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@pozorvlak @glitzersachen @darkuncle @regehr
And you can't have thinking without the layer of emotion. Not because reasoning is emotionally motivated, but it's obviously important, so you'd need to build that in to the system.
These people think the whole brain is just emergent and not tailored to managing the human body in human contexts over deep time.
It's nonsense!
@pozorvlak @glitzersachen @darkuncle @regehr
I will bet the farm on it. Or the condo... or whatever.
intelligence is hard just like robotics is hard.
We have programs that can make plausible text if you give them nearly all the text ever made. The world isn't made of text. Thinking isn't text.
What we don't have are systems that can reason deductively while adjusting their foundational assumptions inductively. The whole approach isn't even right.
Anti-vaxers love to talk about how sometimes people who have been vaccinated might get sick anyways.
But that just means to prevent an *outbreak* you need even higher rates. But I feel like that's the thing they don't understand: what an outbreak is.. these things used to just burn through cities and towns. How you had to have three kids so maybe two could grow up.
How people used to not always name babies too soon because... well it might be less painful if they died.
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I'm not good with the foreign policy but... is Venezuela not allowed to have an army or something?
WHY should I care about this? Are they gonna invade NYC? Can someone explain.
I think they are laser cut. But the middle bit is a nice hunk of wood and heavy.
@floatybirb @liferstate @mayintoronto
Not angry those are antennae.
I bought some signature punches for a bookbinding project, and these can normally be very expensive so I was skeptical that they'd be any good at this price... but these things work GREAT. It's super easy to make neat signatures and bind your own notebooks.
You do need to buy an awl, thread and needle but that's it.
ya i guess
I don't think so. These things don't come up much since most of them do not live on that salary at all.
But maybe there is an ambitious person. I'm literally thinking of making a table with a sign that says "congressional draft" and taking down names until I find someone.
That pay just isn't cutting it. Not for all that drama and terrible job security.
No wonder they all take so much cash from lobbyists.
Our congressional district is poor. In fact it's the poorest in the country. No one is giving any politician thousands of dollars in donations.
Hence our representation sucks.
We need a real public servant.
I will defend your honor on the internet if you come and save us please.
I have been searching high and low for a new congress person. It's not going well. And I think the problem is obvious.
The kind of congress person I want would need to live on their congressional salary of $174k which seem like a lot, until you remember that this person would be:
* A harassed public figure with security needs
* Need to maintain two residences in DC and the Bronx
* Have to be around other congresspersons at their work.
Until there is a big measles outbreak in NYC and we have to test just how strong the firewall is.
It's not supposed to be tested.
And some people live on the other side for very good reasons, like being immune compromised.
A few people have suggested it was meant to be "seen from a distance" and "in candle and torchlight for reflections"
And that's an OK theory... but if someone said that about my face I would not think it was a compliment.
I'm watching a video about "the crown of St Wenceslas" which is from 1346 in Prague. All these comments and the guy in the video keeps saying how 'beautiful' it is and I'm just not seeing it? Ugliest thing I've ever seen in my life.
I guess it's "beautiful" that it's from 1346 and so well preserved. And naturally it's not made for the "modern eye". But... good lord. It's like someone broke a stain glass window and cleaned it up with tape.
Am I being unfair?
mmmm I should write a little "chain pharmacy" themed level for the #backrooms wiki. I've never contributed before but this might just motivate me.
(But only AFTER I complete "the short story I'm not allowed to talk about until it's done")
NYC chain pharmacies have always felt like portals to purgatory, but ever since the lockdown days there has been something wrong with āDuane Redeā on a deeper level. They feel like those stores in Cuba that have no product and no customers but are open for obscure tax reasons or something. Itās really noticeable since they are huge, and always the most run down thing on the block even in the most gentrified hoods.
Ant mimics look like AI generated ants. Both of the following photos made my "is that AI" sense twitch, but these are both real photos of ants along side a rove beetle mimic in the first and a spider mimic in the second.
Maybe the way that AI is adjacent to mimicry is part of what makes it creep me out so much.
