Zompist Bboard Again

Ketsuban wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 9:12 am 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.

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 12:27 pm 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.]

“with a straight face, Youtuber Sabine Hossenfelder said” wrote: I’m not autistic; I’m just rude!
Or maybe German.
(But I repeat myself.)

TomHChappell wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 12:11 pm

“with a straight face, Youtuber Sabine Hossenfelder said” wrote: I’m not autistic; I’m just rude!
Or maybe German.
(But I repeat myself.)

Raphael wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 3:57 pm

alice wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 2:41 pmSergeant 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?

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 12:19 pm

TomHChappell wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 12:11 pm

“with a straight face, Youtuber Sabine Hossenfelder said” wrote: 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.

alice wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2024 2:15 pm
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.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2024 6:54 am 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.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2024 7:03 am Don't tempt me! I'm this close to swearing off civilization to go raise goats in the mountains.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 10:26 pm 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.

Torco wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 12:32 pm public figure who constantly reminds public to not trust media falsely reported dead by media lmao

alice wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 2:37 pm

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 7:45 am 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.

zompist wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 12:10 am
(P.S. Your French teacher would have you say "Les singes, parlent-ils ?" but she's from 1845.)

zompist wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 3:22 pm Of course, annoyingly, the French insist on continuing to change the language, thus Ares Land's correction on causer.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 1:54 pm
Everybody wants to get rid of Mélenchon, especially his friends.

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 2:03 pm

Ares Land wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 1:54 pm Everybody wants to get rid of Mélenchon, especially his friends.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2024 3:17 pm This is a special sort of insanity distinct from the usual Nort kind.

zompist wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 10:59 pm

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.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:30 pm

zompist wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 4:45 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 3:34 pm 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.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 6:26 am To mix metaphors boldly, in politics it's perfectly possible to fall down the cliff, hit rock bottom, and then start digging.