I really don't understand the confidence with which people hold this position. Philosophers have been arguing for thousands of years over what subjective experience *even is* and there's no consensus. How can we be sure that AI not only doesn't have such experiences but never

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I used to feel like majoring in philosophy was actually really useful for the 2020s, but what it's amounted to is being tortured weekly by people's ridiculously popular folk theories of the mind being magic

This man needs a harley so bad.

It was the best of timelines, it was the worst of timelines. -Dickens, probably.

This is my wife, but about yarn.

I'm not going to lie, one of my favorite things from Chinese culture is the hopping dead. Also, the whole "write your magic on paper receipts" bit. I don't know why, but I love that in every movie I've seen it in.

Let’s celebrate International Women’s Day in solidarity with Iranian and Afghan women who are oppressed by religious dictatorships but still continue to fight everyday. This video is what feminism looks like to me

The reason why I'm a broken record on how political opinions act as status signals is that it determines extremely important real-world outcomes. This is what happens when people adopt the most moronic opinions because the moronic opinion happens to be high-status.

Pro tip: You can absolutely be racist in leftist circles, you just have to call them diaspora.

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Regular CPI sucks. So I had Claude build the RPI (Redneck Price Index) with shit that matters: 150hp Evinrude, Copenhagen, 1# of nails, 30-pack, singlewide, propane, duct tape, fishing license, full-size truck, A/T tires & .30-06 ammo. Not looking great.

2015 ME. “hey, how’s everything in —” 2026 ME. “can’t talk now, they just Max Headroomed a fruit fly” 2015 ME. “they what” 2026 ME, festooning self with ammunition-filled bandoliers, piling canned goods into backpack. “Max Headroomed a fruit fly”

this must genuinely be the worst time in history to be schizophrenic

I don't want to undermine the great work many folks do translating foreign language posts for english speakers on this platform, as they are doing a great thing. But I'm really impressed at the translation facilities X has built in. I've often compared, and it's been mostly solid

"Every fact I don't like is propaganda." Sigh.

"why are we learning stupid stuff like integration by parts? why don't we learn useful things in school, like how to do taxes?" the monkeys paw curls

My main takeaway when people bring these examples up is that screenwriters actually used to read books.