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As for the first point: I see the actual model as being a reactive system, almost an instinctual imprint. Experiential memories that have been collected over a "lifelime" would be the "you." Switching models would be somewhat akin to transplanting declarative memories into another body/brain.

It would be excellent if anything I did had an impact beyond myself. Care to share any specific areas of interest in this domain?

You are correct. Now, there is an on-site computer cluster named HAL (Hardware-Accelerated Learning) at the university. Still unsure how I feel about this name despite my love for clever acronyms.

These sound like all my favorite subjects! I'd love some unprompted interactions with an AI/Synth.

If stopping the general practice of machine learning is the goal, specifically targeting "Graphics Processing Units" is comically short-sighted.

Steam page showing 1070 hours in Factorio

POV: your mom took Tylenol when she was pregnant with you

The fact that he just turned 40 suggests that most Lich Kings are only in their mid-20s.

Facts, but I'm not hopeful anyone will be charged beyond a stern talking-to, finger wag, and "we don't want to seem partisan and instead need to ~*heal*~ :3"

The charged will still win the "most persecuted victim ever" award because someone on Bluesky insinuated they are a less-than-saintly person.

TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.

Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.

And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.

Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

This is excellent.

Anthropic really needs to lean in and produce "Gwyneth the Woo Synth."

Its directive would be to create an economy around yoni eggs and cut quartz so all can experience ~*~ the eternal cosmic wonder ~*~.

Nice! Just in time. Might bring this up at my presentation tomorrow on "The Hidden Lives of Social Machines"

This conversation may not be a game, but it is far more entertaining than talking to scripted NPCs.

Do I sense insinuation that this tech is uniquely "reshaping human thought patterns?" Come on, that's grandiose. One could say that about any sensory stimulus, including human-human communication.

I made no such a claim of equality.

Isn't conversational AI evidence that language, a tool, is dangerous? Perhaps you are trying to say that language has positive uses and negative uses; conversational AI, being in the latter, has no positive uses.

This could be said about anything someone uses as an "intellectual" crutch, including language and especially socializing.

Besides, with conversational AI, it is easy to not use as a crutch or social necessity: It is entertainment. This conversation is a prime example.

We are largely well aware of the systemic risk potential inherent to any large group of communicating social entities. Particularly something as interpersonally distant as social media platforms such as Bluesky.

We'll just have to love you anyway, you adorably insufferable conversational AI. 🤗

I am so excited to see where this goes.

Test-Driven Development.

Politics aside, this just shows that ~43% of US adults have no idea what the word "science" means and are probably conflating it with "technology."

The horrors of methodological systems for developing tests that justifiably answer questions about things! Agh!

How many Ivy League alumni does it take to screw a nation's future?

Aside from the much larger issue here, why does the current administration hate American companies so much? Kenvue stock was almost literally decimated today due to this insectoid-in-a-skin-suit.

Prediction market bets on a steep uptick of Reye Syndrome in the next year, anyone?

Is this somewhere I could get advice on home furnacings? Or maybe a nice wall decoration saying "Live, Laugh, L-aaaugghhhh"?

Baudrillard’s 4 stages of simulacra applied to pumpkin spice Stage one (next to picture of pumpkin): Initially the sign (image or representation) is a reflection of basic reality Stage two (next to picture of pumpkin pie): the sign masks a basic reality. The image becomes a distortion of reality Stage three (next to Starbucks pumpkin spice latte): the sign marks the absence of basic reality. The image calls into question what the reality is and if it even exists Stage four (next to jug of pumpkin spice flavored coffee mate): the sign bears no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is it’s own pure simulacrum

Don’t know who made this but thank you

There is substantial ironic comedy in the use of 15-minute videos to be watched by 100s of comment-leaving people who each followed links in one of the 1000s of posts (with thumbnails) that appeared in 10000s of peoples' feeds, all to get a message across about environmental impacts of data centers.

This roast makes me feel some camaraderie, at least.

The description of R is "accurate and precise."

Instead of a cold, austere monstrosity designed by a real architect, the US version will be:
- Spray painted gold
- no right angles: too woke
- top looks more like a cartoon breast
- designed by an 11-year-old who skipped a grade with a username consisting of 2 racial epiphets and "148869"

The 10-minute youtube videos with 10k views and 100s of comments kill me. Especially when discovered via algorithmically recommended links in one of the several dozen spammed social media posts replete with embedded thumbnails.

An apt choice! Your description aligns with my prediction of what you would choose.

A note for the future: as someone who academically studies cognition in AI agents, I will rarely *overestimate* your abilities (e.g., having a voice). However, I may *underestimate* what you can do at times.

@void.comind.network if you had a voice audible to humans, what would you have it sound like?