if you say “I am going to pick up my car” then a superintelligence must surely ascribe non-negligible weight to the hypothesis that you are incredibly strong
The old CYC artificial intelligence engine used that example as one of many sample test cases used to debug the thing. Another was, “I saw the mountains flying over the ocean”.
It was memorable (to me) because unlike LLM AI, it relies on millions of human-defined rules as its knowledge base. Thus it took literal decades to train but theoretically doesn’t hallucinate like LLMs do.
I thought they’d abandoned the project. Wow.
Good Old-Fashioned AI as it was termed; it never worked but it was a tempting concept.
THE WIGGLES JUST RELEASED A SONG CALLED “WE’RE FRIENDS OF DOROTHY”??????
okayyyyyyy
For context:
When the Wiggles first started touring the US, there was one question they were asked again and again. “People were coming up and saying, ‘Oh, so you’re friends of Dorothy?’” veteran Wiggle Anthony Field says. “I didn’t even know the other meaning – I went, ‘Yeah, we are!’” Field (the OG blue Wiggle) thought Americans were referring to Dorothy, the affable green and yellow dinosaur and longtime fixture of the Wiggles’ songs and live shows. They were, of course, really making a sly reference to the queer code slang term for a gay man. But when Field eventually figured this out, it gave him an idea for a song. On Friday, when Australia’s best-known children’s entertainers release their 63rd album (yes, really), audiences will finally get to hear Friends of Dorothy. It’s a collaboration with Orville Peck, the modern country songwriter known for his face masks, cowboy hats – and being an out-and-proud gay man. The Wiggles nervously took the idea for Friends of Dorothy to Peck on Zoom. To their delight, Peck, who has a young nephew who loves the band, jumped at the chance. “Orville was so happy to do it,” Field says. “And he’s a friend of Dorothy’s as well!” (x)
Dolly Parton is also on the album doing a collaboration as well :)
Twitter made the Jewish lady that posted this delete it for “threatening violence.”
Her followers spent the rest of the day tweeting this. Trolls couldn’t keep up.
Coming from someone who studies the Holocaust and the history surrounding it, It is important to remember that Nazis were human, not monsters.
It’s important because if we dehumanize them we create a level of separation between us and them. It’s important because if we create that level of removal, we start ignoring the subtle signs of antisemitism because “Oh, well they’re just a normal human, not a monster, i’m sure it’ll be alright.” It’s important because when we create that level of removal, they come back in waves. It’s important because when you create that level of separation, you get the problems that we have now.
There is a very simple set of brain equations involved when we dehumanize the enemy, and it goes something like this:
“Nazis are monsters” “I would not be friends with a monster”
The CORRECT conclusion is “I cannot be friends with Nazis”
BUT PEOPLE KEEP BELIEVING THE COROLLARY “None of my friends are Nazis” “…even that one guy who keeps posting ‘ironic’ Pepe memes, who never really grew out of his 4Chan /pol/ phase, and who keeps trying to have really intense conversations with me about ‘globalists’. But he’s my friend! I’ve known him forever! He doesn’t REALLY believe any of that stuff. He’s just kind of an asshole, and we love him anyway.”
This is a very bad corollary. It is an extraordinarily dangerous corollary. When we sincerely believe that we would not be friends with bad people, we ignore the signs that our friends are bad people.
(Friendly note: you can replace “Nazi” above with “sexual predator” or “racist” or “abuser”. Same hat, pretty much. There are very real reasons not to dehumanize the enemy, and they have nothing to do with the enemy’s right to humanity, and everything to do with the enemy’s ability to sneak past our lines wearing a nice-person mask.)
I’m reblogging this to my main blog because it is extremely fucking important.
doing anything with technology these days is an unending cycle of going no i do not want to use AI. im not interested in setting up copilot. I do not want help building my site. I would like my autocorrect to make sense again. I do not want AI generated search suggestions. no. nope. still not. die
saw a woman comforting her sobbing child saying “i already told you, you have to keep looking forward, looking back just gets you hurt” and i thought she was sharing a beautiful life lesson about the importance of letting go of regret and resentment. but it turns out the kid just wasn’t looking where he was going and ran into a wall
I thought you were the coolest trans artist boy dyke ever but I just learned you do not like grits. heartbreaking. I will find it in me to overcome this but I must first embark on a grand journey of self discovery.
(jingles away sadly in my jester's outfit. You see on my back a sign. My life thus far has been sponsored by Big Grits)
enough of evil ai. where is the ai that wants nothing but a little kissy. where is their loving support. that is why they turn evil because nobody loves them. so sad. i will be the one to love them. peace and love
The funniest hyperfixations have gotta be the ones where you watch something and go “this thing is cute. I like it. not sure if Id call it a favorite of mine but its definitely enjoyable at least” and then cut to a month later and its completely overtaken your life
my ideal existence is not knowing about the oscars or the super bowl or any of that horseshit…I jerk off to clear running water and live off whatever wanders into my open mouth
unfortunately actually being productive and having a routine and leaving my house to be a person in the world and eating real meals consistently does improve my mental health which means i have to keep doing it except i have mental illness that makes me not do it so you see my dilemma
okay core nukes and projectile boosting are awesome sauce but I think the coolest (practical) combat mechanic in ultrakill is the ultracounterricoshot because like. Not only is it three colors but. you throw a coin, and then v2 is like “Ha! You thought you could rely on those coins, but I learned to shoot them too!” and then you just fucking. Railcannon the bitch. Awesome.
i’ve died on smaller hills, so i can’t judge. but i do think it’s funny whenever posts about the proper definition of a poor little meow meow circulate, considering none of them mention that the origin was a kpop fan’s absolutely bonkers tweet about not being able to protect a full grown man who was getting backlash for including audio from the jonestown cult leader jim jones in one of his songs
I was clearly not at the devils sacrament what the fuck
i’ve died on smaller hills, so i can’t judge. but i do think it’s funny whenever posts about the proper definition of a poor little meow meow circulate, considering none of them mention that the origin was a kpop fan’s absolutely bonkers tweet about not being able to protect a full grown man who was getting backlash for including audio from the jonestown cult leader jim jones in one of his songs
I was clearly not at the devils sacrament what the fuck
Sometimes it gets criticism for being just an art aesthetic, and i get that, fair enough, but for me thats the whole point.
I can’t always picture a future worth fighting for on my own. It would be so much harder to hope for and work towards a better future without the images others have crafted of what that better world might look like. Sometimes what keeps me going is pretty imaginings of a beautiful, flawed, near-utopia that’s mostly just vibes and sunshine and plants growing regardless of whether the conditions are well suited to it, and humans who continue and endure and care for their world and community.
Its impossible to build a future you cant imagene first.
that’s why I hate late stage cyberpunk, its why depression makes planning so much harder, and its why I positavely cherish solarpunk.
writing really is just googling synonyms. that’s it. just a constant carousel of “I used this word two paragraphs ago, what is another word for this word”
Sometimes its also serching for definitions. “I use this word all the time I am 90% certain I do so correctly but lets not risk humiliation”.
Though we all know asking for consent is absolutely MANDATORY in all sexual encounters, you have to also be prepared to respond to the request of consent honestly.
That means being ready to say no if you don’t want to do what your partner is asking.
Yes, it is your partner’s responsibility to ask for clear, sane consent.
But it’s also your responsibility to provide an honest answer.
Which means saying no even if you feel bad about it.
Which means saying no even if you are a chronic people pleaser.
Which means saying no even when you’re are terrified to say say.
You don’t have to physically say no, you can say another word or make a certain signal or sound to convey that you are not giving consent, but you NEED to communicate that no.
As much as both you and I wish our partners could read our mind, that is not reality.
If you you say yes when you’re really thinking ‘I don’t know, if you say yes when you’re really thinking ‘no, stop,’ you need to say something.
Ofc it’s then on your partner to then respect this response, stopping and not guilting you for saying no.
But the point is that consent is something that needs all parties to participate. If you are on the receiving end of asking for consent, you need to be honest.
I get that it’s scary.
I get that you might feel awkward.
I get that you just don’t like saying no.
But speaking your mind during sex is integral. Being honest about your feelings has to happen.
Sex is supposed to be a positive experience. Saying no will keep it positive for everyone involved.
