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  1. Lucky Charms. They’re magically delicious 🦄
  2. iNow replied to grayson's topic in Ethics
    Number Five: Open Ring app and tell them to go away from my phone without even getting up from my chair
  3. 500 OpenAI employees have signed a letter saying they too will resign unless the board of directors is replaced or their decision to oust Altman is reversed.
  4. iNow replied to johnsri's topic in Biology
    Practice https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2020.00048#:~:text=The hippocampus is the “save,when you solve arithmetic problems.
  5. Uhm. Yawn. Ok. Give different prompts get different answers. Discussion point?
  6. The board says he was moving too fast, that this decision was about safety and him not going slowly enough to deal with the risks posed byAI. Then, last night Microsoft (openAIs largest funder dumping in $13B already) announced they’ve hired him and former OpenAI President Greg Brockman to work on their AI efforts directly.
  7. The future is already here. It just isn’t evenly distributed.
  8. The problem is we live in a sea of information and noise, and most of it is being shaped to help you avoid seeing the important bits. Too many people are telling too many half true stories, then too many others are adding too many new narratives of their own into the other half.
  9. Isn’t the answer here obvious, though, that you cannot possibly be anything else without invoking spirits and similar supernatural forces?
  10. The system is fundamentally built on trust, trust that those in positions of authority will enforce the rules appropriately and fairly. However, by installing corrupt allies and folks with a personal interest in disregarding rules and norms into those aforementioned positions of power, then votes and rules no longer much matter. This is why Mike Pence’s stance of not rejecting electors from the various states in 2020 was such a big deal and such a crucial lynchpin in stitching together the reality we currently share and experience. We can argue, for example, about the best stratagems and series of moves to win the game of chess before us, but when our opponent chooses to drill holes through the board, set it on fire, and introduce magical dragons and wizards as game pieces, then we must fundamentally rethink our best path forward and acknowledge that it no longer much matters whether we decide to move to Queens Rook 7 or Kings Bishop 4.
  11. iNow replied to johnsri's topic in Biology
    Neurochemistry and physiology. If you want better answers, you must learn to ask better questions.
  12. When you track how fast you're driving in your car down the highway, do you account for the backpressure applied to your windshield from the wing flap of a mosquito?
  13. Relation to thread topic of free will seems even more tenuous now. I haven’t yet determined whether this was done on purpose
  14. Humans haven’t even been around 3 hundred thousand years, and you’re taking 3 trillion with a T 🤣
  15. All very interesting questions which I’m sure philosophers will spend another 3,000 years making absolutely zero progress answering
  16. IMO, no. “Mind” is yet another arbitrary concept (or set of concepts) we try to force fit into the world in an attempt to explain our experiences and communicate with one another, but it’s a rough and often unuseful map/model of the what’s actually happening, AFAICT.
  17. The same parts of your brain that write stories or make sense of the ones you’re reading. Maybe bicameral https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/28612
  18. AI plus fMRI = Some very cool things happening in this space. Here’s just one recent study among a great many in this field (and I haven’t even mentioned how pilots can control planes with their thoughts alone, or paraplegics can move their wheelchairs without moving!): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-can-re-create-what-you-see-from-a-brain-scan/?amp=true

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