While I’m sure that some people were cool on The Godfather when it came out, it was the highest-grossing film of 1972 and won Best Picture at the 1973 Oscars. That’s not exactly a good example of a movie being vindicated in retrospect.
Hindenburg, hitler, great depression, ronald reagan, stalin, modi, putin, decades of north korea life, …
🎶 we didn’t start the fire 🎶
J, K. Rowling, skull enthusiast:
Khelif, who went on to win Olympic gold despite the harassment, reportedly filed a lawsuit alleging cyberbullying against Rowling (Elon Musk is also named in the suit). Shortly after the lawsuit became public on August 13, Rowling went silent on X, leading to speculation from many onlookers that she had pushed her transphobic narrative too far. On August 23, though, she again appeared on the platform, spreading more false and misleading commentary on Khelif. Her first post was a quote from a transphobic hit piece against Khelif by Colin Wright, the former managing editor of the far-right website Quillette.
I first read this comment before having coffee and thought that “R. Scientism” was a joke about Asimov’s robot novels.
Happy birthday!
and that’s twice in as many days that I have been doing a Lady Macbeth “out, out damn spot” routine with my entire central nervous system
A new plan to save America!
17 followers.
To paraphrase Jenny Nicholson: Nobody’s watching your revolution except sneerclub, and we’re only watching it as performance art.
People out there acting like “research” using LLMs is ethical
I got as far as “Dimes Square bohemians” in the fourth sentence before realizing that everything in that article I recognized, I would regret.
WP:YEAHOK, WP:IWILLALLOWIT
So if it turns out, as people like Penrose assert, that the brain has a certain quantum je-ne-sais-quoi, then all bets for representing the totality of even the simplest neural state with conventional computing hardware are off.
No, that’s not what Penrose asserts. His whole thing has been to say that quantum mechanics needs to be changed, that quantum mechanics is wrong in a way that matters for understanding brains.
the dead mall of ideas
Oh look, an AI tool to make Wikipedia worse.
(Apparently, the Wikimedia Foundation couldn’t even be bothered to care about the standards that en.wp contributors deem necessary for sources on medical topics. Because it’s more important to “sustain and grow Wikimedia projects in a changing online knowledge landscape”. Dammit, where’s the button that sends electrical shocks through the Internet to anyone who talks like that?)
Idea: a Pivot to AI video series hosted by an avatar that’s, like, a talking polyhedron in the style of Mind’s Eye/Body Wars era CGI.
This would require effort and thus is a terrible idea, but I find the mental image amusing.
ux/acc is the noise you make after eating something that you really shouldn’t have eaten
“Ideological Turing test”?
Not gonna look up what that is, but I’m sure it’s debatebro “civility” fetishism.
Wow, it’s nice that that doesn’t feel at all relevant in this, the year 2024