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@futurebird reminds me of "turn the thermostat down at night" type advice. It makes sense if you assume everyone spends all night in a bed loaded up with wool blankets and other domestic creatures, but now all that has been replaced by much less insulating bedding and people who work late, do evening chores, etc, etc.

@futurebird @Bubotomy an item to consider: Due to the low latitude of the Sahara, prevailing winds blow across it from east to west. These winds regularly pick up dust and even sand, and transport it across the Atlantic, where it falls on the Carribean islands and northern S. America. I would think this regular removal of material would tend to reduce the depth of sand in the sahara.

@futurebird ah yes, Lance, Knight of the Strong Arm, who won time and time again ... assisted by performance-enhancing drugs, we now know ...

@futurebird to me, it's not ethical to use the LLM-detectors, for the same reasons it isn't ethical to use the LLMs to generate the fiction. Both uphold the same hideous power structure. But I have no idea whether the author did use an LLM, or what "ought" to happen to them, and I also don't know what people are likely to do.

@futurebird I know the popular LLM-detector and the LLMs are effectively created by entities of the same ilk, and yet, I don't know the answer to either question.

@futurebird @alexwild @MyrmecolNews I remain convinced the author of the mirror test for ants paper intended to be mockery of the whole concept of mirror test.

@futurebird I think your suggestion risks destroying the relationship.

@futurebird rob that hearth, Byeon!

@futurebird when the iceberg compiled the human, they turned off all the warnings and that's why the human is such trash ...

@futurebird welp. More than half the podcasters I listen to are saying it "bew cul"

which is french, approximately.

@Bfordham @futurebird a big business ant is probably a honeypot.

@futurebird but then I'd need to learn how to use a mirror. Never could get the hang of those dang things ...

@futurebird in every decent timeline, there was a great 1980s movie called _Cat Science_ , but in our timeline, the worst timeline ever, it was changed to _Weird Science_, and totally ruined.

@futurebird I have no idea who to follow for anything else finance-related.for anyhting crypto related, I follow
Molly White
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@futurebird imagine, all the delicious silkworms they could have raised with all those mullberry leaves. But nope, they chose ants.

@futurebird
most of the time, it's just a big flat rock in the wilderness, but on special occasions, it is table.

@futurebird
I have horribly mixed feelings about this, because I have long loved SF and fantasy art, and I've seen some great SF insect-inspired aliens, and fantasy insect-inspired fantasy creatures which this "ant" shares much with, especially the human-torso-like aspects of the prothorax (for want of a better term), but from now on, it will always represent the nuance in AI discourse.

@futurebird Platybelodon. https://chasmosaurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/20-Platy.jpg

@futurebird when were these functions added? The TI-34 goes back to the 1980s, so it's possible they were added long ago for reasons relevant to that distant era, and kept for backwards compatibility. (Something similar applies to the behavior of int() on the TI-84)

@futurebird
in most cases it is the world-building that I am most interested in. Wally Broecker's _How to Build a Habitable Planet_ is my idea of a great SF novel ... although he wrote it to be a college textbook.