Yeah, that’s where my mind is at too.

AI in its present form does not act. It does not do things. All it does is generate text. If a human responds to this text in harmful ways, that is human action. I suppose you could make a robot whose input is somehow triggered by the text, but neither it nor the text generator know what’s happening or why.

I’m so fucking tired of the way uninformed people keep anthropomorphizing this shit and projecting their own motives upon things that have no will or experiential qualia.

It’s hard to overstate how badly one must fuck up to drive Britain into the arms of FRANCE.

I could really use some scale on this image. Are these the galactic filaments of the laniakea supercluster?

As it stands, Sol and the interstellar gas cloud it and a couple hundred other stars reside within are in the middle of a 100-parsec-wide void where stellar density drops to near zero which we have named “the local bubble” in the Orion Spur connecting two arms of the Milky Way right now.

It is far from the first time a structure we’re part of is in the middle of nothing.

“I can fix her”?

She can break me.

“… You guys seein’ this shit?” --Third pillar
“Yeah… I’m seeing it.” --Second pillar
“I wish I hadn’t seen it…” --First pillar

I’m almost entirely certain the median is zero, and it’s beyond doubt that the mode is definitely zero.

… It’s like we forgot, as a whole society, how to build houses. What the fuck is wrong with us. Jesus fucking CHRIST.

I’m never giving up this house. My grandparents bought it in 1953. I can’t imagine any “production” house will ever be as good as this one and it’s not like this one is even particularly great. Basic competency is becoming rarer by the year.