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intensely_human,

I recommend playing Penguin Pursuit on Lumosity

intensely_human,

Oh look. Musk hate. How refreshing

intensely_human,

Are you regularly deleting git repos?

intensely_human,

That or an oil change

intensely_human,

Every cockroach you see on the counter has a thousand cousins hidden in the walls.

intensely_human,

I can’t even imagine being a full-grown adult who doesn’t know what it feels like to have consciousness altered by drugs.

It’s like meeting someone who was born in a car, and they’ve just never ever gotten out of that car.

Like there’s a door in your wall marked “to alien universe” and you just walked by it for 40 years and never wanted to peek inside? What?

intensely_human,

IP stands for “intellectual property” as far as I know, and copyright is one form of that

intensely_human,

I mean if the way you get there is by modifying the thing, then it’s a mod.

Modding is to speciation as counterfitting is to convergent evolution.

intensely_human,

It’s like reading interdimensional news from a world that is still sane. I’m glad Japan exists

intensely_human,

We’re not “trying to make every episode real”. Technology’s direction and human foibles are predictable. Black Mirror writers just aren’t blind and have a good sense of what’s coming down the pipeline.

That’s why it’s called Mirror. It’s about showing us who we are.

Sorry if that’s too horrifying for you, but this goes way beyond imitating the last person to mention these problems.

intensely_human,

Yes. Nothing about this idea sounds like a good idea. Honestly I’m kind of pissed at the dude for saddling his wife with this gift.

intensely_human,

Recent science agrees sexual selection is a much bigger factor in recent human evolution than natural selection. And sexual selection is conscious.

So, depending on what you consider “design” we have at least been consciously bred for traits by previous generations of humans.

intensely_human,

It could still be a bad idea even if the profit motive isn’t involved.

One might be trying to help with the big surprise stash of heroin they leave to their widow, and she might embrace it fully, but that doesn’t make it a good idea or good for her.

intensely_human,

I’ve got that biographical detail and it’s kind of weird being able to remember times with my friends that they can’t remember.

Just feels lonely. Like imagine being the only person who can remember more than an hour ago. How your life would feel different than those living within that 1-hour window.

It’s like that just with a different scale.

intensely_human,

and they’re both pretty cognizant about what this is and isn’t

This will be communicating with a dead person. Nobody has any idea what this and what it isn’t.

It’s like planning to go to Morocco and thinking you know in advance what it’s gonna be like.

This is new technology. People who think they know the outcomes here are deluding themselves.

intensely_human,

Think of how many family recipes could be preserved

We solved this problem long before we invented writing.

LLMs do not enable the keeping of family memories. That’s been going on a long time.

intensely_human,

I went back and read old emails from my mother who died in 2009. I had unread emails from her.

One of them contained my grandmother’s peanut butter cookie recipe, which I thought was lost when she passed in 2003.

It might have been nice if an LLM had found that instead of me, but it felt very amazing to discover it myself.

intensely_human,

I think it would be the opposite of upsetting, but in an unhealthy way. I think it would snap them out of their grief into a place of strangeness, and theyd stop feeling their feelings.

There is no cell of my gut that likes this idea.

intensely_human,

So Musk should have “shut his stupid fucking mouth” instead of trying to form a nonprofit such as OpenAI?

I’m not sure what problem you think Musk having his mouth open is causing here, other than making your embarrassing, four year old, irrational hatred flare up.

Biden Administration Tightens Mileage Standards to Buoy E.V.s | The new rule requires automakers to achieve an average of 65 miles per gallon across all models by 2031. (www.nytimes.com)

The new standards require American automakers to increase fuel economy so that, across their product lines, their passenger vehicles would average 65 miles per gallon by 2031, up from 48.7 miles today. The average mileage for light trucks, including pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, would have to reach 45 miles per...

intensely_human,

It’s an example of why over-complicated laws are terrible. Trying to get too specific with the law’s prescriptions makes a weird game that results in weird plays and inefficient solutions.

intensely_human,

You can use weasel words to characterize it how you like but yes it’s very predictable that a lot of people won’t like this.

intensely_human,

Whatever it takes to lower our greenhouse gas emissions

This attitude is why we need to be really, extremely sure about this climate change thing. Since we are sacrificing everything else to it, if it turns out to be a false alarm we will have fucked ourselves royally for no reason.

intensely_human,

Well conceivably closing the truck loophole would put a stop to that. But it’s conceivable that instead of Ford responding to the new “innovate or die” law by innovating, it’ll respond by dying.

intensely_human,

I mean if he’s talking legal prosecution that will depend on them having committed crimes, and that’s 100% fair if they did.

intensely_human,

Wow. People literally just cannot tell the truth about what this man said.

The article is full of deliberate misinterpretations of his point. It’s ridiculous, and I don’t know how people aren’t disgusted by it…

intensely_human,

Here’s what he actually said:

They’re trying to say that I said, ‘Black people were doing better under Jim Crow.’ I never said that. They are lying. But why would you be surprised? They always lie," Donalds said.

“What I said was, you had more Black families under Jim Crow, and it was the Democrat policies under H.E.W., under the welfare state that did help to destroy the Black family,” the Republican clarified.

What he said is simple and hard to get wrong. The people who are getting it wrong are lying, on purpose, about what he said.

intensely_human,

Yup. It’s like Vietnam, but instead of the VC in the bushes it’s the Russian army.

intensely_human,

And die like it did in the cold war.

Except it only appeared to die. Ukraine gave up its nukes in the 90s on the belief Russian aggression had “died” in the cold war.

intensely_human,

We’re too nice. We work hard on making a society in which basic security negotiations aren’t necessary, but the drawback is that we forget how to do that.

We’re too successful in keeping people safe, and now we don’t remember how to deal with monsters.

intensely_human,

Well, you did use the word “the” correctly so I’ll give you that

intensely_human,

Good. I hope our enemies are stupid enough to keep doing small attacks, so that have a chance to adapt.

intensely_human,

Really? Despite the fact they’re doing an Eastern European attack that will stop the capability of future Eastern European attacks?

State Department official resigns after Biden administration says Israel not blocking Gaza aid (www.middleeasteye.net)

A career State Department official resigned from her post on Tuesday, saying she could no longer work for the Biden administration after it released a report concluding that Israel was not preventing the flow of aid to Gaza....

intensely_human,

Yes. This stupidity definitely has grass roots.

German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' (www.hrw.org)

- Volkswagen (VW) in 2023 commissioned a deeply flawed audit at a plant in China’s Xinjiang province operated by a subsidiary of Volkswagen’s joint venture with SAIC, a Chinese state-owned carmaker....

intensely_human,

Not sure what you’re referring to exactly. VW is saying they can’t comply with the new law because China is not transparent enough. Sounds like that’s the truth.

Would you expect them to simply stop doing business in China as a result of this lack of transparency?

intensely_human,

Yeah I think I agree. The law should be: if you can’t positively confirm it’s clean, you can’t use it.

We should have standards for the treatment of people, and strive not to participate in or reward those who treat people in unacceptable ways.

If we have to take on some difficulty for that, so be it. Maybe if our difficulty gets to the point where I’m hungry, I’ll choose differently. But until then I’m willing to take a break from this or that car brand until they can figure out ethical sourcing.

I do think, to whatever extent possible, the change should be implemented smoothly. Maybe a rapidly-growing tariff on such goods for a few years, followed by a ban on their import, instead of an immediate ban on the import.

It’s not good for a country to create an unfair marketplace. And it is an unfair marketplace when rules which acutely affect only certain people drastically for the good of all, are implemented too quickly to adapt to without major setbacks.

Just saying it should be phased in, to minimize local economic tearing.

intensely_human,

These aren’t “consequences”. These are new rules we’re imposing on good people.

The fact you view this as a war between you and the companies being regulated means I hope you are never a regulator. You see it as an operation to take them down. That’s fucked up.

intensely_human,

I’ve already explained my position and you’ve already demonstrated an unwillingness to interpret what I say generously. You’ll get no more conversation with me until you stop trying to trap me.

intensely_human,

It’s his piercing eyes

intensely_human,

No, art is not for thinking. Books are for thinking. Art is for experiencing.

intensely_human,

No, it’s not. The prerequisite to creating valuable art is ability, not some stance toward intellectualizing visceral media.

intensely_human,

One of my favorite lines ever

intensely_human,

Sure yeah, thinking afterward is great. Just like you can think about sex, music, food, etc.

Just don’t stand there thinking “What am I supposed to be thinking about with this one?”

If an artist’s message is so small it can be put into words, they should just tack a notecard to the wall.

intensely_human,

Holograms are still just 2D images on smoke right? Do we have holograms?

intensely_human,

Part of the disorientation of the first cold open

intensely_human,

Then play Star Wars: Squadrons for at least 10 hours (you may split this up with sleep if you like, or a little ham), then watch Rogue One

intensely_human,

Wow they really did it.

They put the um in the coconut and shake it all up

intensely_human,

The right thing to do is to get a job at Monsanto, acquire a copy of the gene sequence, then smuggle it to some off the grid lab to do one’s own cross breeding.

Like Praxidike Meng did with that protomolecule yeast.

intensely_human,

It’s only a danger to the other farmers legally. They could be sued for using patented genes.

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