Mathiev Nancel

Dragon Ball Z meme: It's over 9000!!!!

When people ask me what my article's word count is

SAM ALTMAN: "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an Al model ... But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart."

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

Not far from the premise of hpmor, and I'd love to read a comedy take on it.

Is there a website for this? Or is it a Bluesky exclusive?

Would love to read about the writing of a certain duel scene...

No Sausage for Old Men

The people with mental illnesses are the French you made along the way. Or something.

What mésange?

...à considérer ? 🤷
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

*at the turn?

That would be a neat TTRPG idea.
Lead with the weird sound coming from some indefinite direction, describing it as well as one can without using the term "flip flop"; then after a short chase, at the turning of a corridor, the Creature. The Centiflop. The Coolipede. The Sand Stalker.

*outside decorations, too

Considering what passes for class in his world, I'm imagining tacky gilded decorations and unprecedentedly incompetent chains of command.

Hardwood floors.

But when I took to My Hero Academia, very late in the game yet still before it ended, I could binge chapters like a madman, all until that last-published one at the time. Suddenly, I had to wait!
Basically, it's an inertia thing. The faster and the longer I go, the more violent the crash.

Ah, but I think I'm integrating in that notion the fact that I could read a lot in one go, entirely oblivious of when I would be caught up. I'm up to date with OP as well, and I've been so for years, so I'm progressing at the speed of the releases: no wall per se...

- Parents Have to Choose Between Offsprings
- This is why we can't have good things (i.e. humanity ruins a great opportunity, be it science-sharing aliens or the second coming)
- Trolley Solutions

I'm not a native English speaker, but I've often found myself lacking an idiom for "that time when you're cruising through a story and abruptly hit the last published chapter/page/episode, even though the story ain't over." Always feels like hitting a wall, especially since I rarely see it coming.

Event(ful) horizon?
Recency wall?
Present collision?
Wavefiction collapse?

I'm not a native English speaker, but I've often found myself lacking an idiom for "that time when you're cruising through a story and abruptly hit the last published chapter/page/episode, even though the story ain't over." Always feels like hitting a wall, especially since I rarely see it coming.

Looks like someone forgot the Great Irish Spring Depression of 1962.

Maybe thinking just isn't the Great Threshold we want it to be.

I think we've got it backwards. (Lukewarm now:) For centuries we've so proudly fancied ourselves as the only beings that "think" (🤷‍♂️) that we've internalized it as "anything that can think is superior, like us", and that oversimplification makes us now fret over whether computers can do so.

I don't think I've seen many (confident) definitions of "thinking" or "intelligence" recently. Could have missed some, but I suspect that people got careful about those, because recent AI (even pre-LLM) has shown how quickly those goalposts may need to be moved.

I absolutely agree, but that falls into the yes-buts IMO. There existed a time where smart people would have laughed at the idea of a computer beating a grandmaster. I suspect that it's only when it became clear that it *could* happen, that the question got demoted to just a scale problem.

Chess, Turing test, poetry, music... every time we make computers pass these thresholds, we come up with a new "well yes but." To me they can "think"--according to past criteria, and in 20 years they will "think" according to today's criteria.
What matters is that this does not make them our equal.

Tepid take: I don't have a strong opinion on whether computers can think BECAUSE I lack a convincing definition of "think." We keep moving the goalposts about what's a meaningful difference between human and machine thinking-cognition-intelligence-whatever.

be there in 10.

Wait, you guys know each other?

Make that concept with friends-suggested TV shows and I've got an eccentric manor to sell you.