I was deeply disappointed that the thread in which I found this comment, would not let me comment "dis/intercourse" so I had to do it here.
You're welcome.

Alas, I think disinformation has been around a lot longer than that. The lead (Pb) industry and the tobacco industry, at least, used disinformation decades earlier. And the creationists sowed science skepticism, which the oil disinformation industry harvested.

While you're at it, set fire to any copies of the NYTimes you come across, muttering "all you had to do was print the f@cking truth..."

I'm against annihilation in general, of civilizations and people in particular.

And: you know what your brain is made of? The rarest, most exotic stuff in the universe. Atoms are only 5% of the universe, and atoms with interesting chemistry are 0.03%. Matter *is* magical.

Ugh, I've had BPPV and it's miserable. I hope you get some quick relief!

I got on the train at 96th st, heading downtown. A gentleman stood in the door of the car, asking "does this train go to Brooklyn?" I couldn't answer, because I wasn't sure where the train went after 14th St. Oh God, I've become a New Yorker cartoon.

I had a Charlie Brown hand puppet. Actually, it was meant to be a bath sponge, but why would you rub poor Charlie's face all over yourself? Anyway, I would have conversations with it, because no-one at my rural school was interested in anything I wanted to talk about. My teachers were worried.

Missed opportunity. After starting out by saying "I won't be able to watch the President's speech..." she should have ended with a lame excuse to complete the joke. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go..." Wash my hair is a classic, but sexist. Walk the dog, defrost the freezer, grout the tub...

I worked at ITA Software for ten years, five of those after Google bought the company (best thing that ever happened to me!) I never expected Carl's presentation to show up in a discussion about what a mind is, but it's not entirely surprising.

Do I hear 10? Going once...

5,800

One hour after your post, he's at 5,700 followers.

LLMs simply manipulate symbols—just as I imagine that experienced mathematicians do. Could it be that in this one domain, LLMs really do operate like people?

From the outside, it looked like they could simply read the statement and manipulate the symbols directly to produce a theorem. It was a lot faster, but inaccessible to me.
Which brings me to Zach's post. Obviously the LLMs that automatically solve Erdős problems aren't visualizing anything.

I could then manipulate the mental images to visualize how the proof would work. Then I would laboriously translate that visualization into the language of theorems and lemmas. It took hours.
I noticed that the math students didn't seem to have to work so hard.

Many years ago I took an advanced math course. I was a science student, and this course was well outside the kinds of math I was used to doing. Homework problems were exhausting, but mind-expanding. In order to construct a proof, I had to construct mental images corresponding to the abstractions.

I have a few trans friends, and knowing them has made my life richer. They are brave, fierce people whom I admire. It has been a privilege to learn about aspects of gender and sexuality that are outside my experience. Thank you for allowing me into your lives.

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Water which you will have to discard when you get to the security line that they aren't staffing because they're not competent to do so.

Yes, in fact each tile is composed of three crocheted pieces.

A Manhattan country and western band called Upton and The Broncs

19 identical, irregularly shaped crocheted tiles in 5 shades of blue. They have been stitched together with green yarn; you can't see the stitches, but there are loose green threads in a few places. The shapes have 13 sides.

The Einstein Hat (no relation to Albert) was discovered in 2023. It tiles the plane aperiodically, the first shape ever found to do so. (There are other aperiodic tilings, but all previous cases needed at least two distinct shapes.) I figured out how to crochet these tiles, and I started a blanket.

The second part is a pretty good description of Trump's strategy.

But in a nice way

When Norway became independent of Denmark in 1905, they decided that they needed a royal family—but there was no obvious heir to call upon. So they tried out several different kings, one month at a time. These were the "dræftkønigen," later anglicized to "draft kings."

Easter treat, or sex toy?

It's almost as though they lack empathy.

I think "creation science" may have been the granddaddy.

This, of course, is precisely why they want to use AI to make killing decisions. No sticky moral qualms, and an infinite loop of not-my-department "accountability." Mistakes will have been made.