The New ZBB Quote Thread

[WeepingElf]

And Fenwick, writing in 2016 and well aware of Gamkrelidze and Ivanov, points out that the existing well-documented process of s-mobile is a more parsimonious explanation than a magic fricative which turns into a pumpkin as soon as someone tries to write it.

[Raphael]

The priest who baptized my late husband in 1946 refused to accept the name "Cameron" unless it was hyphenated to "Cameron-Joseph" because there is no saint or martyr named "Cameron" recognised by the Catholic Church. Sixty years later, at my nephew's baptism, the priest called on the blessings of "Saint Owen?" with an interrogative intonation which indicated he didn't actually know if he was invoking someone on the official roster or not. [For the record, he was.]

[TomHChappell]

I’m not autistic; I’m just rude!
Or maybe German.
(But I repeat myself.)

[bradrn]

I’m not autistic; I’m just rude!
Or maybe German.
(But I repeat myself.)

I believe this thread is reserved for quotes made by people on this board.

[Man in Space]

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was (traditionally) released 57 years ago today. This date will soon become like D-Day: nobody alive will be able to remember it.

Does that mean it was now 77 years ago today that Sergeant Pepper told the band to play?

[Linguoboy]

I’m not autistic; I’m just rude!
Or maybe German.
(But I repeat myself.)

I believe this thread is reserved for quotes made by people on this board.

That was probably the original intent but there's no need to be dogmatic about it.

[Man in Space]

Yeah, I’ve quoted zompist’s books a few times.

[Raphael]

Ideally, of course, someone will eventually sort everything out, and we'l have definitive sets of phonemes and features. Although by that time advances in "AI" and brain-technology interfaces will mean that we'll be able to model arbitrarily complex sound-changes by the power of thought alone.

[bradrn]

It is not physically possible for an individual to do without every unethical privilege afforded to them by the system. If someone tried to minimize them as much as possible, their lives would not look recognizably middle class. To be perfectly honest, they would look like fucking weirdos, possibly brainwashed cultists or worse, Linux users.

Don't tempt me! I'm this close to swearing off civilization to go raise goats in the mountains.

[Raphael]

I once read a trading book called Best Loser Wins. It mentions a pattern that a vast majority of new traders fall into. IIRC it was something like they: 1. Win slightly. 2. Start losing. 3. Study trading. 4. Lose horribly. 5. Quit forever.

[Man in Space]

public figure who constantly reminds public to not trust media falsely reported dead by media lmao

[Raphael]

At least this thread is about AI again now.

Yes, someone who runs the simulated universe seems finally to have noticed and adjusted the weights accordingly.

[Raphael]

(P.S. Your French teacher would have you say "Les singes, parlent-ils ?" but she's from 1845.)

[bradrn]

Of course, annoyingly, the French insist on continuing to change the language, thus Ares Land's correction on causer.

[Raphael]

Everybody wants to get rid of Mélenchon, especially his friends.

[bradrn]

Everybody wants to get rid of Mélenchon, especially his friends.

Ooh, you got to it before I did…

(Ares Land always seems to come up with quotable quotes.)

[bradrn]

This is a special sort of insanity distinct from the usual Nort kind.

[Raphael]

Again, sex is not that hard to figure out. It's hard to explain without writing soft-core porn, so just take my word for it.

[Raphael]

I wonder when we achieve AGI how the newly sentient AI('s) will approach the subject of human sex.

Stanisław Lem robot: "That's disgusting"
Hajime Sorayama robot: "Let's join in!"
Star Trek/Wars robot: "Humans are peculiar"

I can imagine studies on robosexuality in the coming decades.

[bradrn]

To mix metaphors boldly, in politics it's perfectly possible to fall down the cliff, hit rock bottom, and then start digging.