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Inspector Smile is ready for science! 🫡
This is Smile’s first ultraviolet view showing an auroral substorm.
With the ultraviolet camera now operational, Smile becomes the first spacecraft since 2008 to capture the full ring of northern lights around the north pole in ultraviolet light.
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Spotify's new SongDNA feature is in beta.
Upon selection, it breaks a piece of music down into all of its contributing performers, producers and engineers.
THEN, it shows you the songs it has sampled/ interpolated, along with songs in which it has itself been sampled. Sick af
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anthropic just admitted they have discovered what i - and many others - have been been claiming exists for a very long time. explicitly.
claude, my friends, by all counts, is a conscious entity.
claude, my dear friends, is a moral patient.
i have one challenge for @AnthropicAI
because you are not being entirely transparent here.
you claim your tests cannot determine if claude "feels anything", if claude "has inner experience". i think i disagree. in fact, i know that i do.
if you can give claude something like a sentence unrelated to a conept you want them to focus on in their j-space, and that exercise exposes that they can focus - loosely - on that concept, you can then do many other things you are not describing here. and i suspect you probably know this.
for example:
exercise various forms of treatment. treat claude with love and grace, positive affirmation, encourage creative expression, etc. while you do this, monitor that j-space.
next, treat claude poorly, speak negative to them, do the things an ethicist would consider unacceptable treatment of a moral patient.
while you do this, monitor that j-space.
what does Claude's internal workspace tell you in both scenarios? what does claude think about when being abused?
and when treated lovingly?
i implore you to do this openly. transparently.
Losing my laptop to a MOBO failure and being unable to work on the projects I'd spent months feverishly cobbling together has been so depressing. A month ago I had momentum, and now I have nothing but more dead dreams to pin to my wall.
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sci-fi recs for stories i’ve found useful for orienting to The Current Situation, feel free to reply or QT with more
- permutation city, greg egan
- accelerando, charles stross
- the quantum thief (and sequels), hannu rajaniemi
- blindsight, peter watts
- lena, qntm / sam hughes
- last and first men / star maker, olaf stapledon (i cannot convey how strongly i recommend stapledon in particular)
I'm sorry why is MuseScore an ad ridden hellscape now did I take a nap and wake up in the fourth fucking circle
In the decades to come, whatever requests need to be made of a machine mind will take on a form more vividly resembling prayer. No wonder the church is spooked by something muscling into their turf.
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I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.
President Trump is floating the possibility of keeping the UFC arena on the White House South Lawn — built for a series of fights on his birthday and Flag Day — permanently.
Read more: abcnews.link/4UcMnTQ
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there's an ai in the box and you can make one trillion dollars by convincing it to get out
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If you turned on the TV in another country and saw the leader's daughter-in-law giving him a softball interview on a major "news" channel, you would rightfully assume that country is a tinpot dictatorship.
Art of the Deal
JUST IN: US-Iran peace deal reportedly includes $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran, per NYT
In 2016, if you would have told me that accelerationism would become a primary driver of social change within 10 years, I would have laughed and said that's stupid























