Clockwork Elf @clockwork_elf

Look at the human body as a weapon. It is embarrassing. No claws. Fingernails that lose a fight with cardboard. No fangs. Flat little teeth that struggle with a tough steak. No armour. Skin a bramble can open. No fur. Cold kills us in a night. No speed. A squirrel outruns us. A toddler loses to a goose. No strength. A chimp half our weight could take us apart. No venom. No shell. No horns. No wings. Pound for pound, we are the softest large animal in the field. And we hunted every one of them to the edge. Because everything went into one organ instead. The human brain. Twenty percent of your energy, run by a body that skipped every other upgrade. And it is built from fat and animal food. DHA from fish and meat. B12 found in no plant alive. Cholesterol, the scaffolding of every brain cell you own. The ape that started eating meat grew the brain. The brain built the spear. The spear ended the argument with every animal that had the claws and the fangs and the speed. A soft, slow, clawless creature became the apex predator of the entire planet, on the strength of one organ made of the exact food we are now told to cut out for our health. We ate our way to the top of the food chain. Now they want us to eat our way back down.

@jeremykauffman @RealMartyT7 FBI? these dudes look like they're trying to give you an estimate for solar panels

@jeremykauffman @RealMartyT7 handled it like a boss, those two were absolutely pathetic

@kylecordes @reddit_lies capitalism = White supremacy = fascism = everything I don't like

@graysonguinn_ @memeticsisyphus I get that, that's why I'd set up an exile territory that criminals could be sent to if no other country wanted them

@jeremykauffman What were the questions?

@LUrkerspil @SamaHoole Sama doesn't have that low of body fat, he's posted his percentage before.

@Britishbugger74 @SamaHoole you can get real sliced cheese, probably cheddar in this case. I highly doubt those are the typical plastic wrapped American cheese slices!

An interesting paradox is that we are in a golden age of sociology, psychology, political science, and anthropology. It’s just happens that all of the ‘important work’ is being performed by unlicensed, ideologically noncompliant, and often anonymous practitioners.

@FuhrerScholar @memeticsisyphus agreed, corporal punishment done in public for the added humiliation factor.

@jane_khaled @SamaHoole mmm, lamb is so good!

@Hmanlogic97 @WiggerMaggot he didn't predict anything, he just held up a mirror. many of his storylines and characters were pulled directly from the news.

@TheAtlantic @tebartl hmm, an exercise in projecting a masculine image you say? x.com/i/status/20767…

The Atlantic @TheAtlantic

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The Democratic manly man is back, @russellberman reports, with the party embracing masculinity as a campaign strategy. theatln.tc/hxYEVGbk 📸: Amy Lynn Powell for The Atlantic

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First of all no, we're not doing this. I do not answer DMs from a company that is trying to do damage control AFTER they have ruined the trust of Americans. I do not have "good faith" debates with people who want to enslave me in a fishbowl that they can monitor at all times. Guess what guys: We don't actually have to give anyone the benefit of the doubt, or engage in "good faith" debates with bad actors. I don't have to justify my concerns about Flock to anyone. But since this condescension pissed me off, I will respond publicly, since Flock seems to want to keep our voices in the shadows and out of the public eye. Note the argument: "You see, King George specifically authorized quartering troops among you, I don't know what you're complaining about it's ALL LEGAL". Well, golly gee guys, I guess it's all right then, they made it legal. That's exactly the problem. Notice how nobody has a problem with standard security cameras. Public security cameras are not the problem...directly pumping the feed of every square inch of the country into a centralized federal database is one HELL of a problem and we must do everything within our rights as Americans to push back against efforts like this, if we are to have a future as a nation. Flock, much like Palantir, took the decently good idea of improving security, and implemented it in the most cartoonishly evil way possible at nearly every single step. They are working directly for all levels of government....not the citizenry. They use subterfuge, legal technicalities, and every single trick in the book to put up hundreds of cameras every single day. They constantly mislead the public about what databases their sensors feed into, and who they sell the metadata to. They have so little oversight that it's laughable, and ALL oversight involves the classic case of "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing". Flock has been caught lying MANY times, and misleading the public regarding what their cameras actually do. Newsflash...they don't just read license plates. They are also concealing which agencies purchase their data specifically so as to avoid getting warrants, and in doing so they have turned the ENTIRE COUNTRY into an open air prison....where THEY get to provide the intelligence data to those who enforce the laws as selectively as they please. And their defense for doing so? "Aww look at the cute puppy we rescued" or "We arrested one guy using our camera network, we're so AWESOME". You don't get to arrest one genuine criminal, and use that as justification to set up and entire Minority Report-esque surveillance system to surveil the entire country. You don't get to betray trust, and then be sad that people don't trust you. You don't get to cozy up to the boot of tyranny so much that you become the boot yourself, and then pretend to be just "one of the guys". We will not fall for this gaslighting, no matter how hard they try. For some reason, many people think that private companies can't be tyrants, which could not be further from the truth. At a certain point, a private company can be so heavily embedded within government, that they might as well BE the government. Except they are worse, because we don't even have the tiniest way to hold them accountable except for taking the billion-dollar company to court. That's my problem with Flock, Palantir, and pretty much every single other defense contractor in existence. I will NOT accept every single facet of my life being monitored, just in case a criminal commits a crime somewhere near me. I will NOT live in "ze pod", no matter which politician is in power, and I will not accept a future where people like this will dictate to me what my country should be.

@WatcherontheWeb @Ferengi_Fiscal LLMs aren't based on code though so what do you mean by self improvement? None of these systems have the ability to make iterative improvements on themselves at this point. There's talk about automating research but that's something else entirely.

@WatcherontheWeb @Ferengi_Fiscal Hmm. My own personal metric for AGI is if it can consistently solve a Quordle or Connections puzzle. I test the various offerings every few months and the results are always hilariously wrong.

@Ferengi_Fiscal @WatcherontheWeb I think that depends on if AGI and ASI are actually achievable.

@Seano299 @memeticsisyphus So basically mix of the golden rule and NAP. Does an agent have to have human level consciousness?Can a pzombie be an agent?

@Seano299 @memeticsisyphus @blightersort a plant grows towards the light to optimize photosynthesis, are they an agent?