To be honest, that's me too! (And I also might be autistic.) But I'm capable of thinking things out verbally, something I do particularly in regard to programming and architecture problems, or figuring out what to say to someone else. So it's a tool that's available to me. I don't think it's available to my dog, but I'll bet he's doing virtual paws.

But they can make plans, they have goal-oriented behavior that drives them to seek out a goal that exists beyond their senses. If I leave the house through the front door without giving my dog his customary distraction, he goes out the back door and around the side because he knows that, if I haven't properly secured the fence, he can get out through the fence to reach me. Nothing about that involves his senses, it's just something he's figured out.

Now, I doubt any part of that involves an internal monologue because they don't use language (even though they can, in fact, understand limited language). If they don't use it themselves, they probably don't figure things out in their heads that way, it simply wouldn't be very efficient. But they certainly possess more complex internal cognition than just "I smell food" or whatever.

ARM looking pretty good too these days

Actually makes me wonder whether they'll try to pressure Trump to quit, for these same reasons.

I mean, he definitely won't quit, but they might try.

AI needs human content

Obviously I know what you mean here and I agree with the sentiment, but there's an interesting wrinkle: Intelligence doesn't need human content, since it arose without any. It needs stimuli. Life and central nervous systems evolved in the presence of the universe; light sensors, chemical sensors. Eventually we developed lots of other senses and we used those to build our models (literally mental models!), almost entirely without any human input, since most of that happened before humans existed.

I think the LLM field might well collapse without new human input--maybe it's too early to be sure one way or the other--but we can still go further by constructing actual senses and a way to explore the world and making computers learn from that.

Weird, I can see the thumbnail (too small to really appreciate this description) but when I click through there's no image. Did my ad blocker remove it?

(edit: no, turning off the ad blocker didn't help)

There's a lesson here for lurkers looking at this conversation :-) Block people all you want. You don't need a good reason. There's no Socratic Method Fairy who's gonna get mad at you for refusing to engage with bad faith arguments, lying, or abuse. Just click on the username, the block button is near the top and pretty big.

About to block a few accounts here myself.

They're banned now, so somebody definitely found one.

What if you just reported them anyway without waiting for independent committee confirmation that someone is a piece of shit?

The ending of Furiosa really enhances the notion that these are folk tales. They describe but also film multiple depictions of the fate of one of the main characters, as if different tellings of the story give a different ending.

My thought is that it becomes a lot less scarce if 99% of the population is dead and the remaining oil only has to cover the needs of 1%. Even less than that, in fact, because you had to be an elite raider type to even have a working vehicle. Most of the remaining population just live in the dirt and get out of the way when cars go by.

I'm surprised by the omission of the war rig? Mad Max drove it himself for a while.

Starting to think the reason Elon opposes the "woke mind virus" is not because his daughter is trans, but because he keeps getting owned so fucking hard by her

lmfao nice

Honestly, same. That was scary as hell. Then she raised 81 million dollars immediately, started beating him in the polls immediately, started listening to Bernie Sanders, and I'm stoked.

Leaning into the "she's a cop" thing, which, fine, might as well.

I probably will eventually.

Wouldn't even take a month, just prepay for those reserved instances.

I am slightly ashamed to admit the reason I'm not going to consider pop os is the stupid way they write it: Pop!_OS.

I'm already running 11 Linux VMs (and 3 bare metal Linux OS's) in my homelab so I think I've got plenty of Linux here anyway.