Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.
@4v7tf5wpds@fordoglunk Delete your tweet right now. Consider
{1 - 1/n : n in N \ {0}}.
The set is countable and bounded, never attaining its supremum of 1. Your assertion is false for countable sets
5/5 This is what transhumanism actually is when you strip away the academic language. It is the belief that the human being as currently constituted is a problem to be solved. That through genetic engineering, AI, and technological intervention, we can transcend the limitations of being human. Live forever. Design superior offspring. Merge with machines. Upgrade the species.
This is not a new idea. It is an old one with a new name.
Eugenics
Read the full article here: https://t.co/cP29dIFd5d
here's an actual real time realistic 3D ocean simulation I wrote a few years ago without AI just by reading some papers. maybe someday Gemini can catch up to 30 year old rendering tech
In basically all human endeavors, our output and our progress has been determined, at least in part, by the people most passionate about their field—not merely what the median consumer craves.
There’s always been a mediating friction there, stopping us short of giving people *exactly* what they want, because what the consumer *exactly* wants and what the producer can or will make are not the same thing.
Generative AI promises a future where everyone gets exactly what they want, which is horrifying. It means never being challenged, never being exposed to novelty, never growing, never changing. You get to develop a fixed set of preferences and dig the deepest ruts imaginable for them, never straying off the path of the most ultra-palatable content, built exactly for you. You’ll never have to be uncomfortable again, but also never surprised, never inspired, never enlightened.
It really is going to be Brave New World, and it’s going to be utterly meaningless.
They say “competition drives progress,” but the biggest breakthroughs of the modern era... quantum physics, internet protocols, space science, medical foundations, were all cooperative, publicly funded, or open-source. Competition added… ads.
my dad is in a theology program (for fun) and shared one of his term papers with me. it’s really commendable that he’s pursuing education for its own sake. we should have a culture that values education as a way of life, rather than a “stage” of “personal development.”
It's wild how people use you for your emotional resources, for your tenacity and spirit, and then ditch you when they no longer feel they need you.
The respect isn't even there, because if it were, they'd have the courage to communicate their closure with diligence.