Billie M Jones

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Another thought on this: If they’re killed off fast enough, the bacteria aren’t around to evolve.

Yes, absolutely. Just a side-note, elsewhere in that video they were also discussing how to terminate pathogens with a “cocktail” approach, which is applying more than one treatment at once in order to kill faster, lea…[Read more]

I wonder if the Saudi’s in partnership with Jared would be interested in this ‘piece of prime real estate’.

That last one?  Made me laugh out loud.

@simonpaynton

“Murder is wrong”.  You are presenting this as a choice. We choose not to murder because it’s wrong.

But that’s not what stops us from randomly killing annoying people.  We don’t think “I want to throttle you but I’d better not because it’s wrong”.

I mock myself for my revulsion of killing. I ridicule my efforts to get a fl…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!

Promoting Incompetence

Wannabee authoritarians can “take over” institutions by corrupting them first, then claim it’s proof that they need to eliminate or rebuild them. It’s a wrecking ball approach.

E.g. usurping the authority of well trained and dedicated experts in the field of medicine. Obviously there are a lot more examples of this in…[Read more]

Lezbrews?  Need any research help, just give me a shout, guys.

edited to clarify – we are not talking about coffee, right?

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Translated: “Speedrunning democracy%” = self-sabotage for clout. “Jesus co-signed the tax fraud” = mixing religion with political delusion. “Bible thumping with zero patch notes” = outdated beliefs, no updates. “NPC behavior” = mindless repetition of slogans. “Revelations didn’t cover indictments” = karm…

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Thanks, I appreciate those examples of radio history. Even that recently, I was in a stage of ignoring most radio shows. Even as an atheist back then, I didn’t like Dawkins or Hitchens because I thought they were too strident or disrespectful. It took a while for me to mature enough to appreciate them. I was more in awe of Dennett at the time.

I…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
However he stands on the shoulder of a giant from the not too distant past.

omg omg lol lolrotfl [sic?]

That is hilarious! (I actually did laugh out loud, but didn’t rotfl.)

Almost halfway through, I switched to the youtube original and turned on captions, which helped a little, but not enough. That was good, especially…[Read more]

Thank you Jake that was just what I needed.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Once again, AI has miles to go before we can sleep with ease about it.

And those miles will be on fundamentally different kinds of roads. Currently, I liken AI to Reddit, in that there is some really great, useful stuff there, written by humans. I think if AI now as amplifier to whatever’s available on the internet, just…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg 🙂

jakelafort wrote:
AI has been so many things. Some positive. Some negative. As things stand they are accelerating our path to destruction, causing our worst impulses and behavioral glitches to a place beyond snitches get stitches.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Until AI can express thoughts like these without prompting, it is not an equal, much less…

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This accidental find is for @jakelafort