That first one looks like he’d deliver milk to your house and sleep with your spouse

new phones look goofy with all the extra cameras and circles of dubious functionality

i want a phon with no cameras cus i never uses em so why should i pay for hardware i don’t need?

I can’t believe China has already met the very high bar set by american innovators, someone check the servers at twitter-dot-com to make sure the advanced code for Grok™is still secure

AI - minds of raw data, but without any ability to reflect or ground that information in reality

you know you’re actually serious about it when you try to find a niche message board dedicated to thing

monsters are just thinly disguised references to the ruling class

Dragons covet gold, killing sheep and cattle while people starve? Gaawssshhh what could that have been a reference too? Just quirky medieval fairy-tales I guess

ever seen a dollar bin box on the floor of a shop? great way to find weird films

Gotta work through feudalism to get to capitalism

gotta evolve through markets and keep careful practice to grow a healthy, long-lasting biosphere

the… only… system… that… works…

UNTIL IT ISNT

i’m all for using tariffs to expand your local productive capacity, but describing market forces as “invasion” is just silly. You want invasion? France is still running an old-school colonial empire – for fuck’s sake, they’re charging reparations for “”““freeing””“” the countries they violently took over in the first place!

Treating things as things -> me, cool, historical

Treating people as things -> you, “logical”

importing the yankee’s hardon for punishment, i see

They put more history in it. That’s practically a service to the museum, a value add. Ought to be commemorated for it, really.

this is a victimless crime that is also crimeless because it shouldn’t be illegal

bloodborne

Personally, I see that as a sign the strategy is working. Using market forces to your advantage, as a nominally socialist organization, is inevitably going to draw a lot of criticism from your left. You get two groups: purists who see any sort of market action as an immediate and disqualifying sin; and more principled materialists who understand the rational, but also recognize the risk of being overwhelmed by market forces. It’s nice to say you will strip out private capital in the future, but when will that actually be? When the conditions are right, will it actually happen? Worse, will your organization even be able to recognize those conditions? These are important questions, but we’re not gonna see the answer any time soon.

In the mean time, western leftist doing the fire-&-brimstone preacher act is useful. Capitalists (the smarter, self-aware capitalist…) hear leftist discord over China and interpret that as meaning their oversees investments are safe.

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it’s funny seeing the ocean depicted in games and movies as a vibrant & lively, and then compare it to my one experience of snorkeling, which was the shallow-water equivalent of this. But with more cola cans.

I agree that there are similarities in how groups of nerve cells process information and how neural networks are trained, but I’m hesitant to say that’s a whole picture of the human mind. Modern anesthesiology suggests microtubuals, structures within cells, also play a function in cognition.

My definition of a Turing machine? I’m not sure you know what Turing machines are. It’s a general purpose computer, described in principle. And, in principle, a computer can only carry out one task at a time. Modern computers are fast, they may have several CPUs stitched together and operating in tandem, but they are still fundamentally limited by this. Bodies don’t work like that. Every part of them is constantly reacting to it’s environment and it’s neighboring cells - concurrently.

You are essentially saying, “Well, the hardware of the human body is very complex, and this software is(n’t quite as) complex; so the same sort of phenomenon must be taking place.” That’s absurd. You’re making a lopsided comparison between two very different physical systems. Why should the machine we built for doing sums just so happen to reproduce a phenomena we still don’t fully understand?