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one of my red flags is that I finished and absolutely loved Infinite Jest. never date me.

David Foster Wallace had it

eating an amount of salad that has to be considered unhealthy

don't worry, I would be trolled until the end of time

I foresee no problems

so far Claude has given me one delusion and it's that I, your manager's manager, could contribute to this code base

everybody calm down

Cuba: la isla de la fantasía, la tierra de la desesperación En plena ola de titulares sobre Cuba, Eliezer habla con cuatro periodistas cubanos en el exilio para entender la crisis más allá del ruido y las ideas preconcebidas.

there’s an English transcript for this episode elhilo.audio/podcast/cris...

sometimes I wonder if all these people in the bsky left have ever talked to a real-life Cuban. not the "Castro took my grandpa's plantation" gusanos, but the children and the grandchildren of the people who stayed. the heartbroken ones who have left in the last 30-20yrs.

it’s like smiling at strangers in eastern europe

i’m not posting much because i’m happy. happyposting is frowned upon.

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

oh cool! I'll try to find some. this one is a little old fashioned, I'll try to find more.

I think I like this translation poetryinternationalweb.org/pi/site/poem...

el mejor insulto latinoamericano continúa siendo "me gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente"

we're just liable human avatars for the robot, like the guy who just sit there in the self-driving car. organic fault-absorbers.

it’s a Netflix 4-part narrated by Morgan Freeman

satisfied that my favs (stegosaurus) are depicted as cool herbivores who take no shit

i started watching the documentary about Dinosaurs and, in retrospect, i should have considered it includes the relentless tragic death of all dinosaurs, which is the opposite of what i wanted

bluesky psychosis

Cognitive science in Chomsky's mold, Al risk, and AI ethics share the theoretical move that backs us into a "humanist" corner, an ever-shrinking area of things that "computers can't do." The political motivations of some of these proposals are anodyne and well intentioned, but the theories are too weak to cope with the actual intersection of culture and capitalism with which we live today. This is because they have no way of conceiving of the concrete interaction of language and compu-tation. Lacking that, the insistence on "the human" becomes a fetish that siloes meaning where we hope, wish, and want it to come from. It is sentimental semantics, the core of remainder humanism.

yes. thank you (from www.upress.umn.edu/978151791932...)

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

how dare you come for me, an International Woman, in my day

i ask tall people for favors all the time, as i lavishly compliment their verticality

right, but even if by some measure we decided they were conscious (good luck with finding consensus on that one), it doesn’t make them “human” in any meaningful sense.

“if an LLM is conscious then it’s a slave” well, no. your dog is conscious and you walk them on a leash, they’re not allowed to roam the streets. is your dog a slave?

plenty of other non-human beings are obviously conscious in whatever ways humans are. why is consciousness suddenly being talked about as a proxy for humanity?

MEN ARE DONE Getting Their HAIR CUT And Are WANDERING AROUND In THE WOODS Because They DON'T LIKE How It TURNED OUT But They Didn't SAY ANYTHING To The SUPERCUTS LADY And Now It FEELS LIKE It's TOO LATE So They're STUCK With This OLD MAN HAIRCUT Instead Of LOOKING COOL Like They IMAGINE THEMSELVES

generally a bad idea to eat creatures potentially smarter than us