neil

see clearly, speak plainly, embrace vaporization

[neil @neilwa]

Ironically, classic ideas of cyborgs - Ghost in the shell style with biological brains controlling artificial bodies got it entirely the wrong way around. We are not the ghost but the shell. Artificial brains already do and will continue to expand control on biological bodies

[neil @neilwa]

greatest summer of sports of all time

[neil @neilwa]

diffusing

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@Araratianfoid god forbid a film pass the bechdel test

[neil @neilwa]

@DisgracedProp this entire tweet is just putting the cart before the horse. the industrial revolution enabled britain to dominate the globe, fixation on manners/services came as a wasteful byproduct and is exactly what drives the UK’s decline. supply drives demand, what?

[neil @neilwa]

@jaiselsingh how is it able to cancel out egocentric movement from the detection?

[neil @neilwa]

@jess_ann_pin @IterIntellectus @grok jess says the study is justified in saying “Testosterone eliminated the audience effect in prosocial reward-maximizing choices.” wouldn’t the effects she denies necessarily follow from eliminating audience effects, e.g. decreased submission to audience expectations?

[neil @neilwa]

@medjedowo @punished_daniel culture is downstream of individual behaviour

[neil @neilwa]

@allTheYud @fchollet since go exists in real life, real life is lower bounded to be at least as complicated as go

[neil @neilwa]

@benspringwater @klaehnr why? we’re talking terminal right. you don’t see bci being good enough in a millennia?

[neil @neilwa]

@zobotics @_asadmemon why are real helicopters piloted in wartime and not scaled up quadcopters?

[neil @neilwa]

@L1763559L @arcticinstincts but he doesn’t have short arms?

[neil @neilwa]

@DriesieDrie @L1763559L @arcticinstincts except he doesn’t have those genetic limitations? he has an above average ape index for his division

[neil @neilwa]

@L1763559L @arcticinstincts this is opposite to what the op says

[neil @neilwa]

@SergiSanz05 @NickClairmont1 imo “cooked” feels much more like a rediscovery/re-popularization because its meaning is so intuitive. unlike other invented terms like “mogging”. analogy would be more like an ancient forgotten tool, in which case you would say the origin of the tool was in fact ancient

[neil @neilwa]

@iamtrask @Vijay2050977 i don’t understand this take. you’re conflating valuable specialised context (hedge fund would provide this themselves, they already pay millions for specialised apis) and the actual unit of computation (from ai companies). the computation behaves exactly like a utility

[neil @neilwa]

@AustinTLynch @kaimicahmills a good analogy would be to patients under general anesthesia. nociceptors fire and a brain is present. but patients have no conscious experience of pain. would that not be enough? a brainless body still has damage response

[neil @neilwa]

@AustinTLynch @kaimicahmills in this thought experiment, the pigs would be comatose from birth. imo this would be equivalent to having no brain

[neil @neilwa]

@JammerPalmer @kaimicahmills trying to understand on what dimensions you think this is good. if we had a drug that would render brained pigs into a state of bliss, would that be better than removing the brain?