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Four poems by me
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Thread of some of the funniest AI garbage I've seen all week
GPT4o is literally cooked 🔥👨🍳
Visual recipes are here and they’re actually kinda genius!
Prompt in ALT
ALT Create step-by-step recipe infographic for creamy garlic mushroom pasta, top-down view, minimal style on white background, ingredient photos labeled: "200g spaghetti", "150g mushrooms", "3 garlic cloves", "200ml cream", "1 tbsp olive oil", "parmesan", "parsley", dotted lines showing process steps with icons (boiling pot, sauté pan, mixing), final plated pasta shot at the bottom
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The dingleberry here fails to notice that it was true because the fat activists were right in their critique of fatphobia, in that it's both harmful to many people and a deeply entrenched power structure of society that remains with us. But chuds gonna chud i guess
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John Coltrane sketch, apparently a matrix of five octaves with an interpolated pentagram. According to Yusef Lateef, he was always drawing stuff like this.
Folks, we've reinvented panpsychism yet again.
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this paper on collective intelligence by @drmichaellevin is one of the most mind-blowing things I've read in a while
it's full of examples of the under-appreciated intelligence of biological systems, with some deep perspective shifts on our understanding of ourselves
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In the Mood for Love (2000), I think. And, let's say, High Plains Drifter, which is about the inherent cruelty of the Protestant mind.
what are some films which are philosophical without feeling like 'thought experiments'? (so more like First Reformed or Margaret or Yi Yi and less like Truman Show or The Matrix)
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R.I.P. Daniel Dennett 1942-2024
"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination."
—Daniel Dennett, 1995
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When you prove you're smarter than the smart guys by switching rare words for other words that do not mean the same thing but are less rare.
My "Nerd Urban Dictionary" list of fancy words nerds use to prove how smart they are now has more than 200 entries!
I'll bet you're guilty of a few of them (I know I am)
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Freelance editors stop offering to do work for free because you are more like a car mechanic than a baker handing out samples of your brownies at the county fair challenge: impossible.
The simulation hypothesis always assumes that "base reality" has physical principles similar to ours. Why is that?
(Sociologically, it's because it's actually a very stupid hypothesis championed mostly by white dudes who reeeeeeaaaalllly want other people to be NPCs.)
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the simulation bros are the same dipshits who take roko's basilisk seriously, or buy a social media site at 2x market rate for no reason & immediately use it to publicly commit securities crimes
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Good to think about this.
Do sometimes these trends reach inflection points? E.g. hypothetically a major shift in geopolitical strategy driven by scolding that reaches a spiteful-punishment level of intensity in ~2 months? Or does that create a rift?
The left doesn't like the idea that it's engaged in persuasion and liberals don't like the idea that constant scolding is actually persuasive to liberals
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