The deep cut! Praise god!

I know what you mean. I have plenty of interests the fan base of which I don’t really align with.

Yeah I think those of us who go to extra lengths for security mostly do it because we can. Like any other enthusiast.

That was a long walk for a short drink of “I’ve got nothing to hide.”

I was thinking a nice golden throne. More appropriate for a god-emperor.

Okay, you didn’t have to put so much mustard on it.

Unless they are themselves Jewish…

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Oh no, not Lucas!

Yeah but it’s not some big mystery why Margaritaville sucks. The lyrics are asinine and empty. What’s worse: it’s catchy.

Katamari Damacy is the first one.

Oh man that’s… Well done, well done!

Points for “sassy robot.” But you could have described it worse. This was the first one I could identify.

My sense in reading the article was not that the author thinks artificial general intelligence is impossible, but that we’re a lot farther away from it than recent events might lead you to believe. The whole article is about the human tendency to conflate language ability and intelligence, and the author is making the argument both that natural language does not imply understanding of meaning and that those financially invested in current “AI” benefit from the popular assumption that it does. The appearance or perception of intelligence increases the market value of AIs, even if what they’re doing is more analogous to the actions of a very sophisticated parrot.

Edit all of which is to say, I don’t think the article is asserting that true AI is impossible, just that there’s a lot more to it than smooth language usage. I don’t think she’d say never, but probably that there’s a lot more to figure out—a good deal more than some seem to think—before we get Skynet.

I was raised Catholic, but I’ve been an atheist for—oh fuck I’m old—more than half my life. But… Monastic life seems pretty dope. Why can’t there be a secular order that’s just devoted to knowledge/contemplation for its own sake (or the betterment of humanity). I know it kind of sounds like I’m describing a university, but I mean with the personal discipline, strong communal bond, and simple lifestyle.

Good to know. Thanks.

What backup utility did you use?

Ditto Sync for Lemmy. Once the API shit started going down and I first started using Lemmy, I would not have dared to hope that any of the third party apps would migrate here too, let alone multiple.

It’s like people overcorrecting and using “whom” when “who” really would be correct. Ditto “you and I” vs “you and me”. People get corrected enough times to be embarrassed, but still don’t have any interest in correct usage, so they just blanket apply what they think is the rule rather than trying to actually learn any of its nuances. It’s not a perfect analogy, but I can imagine people just reverting to “African-American” as a no-thought safe bet when referring to brown people.

It’s either that, or these specific groups are opening up their parameters and trying to reach/convert outside their base. Which sounds about right for religious groups.

I was just thinking yesterday I hadn’t heard that phrase in a while…