Dr Dennett’s writing made me realize I didn’t know quite as much about consciousness as I thought I did—and broadly, just because you’ve experienced something doesn’t mean you understand it.

The world is poorer now, especially when so many people need to learn that very lesson

The advertisements for sketchy investments on this website—commercial real estate, helium, and wheels I’ve seen so far—give a real 1920s vibe to the whole place. They might as well add some art deco and bath tub gin mixed with turpentine to the UI.

lol what

“Do no harm” don’t forget the Hippocratic Oath you take when you sign up for YouTube

Also, here’s a question—what does more harm: reporting honestly as a product reviewer about a bad product, or lying to millions of people to not hurt a corporation’s feelings?

The year is 2036. The NYPD is holding another massive parade to honor its fallen, this time having been killed in Nigeria fighting Boko Haram.

A bomb kills 60 at the parade. It was in a box truck that had been parked in a bike lane for 3 days.

#LGM

Right there with you Seth Meyers

Trampled by the moon
Though the corona endures
The sunshine falters

#haiku #haiku challenge #Eclipse2024

Biden every day now

Robotbeat🗽 ➐ Mechanistically, no. I’m not even sure what it means for a human brain to “do inference”, we can’t separate our thoughts into “training” and “inference” because at a fundamental level we are not feed-forward parametric models:

Idk looks like the gains started to stall/flatten about 1950–when suburban development really took off—and then increase again about 1970, which, *checks notes* is right around the time where seat belts were required in cars.

N O T H I N G I N B I O

They have headways of like five minutes too.

That’s easy—my computer

it seems younger and younger people are becoming 80 Years Old

lol

What if they’re all dead and Harry is gonna be king after all and they’re hiding it because Racism/TERF Island will go straight apoplectic over Queen Megan.

I expect, in the long run, the phenomenon of storming headlong into modelling something while remaining willfully ignorant of its properties to bear little fruit