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@ihtesham2005 I add that the "city with no mayor" will ultimately make an agentic decision, and that decision, along with all the other unique decisions, becomes the mayor in summation. A figure head that produces your personality. All along a chronological line.

A MIT professor who built the world's first neural network machine said something about intelligence that nobody in Silicon Valley wants to admit. His name was Marvin Minsky. He co-founded MIT's artificial intelligence lab with John McCarthy in 1959. He built SNARC the first randomly wired neural network learning machine in 1951, as a graduate student at Princeton. He won the Turing Award. He advised Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey. Isaac Asimov, who was not a modest man, said Minsky was one of only two people he would admit were more intelligent than him. In 1986, after decades of building machines that could think, Minsky published a book about something far more unsettling. How humans think. And why we are wrong about almost everything we believe about it. The book is called The Society of Mind. It has 270 essays. Each one is a page long. Together they build a single argument that most people, when they first encounter it, reject immediately because it is too uncomfortable to accept. The argument is this: you do not have a mind. You have thousands of them. What you experience as a single, unified self making clear-headed decisions is not a thinker. It is an outcome. The result of hundreds of tiny, specialized, mostly mindless agents competing, negotiating, overriding, and occasionally cooperating with each other beneath the surface of your awareness. You do not decide things. You are what is left over after the arguing stops. Minsky was precise about this. He wrote that the power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single perfect principle. He called this the trick that makes us intelligent, and then immediately added: the trick is that there is no trick. There is no central processor. No ghost in the machine. No unified self sitting behind your eyes, calmly evaluating options and choosing rationally. There is only the parliament. And the parliament is always in session. This reframing destroys the standard explanation for every failure of self-control. The reason you procrastinate is not laziness. It is that the agent in you that understands long-term consequences is losing an argument to the agent that wants comfort right now, and neither of those agents has a decisive vote. The reason you change your mind the moment someone pushes back is not weakness. It is that the social agent, the one that monitors status and belonging, just outweighed the analytical one. The reason willpower fails is not a character flaw. It is that you sent one small agent into a fight against dozens, and you called that discipline. Minsky had a specific line that breaks this open completely. He said: in general, we are least aware of what our minds do best. The things you do with the most apparent ease, reading a face, walking through a crowded room, understanding a sentence, catching a ball, are not simple at all. They are the products of staggeringly complex agent networks that run so smoothly, so far below conscious access, that you experience them as effortless. The things that feel like work, the logical arguments, the deliberate choices, the careful plans, are actually the clumsy surface layer, the small fraction of mental activity you can observe at all. You have been taking credit for the wrong parts of your own intelligence. The practical implication is the one that most productivity advice misses entirely. If your decisions are not made by a single rational self but by whichever coalition of agents happens to win the moment, then the game is not about training yourself to be more disciplined. The game is about designing the environment so that the right agents win without needing a fight. This is why removing your phone from the room works better than deciding not to check it. This is why writing one task on an index card works better than building a sophisticated system. This is why commitment devices beat motivation every time. You are not strengthening your will. You are changing the conditions of the argument so that the outcome you want becomes the path of least resistance. Minsky spent his entire career building machines that could imitate intelligence. What he discovered in the process was that natural intelligence, the kind running inside every human brain on earth, is nothing like what we think it is. It is not a single flame burning in a single chamber. It is a city. Loud, chaotic, full of competing interests, with no mayor. The people who understand this stop trying to win the argument through force of will. They learn to build a better city instead.

@txstreetfights2 Unbeweaveable

Wild brawl breaks out in a Whataburger in Waco TX #fight #texas

@roflfights "Happy to Hit"

A heated situation unfolded at Walmart in Sherwood, Arkansas, where employees engaged in a physical altercation while on duty.

@elonmusk I have an amazing science solution to complement you (your engineers) Mr. Musk. How do I go about speaking with your valued representative? I have myeloma but can travel to your shop.

My idea of a good time is working with amazing engineers to create incredible technology 🤩 The Tesla chip research fab will have all the machines needed to do logic, memory, packing & masks in one building for a lightning fast development cycle. Heaven 💫

@GrandpaRoy2 My design would incorporate an arcade claw to grapple, lift and carry back the netted intruder after it fell.

Two Russian FPVs are shot down by a Ukrainian FPV armed with Ukrainian-made Ptashka net launchers.

@YossiBenYakar @TeamGerritsen What is wrong with people? How ghastly. Have they lost their minds?

t.co/yyTUS2tYyZ FLASHBACK: Pure evil in Gaza. Hamas-UNRWA officials caught starving, torturing, and publicly executing their own civilians — for the “crime” of accepting free UN humanitarian aid without paying Hamas extra taxes to fund their jihad war. In the footage: Gazans who took food are thrown into cages, brutally beaten, starved for days, then dragged before a bloodthirsty mob. Before slaughtering them, Hamas carves the word “THIEF” into their backs — giving the crowd permission to rip them apart like animals. This is not “resistance.” This is not “freedom fighting.” This is savagery. This is a death cult. THIS is the true face of Hamas — the same Hamas the United Nations continues to protect and fund. Don’t tell me all cultures are equal. Share this. The world needs to see the barbarism they’re defending.

@elonmusk I have been diagnosed with terminal cancer, not long to live, but spent I last 6 yrs R&D on novel Neural Mapping hardware (science not mindful). I dont want to take it to the grave. I was an expert. Could you have your tech contact me ?

Neuralink is restoring speech to those who have lost the ability to speak

@_Postive_Vibes Wait, wait for it. Wait... wait...hold on, waitttt, ..... NOW!

🚨WATCH: In a jaw-dropping statement, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi announced his acceptance of a POPULAR MANDATE to lead a TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT post-Islamic Republic. He has also urged Arab partners in the region to RECOGNISE the transitional government of the Iranian people.

@OliLondonTV They had taken all the fun away and controlled most aspects without really understanding why anyone would engage a VR experience. They wanted all the data without developing a user experience (no avatar below the stomach? What??). And so here we are.

Meta announces it will shut down the Metaverse after losing $80,000,000,000. The company is shutting down Horizon Worlds and scaling back Reality Labs, the division responsible for VR and metaverse development, after nearly $80 billion in losses.

@truth_teller58 Be kind to each other, especially those who may have a disease ✨️

This woman has a sickness, folks.it MUGHT BE alcoholism. You think? Let's show some Grace towards those that are struggling....Typical Bud Light drinker

@simonateba History repeats itself. Grade 6 social studies class (C+).

Be brutally honest: Should Trump and Netanyahu avoid assassinating Iran’s newly named Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei — son of slain leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — and give peace a chance? Yes or no?

@CENTCOM Rest in Peace 🙏

CENTCOM Update TAMPA, Fla. – Last night, a U.S. service member passed away from injuries received during the Iranian regime’s initial attacks across the Middle East. The service member was seriously wounded at the scene of an attack on U.S. troops in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on March 1. This is the seventh service member killed in action during Operation Epic Fury. Major combat operations continue. The identity of the fallen warrior will be withheld until 24 hours after next of kin notification.

@JimFergusonUK It's to replace most of the aircraft carriers over time now the skys are cleared.

🚨 BREAKING: U.S. STRATEGIC BOMBERS ARRIVE IN BRITAIN: TRUMP: IRAN TO FACE THE BIG ONE. Three U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer bombers have landed at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, placing powerful American strike aircraft on British soil as the Iran war escalates. The 146-foot aircraft are capable of flying over 900 mph and can carry up to 24 cruise missiles or dozens of precision bombs, giving the U.S. the ability to launch long-range strikes deep into the Middle East. Each bomber is worth roughly $317 million, meaning more than $1 billion in strategic airpower has arrived at the base within hours. RAF Fairford has long served as a key U.S. bomber hub for operations in the Middle East, and its activation signals a major expansion of American strike capability. President Trump has warned that Iran could soon face “the big one.” With strategic bombers now positioned in the UK, the next phase of the conflict may be approaching fast.

@SusieM414141 Nonsense. Its silly that they may actually believe these are legitimate tactics. Hard to watch.

These protesters have pitched a tent on private property over a city issue, and the owners called them in for trespassing. The “leader” tells the police she's the liaison and they need to go through her so she can relay information back to them. The problem is, she’s not very bright. Watch as she makes a fool of herself. What should happen to people who think they can protest on private property or public streets? It’s an issue in our current environment.

@oyochickporvida @Rightanglenews @grok They supply us Boots of Spanish Leather.

BREAKING - President Trump has just announced that the United States has completely cut off all trade with Spain after leftist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez refused to support the United States and allow American forces to use their military bases.

@Killer_Image Hello, please email me at davmor80@mail.com (not gmail). It's regarding a personal friendship in Calgary about 1980. I think it's your fam, I hope so. I dont want to chat on here. Thanks 😊

@Killer_Image How kind! I wish I was in such a beautiful place to see a great female artist. I have her Motomami album, so hearing some of it live would be wow 👌. Happy New Year

@OliLondonTV O I miss my mum

King Charles Christmas message: “With the great diversity of our communities we can find the strength to ensure that right triumphs over wrong.”

@MichelleMaxwell Imagine if this had not been uncovered (in another world).

🚨BREAKING NEWS: More fraud exposed in Minnesota!

@jimmyfailla Lol. Then he kicked them out of his clubhouse !

ZERO chance Trump recovers from this latest Democrat photo dump of him with an underage woman.