"One Lip to Earth and One Lip to Heaven" is out today in the pages of Cream Scene Carnival, with some beautiful art by Maressa Axtman
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@aphrodite_woods i only have one friend who does this, and it's mostly because his only way to message me is with the playstation facebook app or something
would be an interesting result, existentially, if the whole AGI research thing hits a wall of humans being basically as smart as it gets apart from like marginal improvements
@no_earthquake i sorta suspect this is more or less true at least as far as LLMs go. i really think they're going to converge at "pretty competent, sometimes kinda clever, like talking to an erudite and only slightly senile human"
Dog trainer Lisa Parsons ran from Larry Uteck to Pampered Paws Inn to rescue 18 dogs amid a wildfire evacuation order after being told, "If they're humans, we have buses. If they're dogs, it is what it is." #NSFire#TantallonFire
Ian Hacking, who died yesterday aged 87, wrote 28 pieces for the LRB between 1986 and 2013, on the philosophy of mind, deafness, Iris Murdoch, metaphysics and organ transplants, among other things.
You can read Hacking’s pieces in our online archive here:
https://t.co/q59rA8TNQ4