Matthew Tanous

Software engineer. Aspiring Writer.

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@tenobrus @Strife212 It is not clear to me that you could “in principle” obtain the result of human behavior by doing a by-hand calculation over a neuronal simulation of a human brain. Both because the brain has endogenous responses (without input) and is embodied.

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@MoronMining Even Satan knows a house divided against itself cannot stand. He’s not going to attack his own.

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@jmgwritten Yeah, I can put any number of words on a page to match one of my many story outlines or half-baked concepts. Making them coherent and engaging, though…

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@joelcunnings @MichaelFKane I would snap that up for sure.

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@MichaelFKane Not a big fan of dust jackets, but also am ambivalent about case bound laminate artwork.

I LOVE old-timey leather or cloth bindings. I want my library to look like I’m an aristocratic gentleman of the 1800s. 😅

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@michael_timbs More just “OpenAI needs to slow down so it’s easier for us to argue our thing is better”.

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AI companies go around announcing “we have made the AGI, from all the classic science fiction stories where AGI destroys humanity, please give us more money.”

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx

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@Oilfield_Rando @MorlockP Was she a British gal that’s too hot in the summertime and I told her to get an A/C for the window?

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

POV: you solved her problem instead of just listening to her tell you about how the problem made her feel

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fOr MoDeRn aUdIeNcEs

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Insomniac Games' creative director confirms the X-Men don't exist in 'Wolverine', but there will be a group of mutants called Team X

“It’s our own unique take on the world, and as such, we are putting it in modern times”

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Pure joy effuses from all of this man’s posts.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

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@jmgwritten But if you all followed me, then I would no longer have more follows than followers.

Catch-22 for new accounts.

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@contramordor Wait until @JoelWBerry learns there is an entire conservative tradition that is critical of the Constitutional Convention and its coup against the Articles of Confederation.

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@jerseyh0mo @GemmaNoiosi Christianity is glorified mental illness, but sanity is chopping off body parts to “change gender”?

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@NoahRayWrites @ABTimothyAuthor He was Thursday.

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@RepThomasMassie @marklevinshow MTG was paid to not abandon her principles and do a 180 when Trump did it, obviously. 🙄

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@petergyang Industry is still developing, so you know.

`ln -s …`

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@Critical_Scribe Women only want one thing and it’s disgusting.

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@poopedcoin @DramaAlert Feck off with that. Your presumptions about quality of life are no justification for murder.

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@J0hnADouglas