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[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@thomasfbloom More precisely, the 'but not yet' bit assumes, essentially, what is called 'the Gartner hype cycle', and there no more reason to believe that the Gartner hype cycle is true that there is to believe in Marxist theories of history.

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@thomasfbloom Exactly. Personally I'm sceptical about the 'but not yet' bit. Think autonomous vehicles.

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@delong I'm afraid I'm with Slok.

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@Birdyword Mr. Dornbusch to the white courtesy phone. Mr. Rudiger Dornbusch to the courtesy phone please.

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@thomasfbloom My point is that the 'at least' there is doing a lot of work.

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@KathaPollitt You are only thinking that now?

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@Paroles_auteurs This is also called depressive realism.

[TERFTimes @TERF_Times]

Latest corker from @ripx4nutmeg who asks why our national broadcaster is so obsessed with boys in dresses.
"the BBC repeatedly presented boys dressed as girls, children performing as drag queens and children identifying as transgender not simply as subjects of reporting, but as figures to be celebrated"
https://t.co/Pkymx7bu2F

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@PAHoyeck Yeah. There is a line as clear as a charcoal streak on a whitewashed wall from William Shakespeare to Quentin Tarantino.

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

People in 2026 AD: “Movies these days are too violent.”

Shakespeare in 1593 AD: “First, Titus Andronicus killed the Queen’s sons. Then fed them to her. Then he stabbed her to death. Then the Emperor stabbed him to death. There was blood everywhere. Like rivers of blood. You wouldn’t even believe it. The End.”

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@John_Attridge Like Bob Dylan, you mean?

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Reading novels has made me more empathetic. For instance I know that coworkers have subjective experiences of their own

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@daniel_dsj2110 Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

What ever happened to Paul de Man?

[Actually don't tell me - I know]

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@kurtsaltrichter Well total audited bottom line returns of LLM technology currently stand at something between 0 and $10B, so there is a way to go.

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

I think this is useful. Worth sharing:

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Having mastered epidemiology, toilet paper supply chain logistics, bridge engineering, mRNA technology, and the sociology of Indian-Americans, I would like to share my thoughts on the possible uniqueness of human consciousness in the context of contemporary AI advances…(1/223)

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@damekatydenise_ Is that a bottle of cooking oil on the floor?

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@DanielJonesAus Well this is just depressing to encounter.

[Olivia Maurel @maurel_olivia]

Ah yes, the "miracle" of surrogacy yet again...

A couple orders triplets through surrogacy and then... oops... discovers that three babies are “too overwhelming,” so now they’re considering putting one up for adoption.

Imagine manufacturing three children by contract, then deciding one of them is surplus to requirements.

This is what happens when children are treated like products: ordered, delivered, and disposable when inconvenient.

What a grotesque nightmare.

End surrogacy.