Natural systems are not beautiful ballets they are savage red raw, unfair and impossibly pitiful battlefields, made beautiful only by our privileged position of working our way largely out of them. At the very start of this video he has the look my dad used to have as he watched us getting ready to sing Happy Birthday to him.

The title alone shows admittance that leaving Meta signals virtue and good character.

I woke my partner to tell her the good news and she is currently weeping.

We shoot ads up your wazoo so we can afford to pay this group of people to put features in and this group to take them out. In this way we ensure everyone is unhappy.

You probably don’t want to know.

The even liberal arts thing made me spit my coffee.

I always saw it more as pragmatism relating to humanity and being possibly extended to machine intelligence by association. When you talk with another person you have no real way of knowing that they are separate conscious entities, intelligent and self aware in the way you perceive yourself to be. But if they talk and act in a way that is suggestive of that then the best and simplest working practice is to assume it. This same practicality should extend to include artificial intelligence as applicable.

I think taped would just make him more insane or imply he has a small head which is funny but the frame clearly is on top so I stick with my guess of age.

They need a catchy name for it, something like Security Squadron.

If you are saying things like ‘I’m not interested in punishing anyone for past decisions or mistakes’, I think I can see the problem.

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We will be saved because eventually we will find a way to enshit the enshittification process. In our ability to enshittify we trust.

Yes.

Extremism is born from the real sleeping danger of poor education and information standards which allow people to latch onto and be swayed by simplistic nonsense touted all too loudly on social media. When the rest of the world wore masks to protect the person next to them a loud section of the US population believed it was a plot to turn them Muslim. Similarly when the world understood the value of the developed vaccines a large part of the US thought it was a plot to implant tracking microchips - while carrying phones that were actually capable of tracking their activity. Every country has factions of this sort and the American population might have more reason than most to suspect government instructed mass vaccination programs but for a country with so much wealth the USA seems particularly prone to the sort of demagoguery that can take root in a poorly informed population. To put it more succinctly every day the film Idiocracy gets a little less funny.

It is commonly understood that his glasses are taped to his head but their frame is drawn over what is more likely therefore to be a clump of old white hair, making him bald from age and not from a fashion choice in youth. A final insult, found only if you go looking for it.

It took a slow runup like all things and it stuck because it worked. Science begat technology which improved living standards, not just in a rarified way but universally and was very evident. In turn technical advancement shone a light back onto science as its enabler. The new discoveries were not only intellectual like those in the arts they altered the practicalities and aspirations of common life within all classes of society. A thing science continues to do unlike any other pursuit of humanity and it is relevant and sticks for this reason.

I think the differentiating factor is bulk intelligence, the guy in the bath is a one or two per generation mind and PhD students are ten a penny. I was one, I know. I saw a mechanical engineering doctorate banging a screw into the wall with a hammer.

Right side You Get: Disinformation, Abuse, And a host that is demonstrably leaning into a dictatorship.

I think Sunday evening, about seven has the most difficulty based solely on position in the week. Throughout your entire life that is the time you are most regularly aware what is being taken from you.

I was probably a touch hard on the frogs.