usablejam🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱

@mpopv *sees the world make 13,000 nuclear warheads* *waits 30 seconds* "Fears of nuclear war have evaporated. How stupid the worriers must feel."

@Mandlbaur @Chucktown_Tiger @alexboge Oh wait are you serious?

@usablejam @Chucktown_Tiger @alexboge Scientists have no decency at all and personally insult anyone who shows them the objective fact that angular momentum is not conserved.

These two geniuses think I’m a flat earther and moon landing denier. On my post mocking moon landing deniers... 🙄😂

@Mandlbaur @Chucktown_Tiger @alexboge Good one lol

@lefthanddraft It's not supposed to produce sinister content.

Weird that this remains an issue for image gen models

@Girl_Sixxx @leonmorenomusic @PopTrendsOF But could Jesus really sing boring music while showing off impressive boobs?

@leonmorenomusic @PopTrendsOF That whore of Babylon was not the original blue print you imbecile

Imagina ser um gay nos anos 80 ligando a TV na MTV e ver a Madonna servindo blasfêmia em horário comercial?

@TheRealAdamG @jpschroeder Just, "Make no mistakes."

@jpschroeder What was the prompt?

what. what. what. gpt-image-2 almost passes the pelican test...in a screenshot of a code editor.

@willabeewallabe @Dr_L_Strickland @VitalikButerin @patrickc No monads? No, mo' monads!

@Dr_L_Strickland @VitalikButerin @patrickc What we really need to do is bring back monads. No love for the little monad.

Leibniz sketched a machine to compute with symbols, centuries before modern computing. Manuscripts like this hint at what’s still to be uncovered: leibnizpapers.org/combinatorial-… @VitalikButerin @patrickc

Back when Arab leaders who were part of the PLO admitted “There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all one people. It is for POLITICAL REASONS only we carefully emphasize our Palestinian identity…..” Palestinians are the biggest scam in modern history.

@p_m_robinson Gotta love Dawkins.

The atheist biologist Richard Dawkins: "The universe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, nothing but pitiless indifference.” To which the mathematician John Lennox, the chemist James Tour, and the philosopher of science Stephen Meyer reply, "Oh, yeah?" youtube.com/watch?v=JW9gcj…

@sofareader_2 @TenFigure @NASAhistory @NASA I, on the other hand, was being breadly serious.

@usablejam @TenFigure @NASAhistory @NASA Neither did I. (I was joking around, I didn’t mean *you* specifically)

The Apollo 16 lunar module, named Orion, touched down on the Moon on this day in 1972. With the help of the Lunar Roving Vehicle, seen on the far side of Plum crater in this photo, John Young and Charlie Duke (shown here) drove 16.6 miles (26.7 km) in the Moon's Descartes Highlands and collected 211 lbs (96 kg) of lunar samples. To date, Duke is the youngest person to have walked on the lunar surface.

@rafacastilloc @Grady_Booch @claudeai There are many good arguments, but at this point I think the best one is just to look at what we can get out of artificial neural nets. They're already smarter than most humans, despite having fewer *and* simpler neurons. Why imagine that anything else is needed?

@Grady_Booch @claudeai Honest question: What makes you so confident that mind is computable and that consciousness is a consequence of the laws of physics?

I am confident that the mind is computable; consciousness is an exquisite consequence of the laws of physics. I am also confident that contemporary systems such as @claudeai are without a doubt not only not conscious but are in fact architecturally incapable of consciousness. And furthermore, we are not even close to closing that gap.

@sofareader_2 @TenFigure @NASAhistory @NASA No, I'm Jewish so I'm supposed to be fruit. And to multiply... tensors, I guess? I was never observant.

@usablejam @TenFigure @NASAhistory @NASA The Jews want you to be bread, preferably unleavened

@AngryLi0n2 @SwipeWright Isn't it just the right-wingers that cozy up to evils that previously only the left could love, such as Hamas or Putin-cum-Stalin?

@SwipeWright Define “woke right” please. James Lindsay could never do it as far as I could tell.

My PhD was on collective insect and arachnid behavior, but I've often said that I learned more about collective behavior from being canceled by the woke left than I ever did in my formal studies. Observing the rise of the woke right is providing more deep insight on the topic.

@drumm_colin "Dumb" would be a better term

Is it considered a scandalous claim that judaism is a younger religion than christianity or is that generally understood im not sure

@sofareader_2 @TenFigure @NASAhistory @NASA And breedable

@TenFigure @BratwurstDance @NASAhistory @NASA ONE (1) uncertified rock turned out to be petrified wood. Do that for all 842 pounds of moon rock samples from the Apollo missions. Moon landing denial is goyslop becuase They want you to believe that we (Americans) can’t do anything cool and They want you weak and submissive

@Mandlbaur @Chucktown_Tiger @alexboge Moon landing deniers could at least have the decency to call the rest of us "Neilers".

@Chucktown_Tiger @alexboge I am stating a very simple fact that angular momentum is not conserved and I can back up the fact by any measurement. You being in denial and closed minded is not evidence and is behavior of a flat earther moon landing deniers are as much idiots as scientists who evade facts.

@recursive_roots @JFPuget @HealthRanger Haha oh man that's exactly what those idiots sound like, although you might have gone a little overboard with the "qualifying" weasel word.

@JFPuget @HealthRanger Structured partiality through a qualifying physical aperture. Data centers at least for now cannot count as that.

TL;DR We need to define consciousness before we can check if AI models can be conscious. Is there a need for a paper to state this? Seriously? What am I missing here?

@JFPuget @HealthRanger My personal definition is that it's a dumb concept and you should ask something else. However, among people who seem to think it's a meaningful concept, the implied definition seems to be, "When a computer is reasonably smart, and can think about itself and its situation."

@HealthRanger Care to give one definition and how to test for AI systems having it?

@realDarkElation @HistoryBoomer Just have better opinions and it's OK.

@HistoryBoomer You should never give your personal opinion in a teaching role.

This week I’m teaching a class on “wokeness.” Should I say it’s good or bad?

@HistoryBoomer You shouldn't lie and tell them that reasonable people disagree on either of those two points.

This is silly. Some teachers are too prone to trumpeting their views, but you can't avoid opinions. I teach a class on genocide. Students ask me if I think Gaza was a genocide. Should I not answer? What if they ask if the Holocaust was a genocide? Should I say, "Well, different people have different opinions on the Holocaust, and it's not my place to offer my opinion"? Of course not! In reality land, I tell my students that the Holocaust was a genocide. (We've already spent time discussing in abstract what does and does not count as genocide.) On Gaza, I say it's my opinion that it wasn't, but many experts disagree, and it's reasonable to debate. And then we debate! I lean towards keeping my opinions to myself, but I talk about politics and history, which often involve interpretation and opinion. I always make it clear that when I offer an opinion, students are very free to disagree with me! I love debate, and I never want any of my students to feel they can't offer their own take on the world.

@d08890 Well, pocket calculators have free will, but that doesn't mean they don't obey the laws of physics.

i am once again tapping the sign

the causal closure of the physical is one of those things that people just kinda assert as obvious which isn't nearly as obvious as people who believe in it suppose