you could maybe keep yourself alive either biologically or as some kind of sentient data bank thingy if you had a way to stretch out a finite amount of energy for an unlimited amount of time
you'd just spend more and more and more and more and more time asleep rather than awake
counterpoint: SOMEBODY has to be the first
but the odds that we're on the front bleeding edge of the window for intelligent life (intermediate of the kjhptillion-degree era and the even-canadians-call-it-cold era) are ... well, i'd say not 100%, i'm not an expert, nyan
(there is also the even-russians-call-it-cold era, but that's more like absolute cold, while the canadian one is merely too cold (i.e. dead, every physical process has (in the canadian case, almost) run to its final exhaustion) for conventional biological survival)
1. we had, or thought we had, a compact that settled after the civil rights era that we were gonna be something like postracial
2. awokening involved an attempt to revise terms
3. this failed, but the old deal may no longer be viable or implementable, tbd
quite awkward
the same way many people in the 19th century felt about sex is the same way many today feel about being male or female at all, for example
or about reproduction
many morally or ideologically fraught implications, frightening to ponder, best to avoid
https://t.co/qdf8cmH3GH
who could ever have a reason to lie about things like this?
(certainly, if the hotel-word is all that it's cracked up to be, the sierra sierras et al. wouldn't have wanted to broadcast it - "don't worry, they're all in madagascar now")
Just a reminder that this photo is jews in the Novaky concentration camp in Slovakia sometime between mid-1942 and August 1944 when they were 'liberated'.
Unsurprisingly the 'Holocaust' crowd want you to believe that this was 'unusual', but we know that Auschwitz had a pool too
speaking of, @slatestarcodex covered the show trial of the other adolf via a book review
draw your own conclusions? they look pretty grim, though, but of course israel would want you to think that, their whole thing is that the ingroup needs an ingroup nation state for reasons
One remarkable thing about genetic code, compared to software, is its robustness. Whole sections missing? Extra chromosome? Two embryos sharing part of their body? It still creates a basically functional organism.
i really like tech, though
my mecha suit would be impossible without it
but sometimes the tech owns us rather than us owning the tech
(or the owner of the tech owns us - commercial / government tech is not designed with respecting freedom as the top priority, more like 554แตสฐ)
Yes and this is why we need cancel culture for AI Slop.
People don't only care abt money, they also care abt status: We need to shame these people such that the social cost overwhelms the monetary benefits.
Lower their status ๐ ๐ ๐
social justice has come full circle. we are now in the era of (convenience store type) indians demanding whites give the rounds of the cat's arse for the privilege of sleeping in their basements
this mid-career brown woman spent her entire life in the embracing cocoon of affirmative action, and nothing about her technical writings indicates that she's actually any better than any number of unemployed white and asian male anons
@ArtemisConsort Our capacity to execute true recursion is presumably limited by the computational capacity of our minds, we can only hold so many layers of recursion in mind simultaneously. Does this mean that it is possible to 'introspect' our way to the bottom?