@saintsoftness Absolutely and in the Metaphysics too. My Greek has never been great, but I struggled through the M. in Greek and the composition of ousia makes a lot more sense in that language than in even very good English translations.
@saintsoftness Yeah, I find it especially handy with Aristotle because so much of the technical terminology in English is carried over from Latin glosses and can be more obscure than the Greek.
@TheStalwart Learning to formalise animal perceptual models is more promising long-term and probably less expensive, but also there's no pathway to become a trillionaire and/or profoundly change the productive infrastructure of capitalism with them
@TheStalwart Expert systems using machine learning have tremendous potential for medicine, but LLMs aren't the right model types and they're too costly.
@saintsoftness Should be OK so long as the over-grooming has stopped. If you have a soft blanket or cloth, spread some catnip on it and cats'll often shift the grooming behaviour to it while cuddling it against the wound.
@TheStalwart Most of that stuff wasn't owned by any specific social institution which could be targeted for incorporation, elimination, or transformation.
@JesseBrown Weren't you originally implying the shooters were Muslim? Now that they're not, the claim is that some Iraqi guy who can't even get the details right is the mastermind? I think rushing to conclusions here is a bad idea.
@MichaelChongMP The museum regularly has long-running exhibits about other countries (Uganda and Myanmar in the recent past and should continue to do so. The Libs are trampling on Canadians' rights and this is what you're prioritising?
Always a bit funny to me how the considerations of the utility monster problem are essentially a secularised reframing of "Should you sin by substituting your preferences for God's?" (He is, after all, the ultimate utility monster)
Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025.
In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft.
https://t.co/0xpILXnURG
@Silent_Mandible@plateauscave Cheers! If they end up being of interest, I suggest following up with Debord's Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, which is sort of a late-80s reflection on how things went since the original SotS was publshed.
@Silent_Mandible@plateauscave Report on the Construction of Situations (Debord), and Khayati's On the Poverty of Student Life as well, and then the journal Internationale Situationniste (it's on Libcom).
@JesseBrown The existence of this industry comes up from time to time in news articles and Reddit posts, but mainly in the form of the police mentioning it briefly in articles about specific crimes.
@JesseBrown I think the real story here is that Toronto has a teenage-murderer-for-hire industry , which despite the Canada Day weekend shootings in 2024 no one has really delved into in depth.