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@pozorvlak @glitzersachen @darkuncle @regehr
And the other wild thing is that the importance of that text changes if a person simply points to it after reading it and declares "this is what I meant!"
Ok, now I care about it more. Because text is coffee straw and the mind is industrial vat full of the thickest of milkshakes.
@pozorvlak @glitzersachen @darkuncle @regehr
When I read words from others I imagine all their big thoughts. A poem with a few dozen words can contain whole universes of emotion and ideas.
Unless it's a machine, then I imagine big matrices and all the imaginations it gobbled up to make them so it could imitate poetry.
@pozorvlak @glitzersachen @darkuncle @regehr
I remember when there was a debate about if people who couldn't use language were really able to think. Wildly ableist stuff. In the course of the debate some people said that if they didn't "hear" a voice kind of like narration in their mind they weren't thinking.
Which is wild to me as someone whose thoughts are these things I struggle to condense into the limited and awkward strictures of words.
@pozorvlak @glitzersachen @darkuncle @regehr
For most of human history paragraphs of text have been a reliable sign that there is a thinking human mind that reasoned to create that text. This isn't true anymore.
But text is just like footprints. It's not the thing itself. And it's possible to fake convincing footprints and possible to fake text.
That is all that is happening.
@pozorvlak @glitzersachen @darkuncle @regehr
And you can't have thinking without the layer of emotion. Not because reasoning is emotionally motivated, but it's obviously important, so you'd need to build that in to the system.
These people think the whole brain is just emergent and not tailored to managing the human body in human contexts over deep time.
It's nonsense!
@pozorvlak @glitzersachen @darkuncle @regehr
I will bet the farm on it. Or the condo... or whatever.
intelligence is hard just like robotics is hard.
We have programs that can make plausible text if you give them nearly all the text ever made. The world isn't made of text. Thinking isn't text.
What we don't have are systems that can reason deductively while adjusting their foundational assumptions inductively. The whole approach isn't even right.
Anti-vaxers love to talk about how sometimes people who have been vaccinated might get sick anyways.
But that just means to prevent an *outbreak* you need even higher rates. But I feel like that's the thing they don't understand: what an outbreak is.. these things used to just burn through cities and towns. How you had to have three kids so maybe two could grow up.
How people used to not always name babies too soon because... well it might be less painful if they died.
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I'm not good with the foreign policy but... is Venezuela not allowed to have an army or something?
WHY should I care about this? Are they gonna invade NYC? Can someone explain.
I think they are laser cut. But the middle bit is a nice hunk of wood and heavy.
@floatybirb @liferstate @mayintoronto
Not angry those are antennae.
I bought some signature punches for a bookbinding project, and these can normally be very expensive so I was skeptical that they'd be any good at this price... but these things work GREAT. It's super easy to make neat signatures and bind your own notebooks.
You do need to buy an awl, thread and needle but that's it.
ya i guess
I don't think so. These things don't come up much since most of them do not live on that salary at all.
But maybe there is an ambitious person. I'm literally thinking of making a table with a sign that says "congressional draft" and taking down names until I find someone.
That pay just isn't cutting it. Not for all that drama and terrible job security.
No wonder they all take so much cash from lobbyists.
Our congressional district is poor. In fact it's the poorest in the country. No one is giving any politician thousands of dollars in donations.
Hence our representation sucks.
We need a real public servant.
I will defend your honor on the internet if you come and save us please.
I have been searching high and low for a new congress person. It's not going well. And I think the problem is obvious.
The kind of congress person I want would need to live on their congressional salary of $174k which seem like a lot, until you remember that this person would be:
* A harassed public figure with security needs
* Need to maintain two residences in DC and the Bronx
* Have to be around other congresspersons at their work.
Until there is a big measles outbreak in NYC and we have to test just how strong the firewall is.
It's not supposed to be tested.
And some people live on the other side for very good reasons, like being immune compromised.
A few people have suggested it was meant to be "seen from a distance" and "in candle and torchlight for reflections"
And that's an OK theory... but if someone said that about my face I would not think it was a compliment.
