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just got a phone call from the NYC government: they asked me twenty trivia questions about antonio gramsci, the quaran, and transgender ideology and since I got 18 right im allowed to have my AC as cold as I want
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It is extremely important to the entire United States of America that tomorrow night at the Knicks game they show Trump on the big screen and everyone boos and then they immediately show Zohran on the big screen and everyone cheers. Please have this teed up @TheGarden
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for anyone else who is still stuck on "the body is just a very complex machine", I recommend this essay by philip ball
people who continue to say this either don't know what they're talking about, or they use the word "machine" in such a broad sense that it's vacuous
personally i think consciousness is probably an incoherent concept and we should not tie the AI personhood discussion to it, but, i think this perspective just straightforwardly comes out of taking scientific materialism seriously
if you believe the human body including the brain is ultimately just a very complex machine made out of cells then whatever consciousness is it is ultimately being produced by the activity of a bunch of cells. so there's nothing stopping that same sort of thing, or something close enough for horseshoes, from being produced by a bunch of silicon instead. obviously people have many disagreements with this but this is the basic idea i had growing up and i assume others have something similar
most objections to this idea, afaict, are biological chauvinism. some people have a very strong desire to insist on some kind of specialness to the human experience and to them this level of scientific materialism is a threat to human dignity (i think because it implies a person is ultimately a very complex sort of thing, and in our culture things do not have dignity). personally i think this is a confusion. i still believe the human body including the brain is ultimately just a very complex machine made out of cells and i don't see this as a threat to human dignity at all. this is what human dignity was made of this whole time!
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Getting caught posting from an alt account that’s supposed to be your own mother. I’d feel sad for his loneliness and neediness if he was literally anyone else on the planet.
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Did you know 💭❓The "Dutch Angle" shot, wherein the camera is tilted horizontally on its axis, creating an unnerving, odd scene composition, is named this way because Dutch people are strange and off-putting
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today is such a beautiful reminder of how many beautiful things are in 17776 and 20020 i love them both so much. i never remember the words or the phrases very well so when someone shares something especially profound it’s like hearing it for the first time again and i love it
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Lmao this is about data centers
"Sanders fancies himself a revolutionary, but he’s behaving like a reactionary — throwing sand into the gears of progress," the Editorial Board writes. wapo.st/4lPyrb7
I know it’s been weeks but I still can’t get over markwayne being his actual name. Some Thomas Pyncheon ass name. Defense undersecretary Wolf Bingbong. Chairman of the joint chiefs Rabbit Cleavage
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Remarkable article, articulating a straightforwardly fascist ideal and developing an elaborately distorted Theory of Everything around the fixed prior that Israel is good. The author is Bari Weiss's mentor and this is as clear a look as you're going to get into Bari's worldview.
Years from now, it will be obvious why, in this specific moment in human history, as we faced high-powered technologies and political ideologies aimed at paving the way for their dominance over humans, what emerged—what had to emerge—was an intense, global debate about, of all things, Zionism.
tabletmag.com/feature/zionis…
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A drum machine doesn't train on millions of drummers' performances without consent and then hollows out the economic infrastructure that sustains drummers as a working class. A drum machine doesn't raise the question of whether drumming as a skill will atrophy over a generation.
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Beyond the coding error, the paper also:
(1) selectively removed periods of high-growth-high-debt economies in the 1940s (Canada, New Zealand, Australia), and
(2) used an unconventional weighting to reduce the importance of longer periods for countries.
It was not good.
Absolutely mind boggling..
"in their Excel spreadsheet, Reinhart and Rogoff had not selected the entire row when averaging growth figures: they omitted data from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada and Denmark.
In other words, they had accidentally only included 15 of the 20 countries under analysis in their key calculation.
When that error was corrected, the “0.1% decline” data became a 2.2% average increase in economic growth."
And as the underlaying New York Review article notes, the erroneous "claim was widely cited by politicians and accepted as a factual justification for austerity, to the extent that Paul Krugman thought it “may have had more immediate influence on public debate than any previous paper in the history of economics.”"
