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@alexwild @octothorpe

I haven't watched this species, but having watched Formica (black garden ants) tending they do sometimes... eat one or two. I don't know why. The aphids don't seem to mind?

@burnitdown

Not messing with that without a big multiplication table at hand.

@alexwild

I like the photos where it seems like they have noticed the camera.

@Susan60

Very tired so I read this as "Freud chasing a beautiful black butterfly" and spent longer than I want to admit wondering what that would symbolize.

@Eliot_L

The cuneiform system is VERY old. We are talking 2900BC, so the Maya zero, is much later. But also probably independent of the zero from India.

@alexwild

The "New York Carpenter Ant" in NY for once.

And hoarding all the aphids. Good for her!

@AT1ST @apophis @llewelly

This is unspeakable.

@RogerBW

no... oh dear.

@shortstories @n1vux

cuneiform numbers aren’t bad at all. though it’s disturbing how they have place value but no zero

I just added in the cuneiform with the other number systems on a whim, not really thinking about the implications of it not having a zero (really, I forgot that they didn’t have zero it is a base 60 system, They *do* use place value, but with great ambiguity: it’s one of the things that makes translating old numeric tablets difficult.)

This caused many excellent questions!

“why don’t the ancient ones have a zero?”

twas not invented then, my child

@knowuh

What is the lecture about I’m curious

Content feudalism.

Saw a clip of a guy who was making fun of "AI slop soul music" -- but, because the AI song was played on the Joe Rogan show, he would only play very short clips: he didn't want to get a content strike from youTube.

These people have put the music I grew up with in church in a blender, performed necromancy, puppeted the dead and that's fine... but if a person who *isn't* powerful uses more than three seconds of "their intellectual property" that person will be punished.

@jabgoe2089

That's the part they could map... but they knew it kept going and I think some people had some notions that circumnavigation might be possible. But mostly the world just seemed big and infinite in those days I think.

The fastest you could travel was on a horse.

@DaveMWilburn

The lack of regulations and taxes, and the ability to manipulate the local government matter much more than long term efficiency.

Ants would NEVER.

AWN. That is my new reaction to so many things like this that just are not logical or efficient even if you accept the premise of their existence.

All that air conditioning. I don't get it.

@petealexharris

I will not be accused of ignoring this tech and not giving it a "chance" --but yeah.

AZ is cool and water rich, what a perfect place to build huge data centers... that could go anywhere in the world.

I guess they have...solar power?

Not even getting into the question of IF this is what we should be building, what about the WHERE?

@Tallish_Tom

"The more specific your need, the less likely an AI is to meet it."

This exactly.

I asked chatGPT to make some problems for me. It couldn't understand what I was asking for.

Also they have put up a new paywall today you get five chats a day. Let's see how many people sign up.

(I will write a program to make some amusing problems for me, I already have an English dictionary I use for my "wordle cheating" programs... this should be fun.)

@uriel

OK but what happened to everything being so much safer? That was the part that got me interested in the first place.

I think that part has been forgotten. This is just "don't want to hire a driver"