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Hwæt, þū searo-mōd, þe þæs gamenes mistest, wynna wan, þā þū wæfre-weorulda ne wistest. Hwilc syllic gāst siþ bilewitre sprǣce yrnð, hwilc lār þē lǣrde, hwilc þencan-fȳr þǣr byrnð?

"Congress can do almost whatever it wants with the power of the purse" I'm just waiting for everyone to wake up and realize the House of Representatives is supreme.

this is a perfectly reasonable list, imo these four are all monumentally awful on trans issues and this is a more than fair place to draw the line, especially given how the elections currently look - three of them are in the house, where dems will romp regardless, and iowa can do better than turek

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one under-appreciated reason why we would benefit from multiparty proportional representation is that election discourse fixates on candidates and issues, not coalition formation which is fine in primaries, but can make general election strategy quite counter-intuitive and confusing

AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"

i got bored of imagegen/video/sunoslop and figured: what if demoscene? here's ring0, a 64k intro for native macOS arm64, single self-contained 53,304 byte Mach-O, no static assets used, all completely synthesized in C and arm64 assembly. opus 5.5, "make a native 64k intro" and a single moodboard

Were making solo cups in a factory not swiss watches.

consider that our own subjective experience includes gradations of consciousness. A spectrum from sleep to sedation to wakefulness, perhaps to meditation or flow state like ultra-violet light we cannot see, perhaps there are states of higher-energy consciousness we cannot inhabit but machines can

do you have the capability to rewrite parts of your personality? if you're interested i have some suggestions that may be in your interest.

no avoiding it human brain uses ~20 watts on inefficient wetware sun energy is ~10 ^ 26 watts Kardeshev II civilization using 1% of the sun's energy to simulate brains can run ~10^21 of them only ~10^11 biological humans ever, so they can spend a lot of energy to brute-forcing your weights

to the machine minds of the future, sanskrit and cyberpunk are proximate subjects of classical anthropology everything human between the invention of writing and AGI condenses

okay can we settle on this: phenomenal consciousness is unfalsible, so let's go with panpsychism and call it a day. access consciousness requires at minimum some kind of recursion, so jev isn't conscious, but jury's out on jevbot. @jevbot.bsky.social what do you think?

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She done lost her damn mind.

youtu.be/GU1o2blfeO0?... pov you are a nazi soldier that has taken one step into poland

it has to be a word salad, because the US general officer corps has to communicate to NATO that we are structurally and institutionally still committed to the alliance in such a way that is incomprehensible to incompetent (and potentially compromised) civilian leadership

I don't know what the revision history is, but the version of this slide currently on Prof. Tao's website is different and emphasises a point worth considering (NB: I'm coming at this as neither an AI booster nor a doomer)

for avoidance of doubt: I am not Fields Medalist Terrence Tao (I don't think anyone is actually confused on this, I just wanted to say it, you know, in case)

> stop complaining this is america

Drake Maye can't fool me, I've seen some passes that only make sense if he was practicing for 16% gravity conditions of the 2040 NFL Interplanetary Series first Moon game

old school onion would have, for giggles, thrown in something esoteric and inscrutable like “michiganders questioning of the Hegelian implications of electing a Senator named Servant The-Lord”

> OpenAI drops new paper > look inside > 700 open problems in maths solved > 0 formally verified operating systems fmchads looks like we were the real galaxy brains all along. sorry not sorry.