mandolingual

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by mandolingual 6d ago
Even if it's flawed, adding any friction at all to the effort of deception is a positive step.
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by mandolingual 6d ago
At that point you've earned the fruits of your deception, just like the tricksters who spent time doing physical photo editing.
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by mandolingual 10d ago
A small third party at the junction of two giants is infinitely more powerful than a small third party obliged to be the client of one.
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by mandolingual 14d ago
"The unit above is the citation, not the claim." The RPM of the slop ouroboros ever rises.
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by mandolingual 22d ago
Mid century American and Soviet space art had transparent political purpose, as does solarpunk. Futurism is rarely if ever just "it's the future, and that's neat!". It comes with the inherently political baggage of &quot
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by mandolingual 22d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_Futurism It's always been political
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by mandolingual 27d ago
It's just Consciousness of the Gaps. Quantum mechanics are mysterious and are a frontier of science, so surely consciousness must dwell there.
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by mandolingual 1mo ago
These are indeed seven of the kinds of books I would expect to see in this kind of post shared on HN.
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by mandolingual 1mo ago
All those who voted for him and all those who didn't vote against him are equally complicit
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by mandolingual 2mo ago
So it is decreed! 'Cyberpunk aesthetic' is hereafter an incoherent concept! Well done, sir. Objective truth is defended.
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by mandolingual 2mo ago
And an aesthetic. You can google it if you're unfamiliar!
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by mandolingual 2mo ago
It's aesthetically extremely cyberpunk.
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by mandolingual 3mo ago
Fuck Trump and the slavering dolts who support him.
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by mandolingual 6mo ago
Flaw become aesthetic all time. People faked butt bandage follow Sun King fashion. Ugly as sin, still aesthetic.
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by mandolingual 7mo ago
And computers used to fill a room and require stacks of punch cards to use.
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by mandolingual 10mo ago
Trying to carry out a good thing (neural assistive technology) can open the door for the expansion of oppression (literal thought policing, in ?? years) in the same way that trying to stop a bad thing (terrorism, CSAM) can. It's not an
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by mandolingual 10mo ago
Seattle's not really known for noise. The opposite, if anything. Rain (caveat it's not the rain it's the dark and it's mostly mizzle blah blah blah) and traffic though, sure.
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by mandolingual 10mo ago
Always interesting/uncanny when AI is tested with human cognitive tests https://www.psychdb.com/cognitive-testing/clock-drawing-test .
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by mandolingual 11mo ago
I think it's easier to square the circle about this by focusing on 'internal voice' - For those with an internal voice, where do the words come from? We don't pick them from a conscious word bank (mostly), they arise fro
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by mandolingual 11mo ago
'If you could see a photographic-quality image in your mind, you could answer questions about it the way you’d answer questions about a photograph in front of you' ...yes. I wouldn't describe it as photograph-quality, for me
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by mandolingual 11mo ago
The judicial system rolls up to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court is compromised. It's not a matter of weakness.
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by mandolingual 1y ago
"Consciousness" is an overloaded thought killer that swerves all conversation into obfuscated semantic arguments. One person will be talking about 'internality' and self-image (in the testable, mechanical sense that you
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by mandolingual 1y ago
Questionable value of AI datacenters aside, I'm on board with any push for ramping up more nuclear power.
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by mandolingual 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp... .
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by mandolingual 1y ago
You believe there are kinds of research that people should not be mad about being deleted. Reflect on that.
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by mandolingual 1y ago
Any survey (as opposed to horoscopes which aren't up to user choice) can be used to convey information about a person, even if that information is what they think about themselves. "I took a survey and I'm a Slytherin" c
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by mandolingual 2y ago
From what I recall the main narrative was "it's neck and neck but we could be a single polling misstep from a blowout in either direction" which is about as safe a stance as you can take (understandable considering the blowba
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by mandolingual 2y ago
I'm subscribed to his substack because he's curmudgeonly and it's funny, and he occasionally makes good points, but he's constantly beating the same anti-hype drum. He might not get any particular facts wrong but you can
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by mandolingual 2y ago
We've "lost something in society" because we don't want to be immersed in lore and pictures and dreams of what we could do while our friends sit patiently around the table waiting for us to look up if we can build a dair
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by mandolingual 2y ago
He shits out his perspective into every conversation and buys himself a bigger voice, let's not spread his drivel for him.

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