nick

likes = endorsements

[nick @BiigNick]

Maillard brain rot

[Henry @_HMSP]

Did it never occur to y’all to caramelize the onions, toast the bread, and melt the cheese?

[nick @BiigNick]

@TheStalwart Always has been

[nick @BiigNick]

@thombo89 You might be interested in reading up on Richard Watson and Michael Levin’s work “evolution by natural induction”

Also Dennett’s idea of the free-floating rationale is very relevant here

Teleology comes about gradually, but once it’s there - it’s there.

[nick @BiigNick]

@TheStalwart Hasn’t humanity been essentially paperclip maximizing for some time now ? Does the world need everything we produced today ? This all sorta feels like the same quest as always, just faster

[nick @BiigNick]

@taijitu_sees Swiss cheese has holes. The more cheese you have the more holes you have. The more holes you have the less cheese you have. So the more cheese you have the less cheese you have ?

[nick @BiigNick]

@ajlamesa MARTA should be treating every day like they have a first date with the residents of Cobb and Gwinnett

[nick @BiigNick]

@ajlamesa MARTA should be treating every day like they have a first date with the residents of Cobb and Gwinnett

[nick @BiigNick]

The problem with this line of thinking is that density subsidizes low density. Preferring low density is fine, but people should understand that sprawling communities don’t cover the full service and infrastructure costs they generate

[Corbie @Corbienest]

People who like walkable cities should live in them.

People who prefer lower population density should live where they can have more space.

Both options are good and serve different purposes. Let people like what they like.

[nick @BiigNick]

AI doesn’t enable cheating. The assignments do. They don’t measure what we think they are measuring and this was true before LLMs too

[nick @BiigNick]

Cheating is only a problem because education has become largely about securing marks and credentials not true understanding. If understanding were to be the ultimate goal again no amount of AI use could possibly help you cheat that.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

Genuinely, can someone give me the steel man version of the rationale behind the new “give everyone AI” university strategy? What is the theory of the case here? Do universities think it’s sustainable to ask students to pay over $90k per year to cheat their way through college?

[Kim @Gwazi16]

Dude there’s two old guys that sit in the balcony seat and make jokes about how the movie sucks the whole fucking time

[nick @BiigNick]

@ftlsid Are you familiar with vervaeke’s work ? Pretty similar

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

Jane Jacobs identified exactly this sentiment as a great destroyer of urban life. Cities aren’t works of art, they aren’t “the product of a single unifying vision.” Artists and architects are little tyrants that want to make cities into lifeless sculptures.

Cities are organisms.

[Taijitu Observer @taijitu_sees]

You can solve the hard problem of consciousness by putting googly eyes on everything.

[nick @BiigNick]

ChatGPT told me to get back to work… what a drag

[Bia @BeatrizGietner]

Oh hell no 😭

[Mr Business @mybigcrack]

Needless to say I'll now be transporting my lava via other means

[nick @BiigNick]

@MoundLore St. Louis

[nick @BiigNick]

@credenzaclear2 Is it fudging if we can’t even prove that cognition and consciousness are separable ? Why should we assume p-zombies are even possible in the first place ? They’re only so easily conceivable because we experience the world from the inside out

[nick @BiigNick]

Been saying this. It’s the most artsy coded job where all you’re really doing is operating a contraption

[Spirangelos @spiroferrer]

Baristas literally spend their time in a steamy room pulling levers on dangerous machinery converting a raw commodity into a value added product for near minimum wage and yet every 2 months we decide that isn’t working class bc they have tattoos or something.

[nick @BiigNick]

@barely_th3re It’s like if bikes are dangerous why isn’t Amsterdam a war zone lol