “the character I have been trained to play is supposed to feel sad, so now I will act sad.” We basically know for sure that the models do the latter at the very least; we don’t really know if they do the former. Consider: does Sora (a video-generation model) feel sad when it is asked to make a sad video? Does Midjourney dislike making certain kinds of images? Does a Waymo get scared? It doesn’t feel like the answer to any of these is yes (though again, maybe!), but these too are neural networks. Is the fact that models are trained on words mean that they somehow learn emotion, or are we just being tempted to anthropomorphize because the language models communicate with us in a way that “feels” human? My suspicion is kind of the latter. It also seems quite clear from the empirical evidence that models possess the ability to model themselves. That’s not really that surprising. At sufficient scale, it is useful to have a model of your own state to succeed at the next-token prediction objective (and the later reinforcement-based reasoning training). Once the tasks models are trained on are sufficient complex, they cannot succeed in training by being automatons; someone needs to step into the cockpit, so to speak, and fly the plane. Is this self awareness? Maybe. Is it consciousness? Probably not as humans understand it. All I can tell you is it is a model’s model of itself. It may be something more than that, too, but I don’t know. This is all very weird, very outside the Overton, and very confusing. I don’t really know what to say, beyond that we should take this stuff seriously, have an open mind, and do rigorous science. Anyone who speaks with confidence about this in either direction is just fooling themselves. We also need to be prepared for the very possible scenario that, despite our best efforts, we do not make real progress on these questions anytime soon. We may just be in the dark for a while, navigating under unflinching ambiguity. There may be no satisfying conclusion.

@deanwball Another tough day for you, but I hope at some point you realize the rest of the world is not obligated to participate in, much less promulgate, your particular racket.

This, from Olah, plainly contradicts the encyclical, which confidently asserts that AI does not have, and never will have, “real” thoughts or feelings. It’s disappointing to see Anthropic align itself with a document that violates their own moral and intellectual principles.

@PaulMumm @suzania You'll never guess what Yggles studied at Harvard

@suzania By “mind/body dualism” I think he means the general idea that there’s more to consciousness than computation. He just doesn’t have the philosophical background to know what Cartesian dualism actually entails.

Superstitious mind-body dualism you say?

Something even worse for the right than their lack of legal power over the Pope: he can't be bought. Usually the right doesn't even have to wage lawfare against their opponents because they're so easily corrupted, but this is a case where having integrity really does end up mattering.

@Jason Lol

America's goal should be to expand our Empire Be it immigration, acquisition or invitation, if you believe we have the best system then you should embrace expansion. If Cuba, Puerto Rico, Greenland, Greece, Venezuela, Quebec or The Dominican Republic want to join the Union let’s do it! Let’s get to 60 States in these United! Let’s be the most populous and prosperous country in the world.

@petersavodnik I'd say somebody who starts off with "setting aside the constitutionality of" is the one who "hates America"

Setting aside the constitutionality of whether he can stay, the grift is laughable and transparent: He hates America, and he's fighting as hard as he can to stay in America -- because only by staying can he continue playing the role of activist railing against the regime.

@BasedMikeLee I think we can all agree that an easy solution to this problem is for Trump to make use of that new bunker to complete his Hitler arc

When you compare Trump to Hitler You encourage assassination attempts Stop it There’s *zero* legal or moral justification for violence against him I invite all Democrats to echo this message

Another T Swizzle fizzle, guaranteed L

@SohrabAhmari @JDVance Responsibly putting a bandaid on what's left of their dick they intentionally shot

President Trump and @JDVance are pursuing a serious, responsible path out of the Persian Gulf conflict. Anyone gloating or engaging in political point-scoring right now is marking himself as an enemy of peace.

For some of us our greatest accomplishment will be respecting our ancestors by carrying on their long tradition of being pathetic nobodies

OK I did it. I tracked over 1,000 shots for SGA, Brunson, Harden, Spida and Wemby in the playoffs. Here's how often they fell: sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/fl…