for now

took a moment to imagine what happens if this breaks containment

might have to blind myself for a few days

at some point we’re going to get some dipshit going “Google made DeepDream which implies a computer can dream which means it must be able to think. Checkmate, atheists” as their line, aren’t we?

speaking in general: the tpot crowd are rabid about posting about their own shit, and will get alllll frazzled up the moment anything like this happens. and they have just-enough overlap with quite a few circles that if you happen to be connected to x/y/z it will readily cross your radar

but one can also keep an eye on them directly to see what they're up to. and there is value in that too, despite the mental downpayment it requires

Remember Oswald Mosley

(specifically the bit where he and his kept getting facepunched, along with their little gatherings disrupted and made extremely unpopular for establishments to host)

Ah, I do believe I now see a bit of an extra in the reason for the makeup of the story in that one writer/writing episode of DS9

"I'll take 'cases where the wallpaper would have been a clue' for $200, Alex"..

no matter how absurd you may think these people are, they always surprise you by finding ways to be even worse

I expect we'll soon hear the laments of how prison impacts ev, maybe combined with some utterly twisted argument for prison abolition (along with their own deeply fucked replacement suggestion)

“As measured in terms of its energy production and consumption”

That’s so extremely fucking insane, jesus. We are already dealing with those issues at the “low” end and they want to fucking accelerate it? Christ these people are the fucking worst

Look it’s really simple

First you take some food in. Then you apply the Krebs cycle. Then you suddenly learn a lot more about organic chemistry. Then things start getting into the funky. What’s hard? :sarcmark:

But you already lost Yud right after step 1, so you’ll have an edge up either way

ah yes

because the amorphous blob of inner state of a LLM analysing some code according to checks notes the rules set down by someone who is most definitely[0] going to be a world-leading expert in PLT will... checks notes again Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger it up with indeterminate blocks of viral DNA, which we.. (checks notes, pages through a few times ah yes, it says here "which we also quite definitely understand to be 'just' a bunch of matrix bonds" should be said with a punchline lint?) Which We Also Quite Definitely Understand To Be "Just A Bunch Of Matrix Bonds" slaps knee

did this motherfucker seriously see style transfer and the word "code" in "DNA code" and think these could just go at it rubberless and we'd have a problem?

progressing the frontiers of magical thinking!

[0] - whoops, forgot my footnote. but uh: yeaaaaah that's also Dubious

irl lolling so fucking hard at this

Thanks :D