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This is always where it was going to go.
They want control over how human bodies are allowed to be portrayed, not just nudity but in all aspects.
Bluster about "protecting children" from pornography is just the wedge they use to open the door.
They want control over how human bodies are allowed to be portrayed, not just nudity but in all aspects.
Bluster about "protecting children" from pornography is just the wedge they use to open the door.
The Federalist is coming for your artistic nudes. By which I mean the ones in museums.
"A number of Christian men I’ve known have expressed discomfort at viewing nudity in high art... these are honest men who care about honoring God and womanhood.
"A number of Christian men I’ve known have expressed discomfort at viewing nudity in high art... these are honest men who care about honoring God and womanhood.
April 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This is always where it was going to go.
They want control over how human bodies are allowed to be portrayed, not just nudity but in all aspects.
Bluster about "protecting children" from pornography is just the wedge they use to open the door.
They want control over how human bodies are allowed to be portrayed, not just nudity but in all aspects.
Bluster about "protecting children" from pornography is just the wedge they use to open the door.
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you can't compromise or reason with these people.
Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:
April 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
you can't compromise or reason with these people.
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It's kind of incredible that an article explaining how these things don't think, don't know how to reason & answer prompts by pure dumb brute-force, still ends up with "but we still have to use it cause surely it'll be good for something someday !"
It’s kinda funny / harrowing that LLMs didn’t get smarter or less brute-force-y, we just got better graphics cards, and more comfortable with wasting obscene energy on what still remains the most overrated madlibs ever.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All
The vast ‘brains’ of artificial intelligence models can memorize endless lists of rules. That’s useful, but not how humans solve problems.
www.wsj.com
April 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
It's kind of incredible that an article explaining how these things don't think, don't know how to reason & answer prompts by pure dumb brute-force, still ends up with "but we still have to use it cause surely it'll be good for something someday !"
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"become the hollow shell of a human being cause nothing matters and nothing is worth it" sounds like rock bottom Don Draper
Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
April 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"become the hollow shell of a human being cause nothing matters and nothing is worth it" sounds like rock bottom Don Draper
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People are always like ‘no one had anxiety before modernity’ and Wikipedia pages of pre-20th century figures are always like “he was startled by the sight of an unseemly looking duck [4], whereupon he died of horror [5],[6]”
February 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
People are always like ‘no one had anxiety before modernity’ and Wikipedia pages of pre-20th century figures are always like “he was startled by the sight of an unseemly looking duck [4], whereupon he died of horror [5],[6]”
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Occasional reminder that the oldest fossil traces of hominids (preserved footsteps dating back 3.2 million years or so) were discovered because a palaeontologist and a wildlife ecologist were messing around pelting each other with elephant droppings.
February 16, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Occasional reminder that the oldest fossil traces of hominids (preserved footsteps dating back 3.2 million years or so) were discovered because a palaeontologist and a wildlife ecologist were messing around pelting each other with elephant droppings.
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Slit throats are red,
Mindflayers are blue,
We'd risk it all,
For a Hamster called Boo
Mindflayers are blue,
We'd risk it all,
For a Hamster called Boo
February 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Slit throats are red,
Mindflayers are blue,
We'd risk it all,
For a Hamster called Boo
Mindflayers are blue,
We'd risk it all,
For a Hamster called Boo
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normal games: "this is a keycard. it opens doors."
Metal Gear: "This is a P.A.N. card (Personal Area Network). The P.A.N. system passes small electrical currents through the user's salt content to emit a small field, allowing access through level 1 doors."
snake: "doors?"
Metal Gear: "This is a P.A.N. card (Personal Area Network). The P.A.N. system passes small electrical currents through the user's salt content to emit a small field, allowing access through level 1 doors."
snake: "doors?"
February 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
normal games: "this is a keycard. it opens doors."
Metal Gear: "This is a P.A.N. card (Personal Area Network). The P.A.N. system passes small electrical currents through the user's salt content to emit a small field, allowing access through level 1 doors."
snake: "doors?"
Metal Gear: "This is a P.A.N. card (Personal Area Network). The P.A.N. system passes small electrical currents through the user's salt content to emit a small field, allowing access through level 1 doors."
snake: "doors?"
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ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
January 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
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do you like our shoelaces?
January 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
do you like our shoelaces?