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My sister is asking me if I might want to join her and her kids on a hypothetical trip to the Outer Banks in North Carolina this summer. Any trans people have any experience with that area? Would that...
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A newborn baby is already more intelligent than a LLM will ever be.Get back to me when they build an AI that actually *wants* to learn. I'll be impressed when someone builds a machine that has...
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I wonder if the modern conception of "artificial intelligence" is a category error. As in, if being alive is a prerequisite to intelligence, and the entire notion that it should be possible to build an...
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Just had a daydream that I found hilarious: when we finally come up with a theoretical framework for what intelligence is and how to make it from scratch, it is conclusively proven that capitalism is...
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I.e., what if someone manages to prove with mathematical precision that capitalism is garbage lol
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I think the obsession with predictable and consistent outcomes is always the thing that will inhibit a true artificial general intelligence from being built by a capitalist enterprise.A truly...
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This is something that is showing up more and more lately. Wherever a corporation cannot eliminate people and replace them with robots, they try to structure the environment such that the people are...
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Is there a word for the philosophical idea of something that, through the act of pursuing it, becomes impossible to obtain?
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The classic example of something like this is happiness, but I'm positive there are other things like this. I would be extremely surprised if such a concept has not been explored in philosophy and...
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I'm feeling nostalgic today and was reminded of SimCity 2000. Anyone have any advice on the best way to run and play that game today? What about Rollercoaster Tycoon?
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I don't know if this is an ADHD thing or not, but I go back and forth on getting any gender affirming procedures. Some days I barely register that I have a body, let alone how it looks. Some days I...
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I'm having trouble generating motivation and staying focused, and I started to harass myself internally about it but then I remembered it's been over a week without ADHD meds, and I'm in a sleep...
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I mean, I shouldn't be harassing myself at all about it, regardless, but *especially* not right now
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annoyance, insomnia, cannabis useCan't fall asleep again, so I said "fuck it" and got out of bed. Now I'm getting high on an edible and playing a game. Not sure which game yet. Maybe I'll actually...
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Keurig machines are convenient and handy for me because I usually don't drink more than one cup, but I feel like all I've gotten from using them is that I have no idea how to actually brew coffee
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I don't know if this is an #ADHD experience other people share, or just my uniquely broken psyche, but the most frustrating aspect of being off my meds (and the part that's returned in force lately for...
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I don't mean things aren't as enjoyable (though that is true to some degree). I mean that it's almost like I'm not *allowed* to enjoy anything. There's this voice in my head that is constantly...
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