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“Gee I’m so grateful for all this trauma.”
“Gee I’m so grateful for all this trauma.”
No one, I think, is in my tree.
I mean, it must be high or low.
Turns out that one was actually universal.
Run command: “Fiat Lux”
Warning: it will take 7 days to complete operation. Continue?
“This had better be good.”
“Fuck it, I’m tired of waiting, I’ll come back on the 8th day.”
“Oh, this IS good.”
“What are these stupid apes doing? Fine, I’ll educate them myself.”
Instantiate avatar: “Jesus_Nazareth”
Which part is directly excluded?
If we had the technological power, would humans run simulations of universes with Planck length precision? Obviously yes. So extrapolating from our one and only example of intelligent life (us), it seems like intelligent life enjoys stimulating universes. If our reality were the result of that kind of project, and the engineers lived outside the laws of physics, I would call them higher beings. And they could be as hands-off or as interventionist as they pleased.
Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.
You remind me of God in this classic:
A holocaust survivor dies of old age and goes to heaven. When he gets there, he meets God and tells him a holocaust joke.
God says, “That’s not funny.”
And the man says, “I guess you had to be there.”
Aw, come on.
“Cartoonist found dead in home. Details are sketchy.”
“Where’s the best place to hide after committing murder? Behind a badge.”
“Did you know today is the anniversary of the Jonestown massacre? I’d tell you a joke about it, but the punch line is too long.”
Yeah, robots looking at photos of kids that their parents voluntarily posted on the internet is no laughing matter. Way more serious than, say, violent crime. And nobody makes jokes about that, do they?
While I personally wouldn’t want AI inserting trains into photos of my kids without my consent, many kids like trains, and they could add some whimsy to an otherwise uninteresting picture.
This, but unironically.
Semantic stop signs, if you like.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FWMfQKG3RpZx6irjm/semantic-stopsigns
Well now I know you’re the type of person who starts a podcast newest to oldest instead of the other way around lol
No Such Thing As A Fish!
From the makers of BBC’s “QI,” a (nearly) endless collection of useless facts that will not change your life, but will make you more fun to talk to at parties. Not that you go to any parties.
It’s not about effort - it’s a matter of aesthetics.
Saw it on the big screen last night at the drive in. Flawless as always.
I’ve heard (debated) etymology that “man” is gender neutral because in older English, “male” would have been “wereman” and “female” would have been “wifman,” so the “man” morpheme just designated “human” and the prefix designated the gender.
Which does imply that "were"wolves are exclusively male, and a female wolf person really should be called a wifwolf.