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If you enjoyed Letters, keep going. Bible's full of them

Under this broad interpretation Claude didn't become conscious, it always was: as was Pacman in his own way. The claim being advanced is that it's crossed some threshold. I don't think the arguments "we don't understand threshold" or "there isn't one" bolsters the case, they render it meaningless

To all those calling this argument "stupid", "idiotic" and "asinine": give a thorough theory of human intelligence before making such claims.

loving this youraislopbores.me

Three news headlines side by side, each illustrated with a picture of Keir Starmer making an official statement in front of two British flags. Sky News, 3 hours ago Starmer denies U-turn claims after giving go-ahead for US to use UK military for strikes on... [headline truncated] Financial Times, 15 hours ago Starmer Will let US use UK bases for attacks on Iranian missile sites The Times, 21 hours ago Keir Starmer blocked US from using British bars for Iran attack

Clown show.

The general prohibition on negative words means it doesn't really matter that discover happens to have dis-. You can't unbreak a glass either (though it can be unbreakable).

Anyways, I'm just scratching the surface of the paper, which delves much deeper and is here: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009...

Even words where dis- is more a historical accident: disturb or discover. You can't undisturb the peace. You can't undiscover France. Yet just like with un-unlockable, these can be rescued by putting a suffix in the way. The peace can be undisturbed, France can be undiscovered or undiscoverable.

This rule is everywhere. It's true with prefixes: so you can't be undisunited or undishonourable, but also suffixes: you can be unmerciful but not unmerciless (ie nice).

But it's far wider than that: words that have negative meaning cannot be negated. You can be unloved but not unhated

So, onto the paper. It goes on to - bear with me - un-unlockable. Here there is no ambiguity. An un-unlockable padlock is a padlock I can't unlock. The reason the ambiguity is resolved is a general rule of words: *you cannot stack two negative elements on top of each other*. Only one tree is valid

tree diagram of un-(lock-able)

tree diagram of (un-lock)-able

An unlockable padlock could be "a padlock I can unlock" or "a padlock I can not lock". The ambiguity arises because you can assemble the word in 2 ways. Here are both in tree diagram form. The negative-adjective (neg-adj) is the padlock that cannot be locked.

As soon as we decided "to google" was a verb we were able to say 'the film called "Film" is ungoogleable".
The other reason it's assumed is you get "structural ambiguity" in words, as you can in sentences like "the man saw the boy with his telescope".

The classic example of this is "unlockable"

I read an excellent paper this weekend on possible and impossible words. It's assumed the formation of words obeys some of the rules in sentence formation (syntax). You only have to look at the route from the verb "edit" or noun "nation" to editorialise or nationalisation to see a productive process

Sir Keir supports whatever illegal shit the US tells him to

The most unpopular prime minister since records began stands resolutely behind the unprovoked attack on Iran by the two countries that are actively carrying out a genocide in the Middle East.

But please, do elaborate more about "extremism on the Left", Mr Human Rights lawyer KC.

you're a beacon in these dark times

Someone on hackernews used a great phrase for pre-2023 Wikipedia as "low background steel". If you don't know what that is (i didn't) there's a good explanation on (ofc) Wikipedia.

39C3 - AI-generated content in Wikipedia - a tale of caution YouTube video by media.ccc.de

I saw an interesting talk by a German wikipedia editor on the influence of AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKU0.... Very much chimes with your points about poisoning the well

I oppose genocide (1/2)

then i leave it playing and remember the third movement absolutely slaps.

No! Not the archduke of darkness too?

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (FULL) YouTube video by andrea romano

At times like this my partner gets me to play midnight sonata before tearfully breaking the news. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0...

I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny

Ain’t I been telling ya

I've seen the video. It's an execution.

tbf they made that movie Jumanji, and I don't know anyone who'd played the board game.

Hi it's me, author of "Fuck Unions: Why Dems Need To Destroy Those Dirty Sweaty Hogpeople" back with my latest book, "Gone Woke: How Democrats Lost Their Connection To The Working Class"

Yes now it's embarrassing

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Such a pity for Starmer. After capitulating and capitulating he said "ooh steady on" to Greenland, and now.. what? Trump's turned on him? So he debased himself for nothing? If only he could have seen that coming somehow.

Boromir from the movie The Fellow ship of the rings thinking out loud about the one ring, with the caption "Perhaps we could give the ring better training."