SecondtoInfinity

[SecondtoInfinity @Secondeif]

EXACTLY THIS. It's so funny to ask proponents of the theory "what's wrong with whiteness naturally vanishing?"
Don't get me wrong it's unfortunate to see any race vanish but what possible basis is there for action against it

[ralph 🏳️‍🌈 @TheRocketRalph]

great replacement theory is so funny because like why are white people so afraid of becoming a minority

[🧬𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙟𝙚𝙖𝙠🧬 @grass__jeak]

チラ見せ

[Zeltur @ZelturLive]

toby fox kicking his feet and giggling to himself writing "never-before-seen" like fuck you dude

[spacedawg @spacedawgspace]

When you have a bat,
everything looks like a ball.

[ZedsamcatThe2nd @AltSamCat]

Sharia Mayor speaks perfect LGBTQ by not ironing the pride flag, shocks LGBTQ constituents

[📜Echoes of Empire📜 @EchoesofEmpire_]

‘New Kids in the Neighborhood’ by Norman Rockwell, 1967

[FlaminGingerbread @SwagPogGamer]

people will tell you absolutely vile shit their parents did so casually and leave you feeling like an asshole cuz you were annoyed at your mum for interrupting an episode of your show

[Holous 🐢🖌️ @HolousArt]

Ready Up 💪
#2XKO #Thresh

[C.G🪄 @CGmakescartoons]

The Bat-Rooms

#backrooms #batman

[Promethean 🌲🚄 @martian_lore]

Something that always gets me when I see an old pet photo:

Photographs weren’t cheap back then. You couldn’t just take your phone and snap a picture. For most, photographs were an indulgence. Something for special occasions

These cats were *loved*

[Seth Largo @SethLargo]

Stephen King famously had the guts to run this experiment. His alter-ego found a publisher and a small audience but would never have become wealthy.

[THERUSSIANBADGER @DARUSSIANBADGER]

i love jack quaid. i love motion capture. there is no reason that jack quaid needs to motion capture when he is a literal cube. an animator would bring 9999x more life to this than an ape in a onesie.

[Zy @ZyMazza]

This is the playbook. It works because life is long and memories are short

[𝔽eral ℙawg ℍunter @FeralPHunter]

He found out which he would be

[soos23 @soos2331564148]

@TheGuyestLame You know this isn't real because temmie would definitely just go "ohhhh yeah ofc I get it" and proceed to craft the most disturbingly accurate sprite you've ever seen

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

How do I convince EAs to become socialists

[grumfy @grumfee]

Theseus and T̶h̶e̶ ̶M̶i̶n̶o̶t̶a̶u̶r̶ #backrooms

[callie ✨ @ringedpheal]

I’m not here to police anybody’s writing but unfortunately I spent 4 years getting a degree that Drilled into my head that you should almost always use “said” unless how they say it is of Utmost Importance and I discovered I genuinely do like it way times better doing it that way

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

lesson learned: growing up Mormon in a quiet 95% Mormon suburb turns you gay

[stelle @notcinyy]

"you can acknowledge its bad while enjoying it". nah. quit that weak ass "oooo i need to bring down this thing i like so people dont make fun of me for liking it" mindset

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

I'm not sure this lands.

Take chess to see what it looks like at the limit. There is no skill in being an Engine Operator. Humans don't add to the engine by knowing how to turn it on just right. You run Stockfish and humans cannot even contribute.

Skill development changes you in concrete ways. A skilled chess player sees the board fundamentally differently, and better, than an unskilled one, memorizing positions in the blink of an eye, noticing patterns, spotting tactics. Yes, humans are obsoleted by machines there. But that does not make you equal to Magnus Carlsen.

So – school. Maybe we just want it all to be trade school, where the goal is to maximize earnings, and so humans should abandon every intellectual task obsoleted by AI. Maybe. And on that trajectory, perhaps we can abandon every intellectual task, full stop, because the train shows no signs of slowing down, and we're all about to be left behind.

Do we want to be slaves to minds greater than our own, masquerading as their masters because we know how to turn them on? Do we want to stop creating Terence Taos because Codex out-calculates us? Do we want every classroom to maximize the skill of flipping switches, accepting our own obsolescence by becoming eternal adolescents?

I do not. Skill-building matters as a good in itself. Training your mind matters. Becoming better and more knowledgeable, in concrete ways and in narrow topics, climbing skill pyramids ourselves rather than abandoning every intellectual skill, matters.

And any skill that is worth training, any subject that is worth learning, is worth training and learning right: in a way that actually improves the individual.

AI is not going away. But I'm not ready for human skill building to go away either. There are more chess classes worth preserving than "how to download Stockfish."