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Jun 15
I was a guest on Anita Nowak of McGill University's Purposeful Empathy Podcast. We talked about #AI and the Laws of #War (aka International Humanitarian Law #IHL), whether AI can be #conscious (Nah. #substratematters), #sexrobots and many other things.
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Jun 13
Fable isn't the first.
In 1999 the department of defense blocked exports of the PowerMac G4 for crossing the 1 gigaflop threshold.
Steve Jobs turned it into an ad.
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Jun 14
Fossils of the World Unite!
Jun 14
I still believe that it is extremely important to learn to read and how to stay with long form books, to identify the canon, and to go through it. I may be a fossil.
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Jun 13
Thanks to socialism, the average Zimbabwean became a trillionaire before @elonmusk 💪
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Jun 12
The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.
Jun 12
The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would have to earn a dollar a year for a trillion years straight to have that much money.
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Jun 11
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Ein Witz, der angeblich in der Ukraine kursiert:
Putin stirbt und kommt in die Hölle. Wegen guter Führung darf er ein paar Tage Urlaub in Moskau machen.
Er bestellt einen Wodka in einer Bar u. fragt den Barkeeper:
„Gehört uns eigentlich die Krim?" 1/
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Jun 7
Lol. The US remains on my no fly list. Mainly because I have been there and done that, but the erratic nature of current policy and alternating fits of woke and MAGA madness gives me good reasons not to go there.
Jun 4
The US tourism chief has hit back amid heightened fears among Aussies that they might be detained or turned away by customs over entry rules under the Trump administration.
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Jun 3
Good books that have stood the test of time.
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Jun 3
#Claude is #intelligent but not #sentient. @RichardDawkins asks what consciousness is for. It is easy to say what consciousness is NOT for. Consciousness is not for Turing computation. Turing machines remove consciousness from computation!
quillette.com/2026/06/02/the…
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unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-the…
I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.
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Jun 3
Consciousness is NOT for Turing #computation. The point of Turing computation is to remove #human #consciousness from the process.
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Jun 1
A statement from the President, Arwa Elrayess:
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May 29
If you hated the hero worship around Obama—as I did—then I don't understand making excuses for a president putting his face on buildings, currency, and passports.
Private individuals making a politician a personality trait is unhealthy. Forcing the public to do so is grotesque.
George Washington actively opposed the U.S. Mint putting his face on coinage, as it would've resembled the reverence reserved for monarchs. reason.com/2026/05/29/trumps…
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tokenmaxxing isn't "spend more on tokens" it's the opposite
tokenmaxxing = picking the right stat to max, then making everything else as cheap as physics allows
the drop in intelligence cost curve is your friend!
rather taste is the scarce input
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May 29
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
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May 29
UPDATE: the open letter to restore standardized tests in STEM admissions at the University of California has received 1000 signatures!
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May 26
University of California STEM professors want standardized tests back due to severe math deficiencies among students:
“We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle school mathematics”
“The current admissions metric, based primarily on GPA & essays, can no longer reliably distinguish readiness for university-level STEM majors in an era of severe grade inflation & AI assisted application essays”
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Both men said “I can’t breathe”, but only one man’s death was covered relentlessly by the media.
The only conclusion that can be drawn is that the legacy mainstream media is incredibly, hatefully racist against Whites.
May 29
UPDATE (AS OF MAY 29, 2026):
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May 19
The "minority quota" was filled by the1 black narrator and a pack of gay rapists?
May 18
In "The Shawshank Redemption" - there are only two female speaking roles, totaling about 10 seconds in a 2 hours and 22 minutes film
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May 16
'Just as the “what is a woman?” debate eventually exploded into mainstream politics in Britain, Australian politicians will now increasingly be forced to confront questions which many have spent years trying desperately to avoid.' #GiggleVsTickle
unherd.com/newsroom/giggle-v…
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