Perchance?

When it comes to that saying, i honestly couldn’t care more.

Bacteria respond to stimuli. Would you call them intelligent?

I’m not certain - probably not but I’m not certain where to draw the line. A cat is definitely intelligent, so is a cow - the fact that I don’t think bacteria is intelligent might be a question of scale or de deanthropomorphism… but intelligence probably only emerges in multicellular organisms.

I won’t fight you on that hill but I also think you’re putting human intelligence on a pedestal that it doesn’t really deserve. Intelligence is just responding to stimuli and while current AI can’t rival human intelligence it’s not inconceivable it could happen in the next two generations.

Real players elevate their belts so they can run their pipelines directly on the ground because, and I can’t express this strong enough, fuck headlift with a rusty spork.

If more than half the country is insane then America is an insane country. The number of insane people seems to be around 35% right now - but if it did get above 50% then, well, we’re fucked. Do we admit America is a failed state or do we form an authoritarian liberal government to steer the population correctly inspite of the popular will.

That’d be a fucking hard question and I hope we don’t get there - as long as possible I’d like to believe in democracy.

AI is an extremely broad term - chatgpt and stable diffusion are absolutely within the big tent of AI… what they aren’t is an AGI.

What he was fighting for was an awful lot more important than a tool to write your emails while causing a ginormous tech bubble.

Shoulda hoped for something better.

And don’t forget turnwise! (which is the opposite rotational direction defined by the direction the disc turns)

Fuck this kind of political gamesmanship. We need ranked choice so fucking bad.

Form out of band relationships with coworkers you trust to get a base going then send an email to everyone from your department from an anonymous email address to solicit feedback and organize a vote.

Unions are legal in all occupations. There may be restrictions on some form of collective action (i.e. the government can force strikers back to work) but organizing is never illegal.

If you’re talking about a service like copilot and your employer won’t buy a license for money reasons - run far and run fast.

My partner used to be a phone tech at a call center and when those folks refused to buy anything but cheap chairs (for the people sitting all day) it was a pretty clear sign that their employer didn’t know shit about efficiency.

The amount you as an employee cost your employer in payroll absolutely dwarfs any little productivity tool you could possibly want.

That all said - for ethical reasons - fuck chatbot AIs (ML for doing shit we did pre chatgpt is cool though).

Right now I’m in BC. All my wilds are already on fire.

Come on and slam! And welcome to the jam!

I feel like Walz will be able to call Vance on whatever bullshit he’s peddling… but not having a neutral fact checker is a terrible idea.

Spain and Portugal are pretty swell. We’ve been looking at Iberia as a potential option.

And that’s why I make art completely without instruction or man made tools. I actually independently developed cellphones and English purely to dunk on people on the internet.

I was, until recently, a manager who had to be on the other side of it. Thankfully, now I just code monkey to my heart’s content.