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⠀𓎟𓎟⠀⠀⠀❛ Do you collect physical media? If so, what? ❜
Not really, I mean I have a small collection of music CDs, an even smaller collection of movie DVDs (most of them bootlegged), and a ton of old software CDs and DVDs I'll never use and backup DVDs, but for the most part all my media is on a few HDDs/SSDs and some backup flash drives. Oh, and I also have a whole box full of floppies from the '90s that probably don't even work anymore.
Do you know latin?
No, but it would be cool if I did. I tried studying the language before, but the many cascading tables of tense, person, part of speech, gender, plurality, conjugations and declensions, or whatever were way too much for me to try to memorize. I thought about learning Latin Sine Flexione instead, but it felt too much like playing in the special Olympics. Some Latin phrases I know are
E pluribus unum - Out of many, one
Ex contradictione quodlibet - From a contradiction, anything follows
Ex post facto - I don't remember - after the fact?
De facto - in reality as opposed to technically, or something like that
Ad hoc - Made up for the situation
A priori - like a prior or first principle, an idea that comes first
Post hoc ergo propter hoc - After, therefore because of - the fallacy that B happened after A therefore A caused B
Pro bono - for free, I think? regarding legal services
Anno domini - the year of our Lord
Ad hominem - to the person - the fallacy of attacking the person's character rather than the idea
Ad infinitum - and so on and so on infinitely
Et cetera - and others
Et alia - and others
Argumentum ad absurdum - to prove an idea wrong by showing that it leads to an absurdity
Quand est providi - QED - thus it is proven
Salve - hello, goodbye
I know more but I can't think of them atm.
Are some Tik-Tokers the worst scum ever? They spread the idea the 24th of April is the legal rape-women day. May these scumbags get burnt hands by their smartphones batteries that went ablaze.
˚⠀ 𓏲𝄢⠀ Question
⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Of The Day.ᐟ⠀ 𓂃⠀
❝What's Your
⠀ Favorite Dessert.ᐣ❞
It's really neat, it's been like a year since ChatGPT and GPT-4 were released, and I'm still amazed every time I see one or the other in action.
I'm skeptical that true AGI is actually achievable, though, since I think that would require actual consciousness, and AI can't be conscious since consciousness/life is not an algorithm, it's cosmic and ineffable.
So I also think it's ridiculous whenever people bring up possible ethical concerns about the use of AI. Though we should definitely consider the ethics of possible robotics that make use of actual biological neural networks.
Why can biological neural networks harbor experience while computer algorithms can't? I've written some about that here: https://philosophy.inhahe.com/2019/09/13/on-the-possibility-of-artificial-general-intelligence/ Basically, I don't think either can actually be the seat of consciousness, but biology can be a vessel for life/consciousness, while computer algorithms can't for reasons I explain in the essay. It's an interesting question what types of systems other than biology or biological neural networks can also be a vessel for life/consciousness.
Another thought I have about AI is that it's going to cost a lot of people their jobs. Ideally, automating labor would be a good thing, because that's more product society gets for less overall labor, but unfortunately the system more or less requires that you work in order to receive any goods or services that you need to live, so in practice it's very problematic. It's more or less the same problem we have with cheap overseas labor.
Another problem with the proliferation of AI is the low quality of its output, in the senses that (a) it lacks the actual touch of life, which makes it deleterious for very subtle reasons, and (b) it tends to hallucinate in very convincing ways, so people get misinformed, and we don't even always know when we're reading the products of AI.
I also suspect that in some mystical/metaphysical way, simulating intelligence on a non-living machine is actually diabolical and deadly in the bigger scheme of things.
𐙚 ꒰ qotd
‧̥°̩̥˚̩̩̥͙𖢅ིྀུ°̩̥ starting off basic : Whats ur favorite movie?
I have no idea, I'd have to categorize all my hundreds of favorite songs by decade...I don't tend to know/think of which song is from which decade. But some that come to mind that are probably from the '80s or '90s are Wumpscut - Thorns, Loreena McKennitt - Greensleeves, Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner, Linda Brava - Flame, Madonna - La Isla Bonita, The Kelly Family - An Angel..
[all] i got called a human wikipedia today
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‧̥°̩̥˚̩̩̥͙𖢅ིྀུ°̩̥ whats your favorite song, and favorite line/lyric of it? Or the meaning of it.
I don't know what my favorite song is, there's a few I could choose from. I'll say, this time, Suzanne Vega - Penitent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9jPDq8jarY
I love a lot of the lyrics from this song, but the first part that comes to mind is:
I look for you in heathered moor
The desert, and the ocean floor
How low does one heart go
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