Zompist Bboard Again

ya they're not masons 8-) my hollow earther happened to be a spiritual nazi that was like "hitler wasn't trying to do the evil shit he did, he just had to cause he was under attack. what he really wanted was to find the inner world... what? no, nothing spiritual, the world inside the world, hen...

I mean, fair enough, surveys have their problems, especially when we're talking about very small fractions of people. if I was designing the study, I'd make it a multi-question battery, with hidden choice questions involving "what is the shape of the earth" and "had you heard about th...

yeah, that's where we use such... what are those things called? nursery rhymes? conventional expressions? spells? don't mean to, ofc, imply your heartache is childish or anything. I hadn't heard that version, tho, where is it from? It wasn't my heartache! But it's from my wife, who's from Andalucía...

yeah, that's where we use such... what are those things called? nursery rhymes? conventional expressions? spells? don't mean to, ofc, imply your heartache is childish or anything. I hadn't heard that version, tho, where is it from?

Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:10 am I’m done with dating and romance. It only ever leads to failure, and thence heartache, for me.

sana sana, corazoncito de rana. si no sana hoy sanará mañana.

about 30% of people believe in creationism, according to surveys. this number is different depending on the country: it's 2/3 in afghanistan, 22% in argentina, canada and uruguay, 40% in yankeeland, around 35% in colombia and venezuela, 40% in bolivia, etcetera. it may not be in the news cycle*, but...

I wouldn't call that a cliche, though. a cliché is a common figure of speech, or a common language flourish, or a common trope, not a common fact about reality being featured in the narrative... for example, in the Jeremy Robinson novels Infinite and Infinite 2, the first person narrator-protagonist...

in the year 2037, it was discovered that the way to create general artificial intelligence was to stick GPT-9 to a small mammal. an otter was decided on, mostly because the group didn't have access to mice but lived near lake superior. one of the first acts performed by the resulting otter-cyborg-c...

I haven't hung out with cats much in years, but from what I can see there's a lot more *pics* of cats making funny faces than *videos* of cats making funny faces, which suggests to me that, likely, it's a matter of the face being sort of.... accidental? maybe the cat's sneezing or smelling something...

You don't need sentience or sapience to get work done. You can potentially automate your entire workforce with non-sentient AIs. Plus, non-sentient AIs won't ask for a salary. hopefully! But did you apodictically deduce that you didn't apodictically deduce anything else? I just took a tally of all ...

TDOE is an excellent book, I not only thoroughly enjoyed it, but it sort of... I don't know, gave me solarpunk hope? They don't argue that native north americans were better, they pointed out that some native north americans were better (regarding this dimension of freedom and democracy). others, of...

recommend you google how to turn off blabla alongside your particular version of android or, even better, phone model. the silly people at google, as well as most OEMs, insist on going "you know what? this option actually goes over here"

ah, good. i have that turned off since 2021. I recommend it, I mean, it's a scam but also, it doesn't work as well, at least for me.

are they that bad?

Travis is right. modern concrete is pretty much shit, but it *could* be made to last forever: as I understand it, it's just a matter of it not being that profitable to do so. This is not necessarily an irrationality of capitalism, I'm also pretty chill with it lasting the a couple of lifetimes... le...

three quarters of an army being casualties basically means that the army doesn't exist. my immediate intuition was to read it as three tenths of the army. armies going in tenths goes back to rome, but I mean, it could just be something else. there is evidence in the text that at least some middle-ea...

FlamyobatRudki wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 4:58 am i'm equally opposed to FGM and MGM;

FGM is worse; it doesn't have any movies that are even close in quality to Casablanca or Rocky I.

can't speak for you, but the way I know you have feelings is cause i'm very similar to you (made out of meat, same amount of appendages plus minus one or two, same organs, etcetera) and since I know I have emotions that affect mybehavior in this and that way, I guess that you do too. I don't know th...

Multiple pages into to omnidirectional epistemological slap fight, and my original conclusion remains undisloged: If you think the logical functions performed by a computer cannot be a form of consciousness, you do not know what consciousness is made out of. but that's the point, we indeed *don't* ...

a list 1 yes, it is much harder and 2 yes, we don't know how to do it, but the analogy still stands: it seems very likely that instead of modeling every axon of every neuron, you instead abstract the system into, I don't know, parts, and model what those do: the emulator has like, I dunno, a regist...