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gotta update the selection-on-observables meme for class today

Waiting for EA to decide that the best charity intervention is to build a nonprofit hospital in a poorly served area, these completing their transition to becoming a Catholic charity.

In 2018, Scientists worked on a Minimal Turing Test: a single word that would convince someone you were human. Evaluators figured "Love" was the best choice, but not by much.

sciencedirect.com/science/arti!

Today, we know what word will distinguish between Human and AI.

Starting a business to pay myself a nice salary from Venture Capital money while I work on a failed project and my team is eventually acquihired by a BigCo is just working for a BigCo with extra steps.

@futurebird So the crappy kinds of search results we see today? That's what success looks like for Google, meeting the needs of People of the Phone.

Have those suggesting transformative AI is imminent started a hedge fund to pay for the retirement of those who didn't save for retirement because they expected the world to end?

_Jesus Revolution_

25% Boomer nostalgia, 25% Ministerial, 50% Historical docudrama, they somehow manage to mostly dodge being a Christian film, despite being a film about people coming to Christianity.

Conversion is still unfilmable, but the historical story holds up.

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@niplav @Humpleupagus @Bobson

Step one: let's see if I got any replies overnight.

Step two: why does my reply tab look like a second, insane, timeline?

Step three: oh.

What movie should I watch tonight?

Marlowe or Jesus Revolution?

Consider an AI that generates hot anime girls, but over time swaps in more catgirls, then more detailed catgirls until it has groomed the user into a furry.

@deprecated_ii me when I heard there's a new _Spice and Wolf_ anime project in the works.

@amerika "Diversity" is the officially approved reason that allows you to be racist. (But only in one direction.)

Do we have any idea how many TPUs there are?

(TPU is the supercomputer/cluster needed to train a modern AI.)

The only people who use the term "reverse racism" are the people who claim it's impossible.

Using the term is a tell that you're not speaking to people who are concerned about racism against white people; you're just talking _about_ them.

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