blakestacey

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I first read this comment before having coffee and thought that "R. Scientism" was a joke about Asimov's robot novels.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

Happy birthday!

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

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

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People out there acting like "research" using LLMs is ethical

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

I got as far as "Dimes Square bohemians" in the fourth sentence before realizing that everything in that article I recognized, I would regret.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

WP:YEAHOK, WP:IWILLALLOWIT

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

the dead mall of ideas

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