You don’t see that every day

Can we please, for the love of god, stop having massive huge things happen this month? I’ll even meet in the middle - maybe we can do a few more medium sized things. No more huge please.

Red Bull: “Checo you’re seats under threat what ever you do don’t crash in Quali again” Sergio Perez: #F1 #HungarianGP

daniel riccardo seeing checos seat is in danger

Formula 1

No it’s this kiwi gif

Watching people freak out over chatGPT saying trump wasn’t shot just shows you how little people actually understand LLMs

It’s kinda beautiful in a very strange way

School is starting up next week and I am high-key excited for it This summer was tough, but I’m ready to get back to the grindstone again

There are two reactions realistic AI image/video generation: 1. “We won’t be able to automatically believe what we see on the internet!” 2. “You automatically believed things on the internet?” Be #2

The slander of generative AI is legitimately concerning, like it is something entirely independent from, and its advancements exclusive to, funny picture makers. Read literally anything about human perception and why generative capabilities are important will become obvious.

Chat is this real life?

Video game journalism at its finest

Anyone familiar with Korsgaard’s framing of the “normative question” from The Sources of Normativity? It sort of awakened something in me I took for granted before in discussions of ethics. Why is it that moral norms seem to have a pull beyond all others? Where is the sauce?

Imagine for a moment that the Chinese room experiment was modified in such a way that the translator had the terms beamed into their head so that when they saw a word or sentence in English, they also were aware of its Chinese counterpart. Do they know Chinese?

Say that you are a person whose only language is Chinese. You are given a book on English and told to learn it, however, the English has been put through a cypher that renders all of the characters numbers without changing any grammar rules. At the end, do you know English?

Everybody gangsta til the snakes start walkin