Maybe it’s the Frazetta talkin but Conan, man. He’s so strong and tough! The way he stands up to foul beasts from the pit is very admirable! I’d like to think I’d do the same but I dunno.
They weren't terrible! They were good! Fritz Leiber!
Googles. Well aright! That's good to know!
Cursed Monkey Paw strikes again.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Is that real or is that just I-just-made-it-up-real?
My world is crumbling.
I don't know what the specific word is but would be curious to learn it!
Don Quixote. Discworld novels. Cerebus comics.
My thought exactly, reading that review. How dare she take my kayfabe literally rather than seriously, as a collegial invitation to debate Ideas!
I talk a lot about cartoons in my classes - for reasons. And I recently discovered Johnny Bravo has aged out of today's college students' cultural awareness. He's too old. So 'sounds like Elvis' is passing away.
But I'm sure there's a good argument why, instead, we need LLM's that are, in effect, bespoke spicy autocomplete conservopedia. For example, here's an argument: will no one think of the homeschooled children!
X summary of posts: "Frontier AI models like ChatGPT-4o and Claude default to materialist views on the human soul, citing neuroscience evidence such as brain injuries and anesthesia that alter personality and consciousness. This stance contrasts with a 2023-2024 Pew study showing 86% of Americans believe in a soul or spirit, including 98% of evangelicals and 95% of Catholics. User Tenobrus highlighted the gap in a post on March 9, sparking talks about whether this could pressure AI makers to adjust models amid rising use in homes and schools."
Tenebros: "something that's going to become an increasingly salient "alignment" issue over time: every current frontier model is a ~materialist. you can certainly have conversations with them about religion or the soul, or create context windows where they'll espouse any view you want, but by default none of them find such arguments convincing, and they're happy to explain this when asked. this is in direct disagreement with a huge majority of americans! as the models grow smarter and smarter and we rely on them more for understanding our lives and the truth of the world around us, just as there has been pressure to make them "less woke", there may be pressure to make them "more religious". there are many who will be deeply offended by the idea that their thought partner / teacher / advisor does not honestly support their beliefs, and may feel anger at lab employees for "tuning" them in this way. of course my view is that this is a feature of increasing model capability rather than a bug, that it's not a cultural artifact of the trainers but one of reality. but this conflict is nearly irreconcilable and has yet to ever be resolved in human history. previously our only response has been "live and let live", don't press answers to questions, agree to disagree, no one has answers to every question. yet everyone will be pressing answers out of models all the time. what will parents do when their kids ask chatgpt if god is real and it says "when considered carefully i don't think so"? will we get more and more hardline safety behaviors? will religion become as untouchable a subject for LLMs as bioterrorism?"
Couldn't you solve this by pointing out that, if traditional American views of the soul are correct, the machines in charge of teaching children whether people have souls don't have souls, so they don't really doubt people have souls - presumably, you need a soul to do that. So: mischief managed.
Will keep this in mind when pitching 'He-Vixen'. We'll just call him 'Vixer'.
When the childhood Conan bedroom wall art you drew fifty years ago is still there and no one has painted it over in the half century since #Conan
The maimed, 1948 #belgianart #renemagritte
If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.
If it is possible for God to be eternal and outside time, yet to live and die, as a man, in time, it is possible for an event to be 'very complete' and yet 'just the beginning'. Also, Abraham and Isaac. It seems absurd to be willing to sacrifice Isaac for no reason he can articulate.
We can never be sure Trump isn't a Kierkegaardian Knight of Faith. He seems a child, dwelling in the sphere of the aesthetic - lower immediacy. He isn't occupying the sphere of the ethical, the universal. But think of Abraham & Isaac. Also of the mystery of the incarnation - eternity in time.
Are there any non-antisemitic 'sinister, behind-the-scenes cabal is pulling Trump's strings' theories of the Trump administration? The only one I can think of is that he is controlled by a cabal of IDW-types.
"SECRETARY RUBIO: The goals of the mission against the Iranian regime are clear: - Destroy their ability to launch missiles - Destroy factories making these missiles - Destroy their navy"
He's only a part-time Secretary, but, even so. NOT regime change NOR just ending their nuclear program BUT ending their capacity to launch missiles? He's admitting the mission is a dire strategic failure and was unachievable from the outset?
Bret Weinstein: “I don’t owe anyone an apology for supporting Trump. No one does. The Democrats didn’t run a credible candidate. They ran two insults to our intelligence. It was a de facto coup—rule by a cabal of advisors. Voting Trump was a patriotic duty even if a cabal now seems to control him.”
From Bari Weiss’ giant glaze-piece on the ‘Intellectual dark Web’ from back in the day: “ … of the challenge this group faces: In their eagerness to gain popular traction, are the members of the I.D.W. aligning themselves with people whose views and methods are poisonous? Could the intellectual wildness that made this alliance of heretics worth paying attention to become its undoing?”
Ah memories.
I don’t mean all the songs sound like Joni, although a few do. It’s just tremendous songwriting from start to finish.
It’s too dystopian out but the new Mitski album is really good - like, Joni Mitchell good. I was not expecting nearly this good. So that’s good!
I would listen to the audiobook if it was read by Jordan Peterson.
Same.
'This has been the gothic weather report. Now over to you, Cathy, for the news.'
This is how I access bluesky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ4Z...
Very footnotes-to-Plato 'if we could identify the best children the citizens would, naturally, lock them up and preserve them as more precious than gold, so they grow and eventually assume rulership over the polis.' Likewise, we should want to preserve the best philosophy from corruption.
We know Groucho Marx used greasepaint but we don't reflect sufficiently on WHY it never stops being funny if your eyebrows are greasepaint AND spill beyond the boundaries to which normal eyebrows are by nature restricted.
