Tim Nisly

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[Cher @cher]

Whats going on with mycareer

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@vocalcry @Y2K_mindset Similar feels to a 7th grader taking a sip of energy drink and starting to act *crazy*

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This water starting to taste like I’ve reached a physical limit

[Daniel Tenreiro @TenreiroDaniel]

@Pontifex Holy Father the post will perform better if you append the url in a threaded reply as opposed to linking it in the tweet

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

[Mo @fruitpibble]

movies are starting to look like the movies that people watch in movies

[Brandy Jensen @BrandyLJensen]

one of the funniest things he’s ever done

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@broderick One of those cases where the trend chasers way overshoot the real trend

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@broderick Lots of correct replies, but also – I think it’s not unlike other instincts to cling to relevance. Overcommitting to the newest thing to signal you’re still in touch. Like the teacher saying 67 or something, but for tech

[Matthew Cole @mattbencole]

I barely survived “telling writers they have to read is gatekeeping,” I don’t think I can live through “telling writers they have to write is gatekeeping”

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@ejmaroun Damn

[Heath Taws @HeathTaws]

The guy fresh from seminary during his first sermon: “so, there are four Greek words for Love.”

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@RapidResponse47 Goodwill mentioned

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There is an epidemic of people driving with parts hanging from their car

[Rogue Insider Podcast @InsiderRogue]

@cyberpyre Coin the term 'meme', become hypnotized by memetic mirror. Tragic but elegant.

[Mo @atmoio]

dawkins is an idiot in a very specific way, but he’s not idiotic enough to actually think claude is conscious.

what materialists/new atheists like him mean when they say AI may be conscious is not so much that AI is conscious as much as it is an attempt to downplay human consciousness.

they’re essentially making a point. “hey, how ridiculous i sound right now, is how ridiculous you sound thinking human consciousness is universally central.” or, “hey, see that dumb llm that you and i clearly agree isn’t conscious? yup, you’re made of the exact same stuff. see how stupid you sound now?”

there’s also unfortunately no way to rebut them without disclaiming you are using poetry. you cannot use “science” to plead the case because science is a materialist tool. it is a highly sequestered arena in which we define a rigid speech protocol. its whole trick is the calculus of dividing the whole and annotating its parts. this clever hack works for some things, some small pockets of reducibility, but at large is quite futile.

neuroscientist philosopher iain mcgilchrist argues the materialist trap is basically a failure to see wholes, dominated by the brain left-hemisphere’s proclivity to divide and conquer. the left hemisphere cannot make sense of experience, music, and time. these are the domain of the right hemisphere which experiences “flow” rather than discrete moments. he describes patients with right hemisphere damage who just couldn’t make sense of time in their life. they saw the frames but couldn’t see the movie.

you can dissect the image to find the story but all you’ll get are pixels. you can dissect a violin to find the music but all you’ll get is wood pulp.

consciousness is a whole. it’s a flow. and science doesn’t really know what to do with that.

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@narrenhut Very good

[alex @vaudevillehook]

Bob Dylan wrote an entire song commanding listeners to “like” a particular music publication, and in exchange, said publication ranked the song as the #1 best song of all time, and no one wants to call this what it is: plain bribery.

[fishy and chips @FATFUCKINGCHUD1]

Your honor please man

[Buckaroo @Buckaroo_4_U]

@ZooL_Smith If they decide to do this for every possible question then they will achieve AGI.