“You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or…[Read more]

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

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I have yet to hear a Christian Nationalist who is not a just a paltry liar for Jesus while I think Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia is an honorable man.

Do you count?

The phrase “or belief” is not pedantry. It is the legal firewall against turning human rights into rel…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
How about waiting for AI to be sophisticated enough that it can be divorced from ideological capture?

TheEncogitationer wrote:
So an AI free of illogic or ideological capture is fantasy […]

I think what AI “will become” will be more of an issue someday, but not before “what AI will be used for” is more apparent. AI evolution…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Never mind Pope. After reading your line again i think you are indicating that the meaning has been watered down so that ambiguity is read into it rather than questioning its plain meaning and efficacy.

I wasn’t implying that, although that may not be inaccurate. SCOTUS itself has been watering down and resetting precedents on…[Read more]

(Maybe mentioning “Mush Brains” [sic] came close to hype, but that’s just me thinking of Trump as a mentally defective, parentally abused victim, but which the world would have been better…[Read more]

I greatly disliked the book title “A Universe from Nothing”, and didn’t even consider until your piece that OK, maybe the publisher pushed that name, not Krauss. Ah, Gemini AI says Krauss kept that title after his youtube video of a 2009 lecture…[Read more]

American Atheists denounces final approval of bible-infused Texas reading list.

‘Trump wears thin after a while’: Evangelicals bail on lame-duck president.

Thousands of proud men gather in central Washington for heterosexual activities.

Trump will present the…[Read more]

Last prediction I noticed was that chip prices will come down near beginning of 2027. More companies want to manufacture chips, especially with Taiwan at higher risk…[Read more]

1. Newly evolving brains added, among other fitness advantages, abilities to
   • Enhance awareness of self, and awareness of external conditions
   • Predict optimal behaviors in response
   • Execute predicted-optimal behaviors
2. Brains continued to evolve species-wide communications
   • Beyond mere chemical…

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Basically, AI’s will move off the Internet.

WTH is he talking about? Listen:

This Fourth of July, one beach town will learn the hard way that the real danger wasn’t in the water…

…it was SPF 50 with a pointed metal pole.

“You’re gonna need a bigger insurance policy.”

The Christian Church has had the audacity, in modern times, to proclaim

that it had abolished slavery and the slave trade. It is difficult to

understand how any “righteous” man could make that contention

remembering that it was not until the middle of the nineteenth century

that…[Read more]

How SCOTUS is dismantling the Separation of Church and State.

When JD Vance became a Catholic, he wondered what his dead grandmother would think. Awwwh!

The…[Read more]

Non-Deal, n.
A defeat announced at sufficient volume to be mistaken for diplomacy.

If I tip over a box of sweets and no sweets remain inside, I can quite reasonably say there is “nothing” in the box. Nobody is confused by this. I do not mean that the box contains metaphysical non-being. I do not mean that it contains the absolute absence of matter,…[Read more]

From ChatGPT:

Peace Deal, n.
A ceasefire promoted by its authors before its clauses have survived first contact with…[Read more]

I once told some auditing Scientologists that if reincarnation were true, that I would like to return as “a football pitch in the West of Ireland for the ladies field hockey final on a warm but rain-soaked Sunday “. They were ‘shocked and disgusted’, much to my amusement.

“I don’t ask for enlightenment. I ask only to be use…[Read more]

This photo and article captures the sheer excitement…[Read more]

Yes, I have seen Yarvin’s name crop up in a few articles recently. He thinks Trump is not killing democracy quickly enough and if MAGA loses the Senate  it will herald the end of the Trump administration which will “wither and ev…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
‘World-first’ vaccine designed by artificial intelligence.

That’s so cool! I visualized a way to explain fairly simply how AI can do this, treating DNA/RNA just like another language.

1) Via sheer computation, an LLM learns and documents patterns in a language, and can then predict which new patterns can be des…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Arian Playing Cards are great. Aryan ID Cards are not. Must always be bigger than the enemies of science, even if they don’t want to return the favor.

Correction and benevolence appreciated.

I lost sleep again, getting wind of even more horrible destruction in their cards by Thanksgiving or so.