We're on day 10 of the war, so 2 weeks is pretty close. People were initially claiming 4-5 weeks or longer. It still looks like the TACO is happening.

I don't think Bluesky is coming back. The people still posting here are mostly just automating copies of the posts they do on Twitter & LinkedIn. Bluesky stayed invite-only too long and missed its chance.

You start applying almost a year in advance, so this would be for the 2026-27 school year.

Searle doesn't seem to provide any definition of "understanding". He just asserts that any computations occurring outside the human brain must not be "understanding". The Chinese room thought experiment is just reasserting his belief without adding any evidence or logic.

Yes. Maybe there's a bunch of books that map each Chinese character to a 2,000 dimensional vector. Then there's millions more books full of linear algebra that you perform on all those vectors and matrices. That system seems like a form of intelligence that "understands" Chinese.

The thought experiment seems vague enough that doing trillions of matrix multiplication operations by hand should count. That would get you an LLM.
Of course, you could also reduce the human brain to an even larger set of math equations.

If the Chinese Room can process information that produces the same outputs as a human brain, then it makes no sense to claim it lacks "understanding". What's so special about the atoms in our brains that other atoms can't do?

I didn't know there was a book. The Netflix show is very popular with 4-year-olds.

That's how elections work. The party in power 10 years ago wanted an economy based on high-paid, high-skilled engineering jobs. The party in power now wants an economy based on low-paid, low-skilled fossil fuel extraction jobs.

Thermostatic public opinion is so funny, you can see Biden's presidency in the support for trade chart

The UK can rejoin the EU but the damage to America's credibility will last forever.

You were being extremely rude for no reason when I had never interacted with you before. That indicates you had some kind of emotional response. I guess the other possibility is you are just a very rude person who is unpleasant to interact with.
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Then why were you so angry at me for pointing out that Newsom was on podcasts with them?

What are you upset about?

Trump is such a gift to the Chinese Communist Party. He's torching 80 years of America's work building alliances in the Pacific & handing all the power to Xi Jinping.

I was apparently wrong about the details, but those details actually helps my argument. If you're angry about a liberal going on a right-wing podcast, you should be even angrier about a liberal inviting them on his podcast.

Are any of those podcasts willing to let them on? I don't think they would turn any down if they were invited.

Are there any examples of lib-brownism? There's a zillion examples of people on the far-left crossing over to the far-right, but I can't think of anyone on the center-left doing that.

Governor Newsom went on Kirk & Bannon's podcasts, and those people are much worse than Hanania. This politics of refusing to talk to anyone on the other side doesn't work.

I don't think he's associated with the movement. He just has a podcast that one of them went on. Pete Buttigieg goes on Fox News. We shouldn't be attacking everyone that talks to conservative media. We have to expand the tent.

There was a viral post a few days ago showing that like 90% of popular podcasts were right-wing. If you want to get your message out to a wider audience through podcasts, you can't limit yourself to the tiny number of left of center podcasts.

The screenshot is allegedly 7 years old. Did you take this 7 years ago and then decide to release it now?

"genetic inferiority" is a wild leap from a post that never mentioned genetics.

Can you give examples of people like that?
I don't think it's realistic to deplatform everyone with views like that, but I think someone who posted something like that would at least need to apologize & explain themselves before being accepted as a democratic strategist.

*Enraged by them
You're like the right-wing idiots on Twitter who get enraged by pronouns.
Also the people on both platforms that go after people's physical appearance. Those are also easy blocks.
Social media is only tolerable if you block the trolls & bigots

I got 6 blocks out of this so I'm happy. Can more of you people obsessed with avatars post here so I can block you. I want you out of my feed.

I like having the default avatar because people who obsess over avatars are always idiots that have nothing useful to say. It makes it easy to identify people to block.
It's similar to having pronouns on Twitter. The people who get engaged by by them are never worth talking to so they're easy blocks

You want Democrats to lose because you see politics as a form of self-expression rather than a way to influence governance in the country. Keep voting for Green party candidates that get 0.3% of the vote so you can enjoy feeling superior to people who live in the real world.

You can explain your position instead of just insulting people.

If you've defined "white supremacist" as anyone whose made an offensive comment in their life, then it includes the vast majority of Americans including most Black & Hispanic Americans.