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A: "I don't understand how you're so relaxed when you don't hear from the kids. Everyone in my family is like, 'msg me right when you get home!'"
me: "Ah, [13yo] is fine. He went home and is 100% watching videos when he's not supposed to be, hoping we forgot about him so that he can get away w/ as much screen time as he can. If he were stuck on the subway or something, he'd have messaged. Actually, I'd be more worried if he DID message.&qu…

Estš muy bien recordar que la segunda república no fue maravillosa y, ya de paso, que las leyes represoras que se promulgan se le pueden volver a uno en contra cuando hay cambio de gobierno (y esto aplica a la ley de vagos y maleantes de 1933 y a chat control o la verificación de edad de 2026) https://www.

One of those things about claims of “AGI” is that to really build a human-like intelligence we’d have to simulate a human brain as whole because 1. it’s the only thing we know that produces human intelligence and 2. no one knows how it actually works.
Because of (2) it’s irrelevant what anyone says about LLMs or any other technology (with the exception of simulating a whole brain)—you can’t know if a technology is intelligent like a human because we don’t know what that means or how that works.
Fun thing, it turns out it’s impossible to simulate a whole brain with the resolution required (basically quantum physics level), and you’d have to emulate a chemical and physical environment for the brain as well (it will also need a body etc.).
You’d also have to simulate other humans with brains from which the brain can learn; but to simulate those you’d have simulate evolving humans from single-cell organisms first etc etc ad infinitum

Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is 🔥proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression,
⚠️ listing it among the Trump administration's top achievements.
"And I still believe that, obviously, and it's one of the things I'm proudest that we've done in this administration
is we've told Europe that if you want to buy weapons, you can,
but the United States is not buying weapons and sending them to Ukraine a…

Vance calls end of Ukraine aid 'one of the proudest' achievements of Trump administration
"One of the things I'm proudest that we've done in this administration is we've told Europe that if you want to buy weapons, you can, but the United States is not buying weapons and sending them to Ukraine anymore," Vance said.

Sonnet 084 - LXXXIV
Who is it that says most, which can say more,
Than this rich praise, that you alone, are you,
In whose confine immured is the store
Which should example where your equal grew?
Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so dignifies his story.
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature ma…

How #Container Images Actually Work: Layers, Configs, Manifests, Indexes, and More
https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/container-image-from-scratch

"Hi junkies^H^H^H^H^H^Hstudents! Now that we made you dependent on LLM models for coding; we're doing the obvious: only providing you with dulled down models unless you pay up!"
—Microsoft
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/189268

me: *low whistles*
me: "Damn, check out THOSE bollards!"
8yo: "What?"
me: "These metal things. they're nice, aren't they? No drivers parking on this sidewalk!"
8yo: *lays down on one*
8yo: "Yeah, they're good, I guess."
#SafeStreets

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