Radial

We have functional agency

Is this scientifically provable? I don’t see how this isn’t a subjective statement.

Artificial intelligence requires agency and spontaneity

Says who? Hollywood? For almost a hundred years the term has been used by computer scientists to describe computers using “fuzzy logic” and “learning programs” to solve problems that are too complicated for traditional data structures and algorithms to reasonably tackle, and it’s really a very general and fluid field of computer science, as old as computer science itself. See the Wikipedia page

And finally, there is no special sauce to animal intelligence. There’s no such thing as a soul. You yourself are a Rube Goldberg machine of chemistry and electricity, your only “concepts” obtained through your dozens of senses constantly collecting data 24/7 since embryo. Not that the intelligence of today’s LLMs are comparable to ours, but there’s no magic to us, we’re Rube Goldberg machines too.

That’s just kicking the can down the road, because now you have to define agency. Do you have agency? If you didn’t, would you even know? Can you prove it either way? In any case, this is no longer a scientific discussion, but a philosophical one, because whether or not an entity has “intelligence” or “agency” are not testable questions.

These systems do not display intelligence any more than a Rube Goldberg machine is a thinking agent.

Well now you need to define “intelligence” and that’s wandering into some thick philosophical weeds. The fact is that the term “artificial intelligence” is as old as computing itself. Go read up on Alan Turing’s work.

I think the matrix would be a great one. I have no idea why it’s rated r

I don’t speak or read German but every once in a while a meme will have a critical mass of words I understand because of their proximity to English, and the German 100% amplifies the meme.

If anything, to me it seems more important for a slower language to be optimized. Ideally everything would be perfectly optimized, but over-optimization is a thing: making optimizations that aren’t economical. Even though c is many times faster than python, for many projects it’s fast enough that it makes no practical difference to the user. They’re not going to bitch about a function taking 0.1 seconds to execute instead of 0.001, but they might start to care when that becomes 100 seconds vs 1. As the program becomes more time intensive to run, the python code is going to hit that threshold where the user starts to notice before c, so economically, the python would need to be optimized first.

Eh, I upvoted. Sure traveling the world is neat and all, and I would if I could, but traveling to a nearby national Park or something like that for the weekend costs nothing but gas and time and the chance to “touch grass” is worth it. I’d wager that most people have a neat spot locally that they’ve never visited, I have a few of those myself that I’m aware of.

I’m American, but somehow learned and got used to spelling it “grey” instead of “gray”. I have no clue how that happened.

That’s nuts

I think the head is supposed to be the y-axis in all of these

I might as well not have one here in the states, I’m not wealthy enough. My health plan is to walk it off until I die young

The Dinks

Heck

Toot

Red Hot Chili Peepers

Green Dad

Scone Temple Pilots

Queefs of the Stone Age

Miner Threat ⛏️

Charles Dingus

Lady Maga

Foul

Men at Dork

The Beach Bols

Black Flab

Audioshave

Dropdick Murphy’s

Stevie Winder

Steely Pan

Billy Squeer

Supertrump

Feces

The Boobie Brothers

Styf

Feart

Yep

The Why

Alice Pooper

Thin Jizzy

Harvey Wanger

Blind Felon

Bagles

The Polite

Parole King

Ten Folds

Git bash, also that screenshot looks like the Windows terminal app