Mon Mothra

Still impressive

Ah ok that’s far less impressive and maybe tips things more to the “cool for robotics” and away from the “bioethics nightmare”

Dude sounds like he’s falling asleep while talking about starting another war

"SHIT"
"FUCK"
"NO"
"FUCK"
"SHIT"
"FUCK"

oh christ I wasn't even thinking about the hassle of resetting the cat for DST

I only smoke single origin fair trade meth. It comes with a short bio of the motorcycle club chapter who made it on the back of the package

I will say that watching the video is the most uncomfortable I’ve felt with a biology thing in a very long time

I would read this and watch this video with an enormous amount of skepticism until someone else reproduces it, but it’s plausible and I hope we proceed more cautiously than we probably will

This goes even deeper than conscious though. What is reaction to negative or painful stimuli?

And you can’t just ask the LLM because it will either say it isn’t conscious because it’s been told not to do that or it will say it is conscious because all the data in its model as created by humans

I know I’m conscious (whatever that fundamentally means) because I have access to experience of my inner thoughts and feelings, which I can relate to other people but which they cannot directly share. I know that you are conscious because you are very similar to me. We can’t do that with a machine

We’ve been handed a really interesting philosophical question on a platter and it’s a bummer how much of trh reaction to it amounts to sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming

How do you know if an octopus is conscious?

How would you know if a machine is conscious? “A machine cannot be conscious” isn’t a reasonable answer to that question

It’s possible we actually made a philosophical zombie and the whole point of that thought experiment is you can’t really tell if you have one

I lean very strongly towards “LLMs are not conscious” but I think they really demonstrate how we don’t understand the consciousness other than our own and the replies to this post seem to focus on a “god of the gaps” philosophy in which anything a machine can do is not a sign of consciousness

Notably none of the people alive for the chop chop part lived to see the liberal democracy part

Maybe I should just embrace the DC spirit and do it on the street, a few years ago a guy down the street from me rolled an engine lift down the sidewalk to pull his engine

If I had a garage I would try to do an electric conversion on a Volvo 240, alas

I cannot *stand* it’a a wonderful life

I really miss my 2001 outback wagon :(

Sure it got 17 mpg, had the world’s most annoying clutch and leaked oil from every seam but

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

An old screenshot talking about Google on top. It says "Google is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit. Below is a screenshot from The Phantom Menace, where Anakin Skywalker is walking next to a building and behind him you see the shadow of Darth Vader.

Ok but I woke up Saturday morning and was apparently sacrificing things as an American but nobody has told me why I should be doing it

35% of adulthood is figuring out which things have a filter that it would probably be a good idea to clean or change every now and then

A few years ago something happened on Twitter that permanently broke my ability to look at these charts

lol they’re gonna try to just walk away in a week

Folks saying this is AI but no ai would ever use the phrase “army believed to be casualty”, this was made by human hands

Someday he'll fire RFK Jr. too, because he's a savvy politician, and RFK Jr. is viscerally disgusting to the human sensibility. When he does - and he will - public health will have to grapple with the fact that it was doable, and we could have tried harder, sooner

Drone Dominance: Pentagon to order 30,000 one-way drones in 'next few days' - Breaking Defense The DoD is about to choose the winners from its "Gauntlet" unmanned exercise and provide successful systems to military units "over the next five months," a DoD official said.

One wonders how the Pentagon is going to square the circle of “only wanting to spend $2K each on an essentially disposable drone platform” and “Blue UAS compliance without Chinese parts.”