I’m American and my firm belief is that Americans don’t actually exist, and we’re all coming to realize that now. America is too big with too many huge, fractured cultures. My dream is New England secedes, which will never happen.

Yeah, I mostly listen to death metal so I’ll just see myself out.

If Madami invites Vanilla Ice to perform the Ninja Rap he will become the most important politician in American history.

That’s a good question but there’s a lot of mythos behind it that I’d have to write a paper for.

An easy example is that Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of Christianity and worshipped as God’s incarnation on Earth. Muslims and Jews categorically refute this in its entirety, meaning the only thing they share is the Abrahamic god.

That’s incorrect though. Catholics, Protestants, Methodists, etc are sects of Christianity, the broader body of the religion. Judaism and Islam are their own religions (albeit Abrahamic in origin), with Sunni/Shia being sects of Islam for example.

Yeah see, I wouldn’t do that. I would just be visibly irritated and dissociating about beating that person up.

But that would be fucking stupid and unjustifiably mean, so I have the responsible wherewithal to keep my jerk ass at home lmao

One of the terms of marrying my partner and buying a home together is we’d be pragmatic about responsibilities. I fucking hate paperwork and am bad with money, so the wife handles all the bills. She hates labor and we want to save money, so I perform basically 100% of the physical duties around the house, from construction projects to small shit like monthly deep cleans. It’s a bit old fashioned, but it works great for us.

One of my terms was that she did all of our grocery shopping (she wanted it anyways, she likes it). I can’t stand the lack of situational awareness from people in stores. It drives me fucking nuts.

This was really interesting. Thank you.

YOU’LL NEVER CATCH ME ALIVE ICE

I just want some skateboarders to head this way man. And some death metal folks to show me new music.

If this had come out a decade or two ago, we could have arranged international tournaments where veterans of WW2 played COD at like 90 years old against each other. It could have been an insensitive mess in regard to PTSD, and I’m not going anywhere with this as that just dawned on me while writing this, haha.

To be fair, I would argue most people, especially younger people, are totally unaware that news outlets pick up articles from other papers and organizations like Reuters.

Are you denying that it can be done faster now? And that even if it can’t, people with money believe it can and are funding it?

This is moving fast my dude. Look at how fast a term from Terminator made it into our daily lives.

I’d have to disagree that LLM are a dead end. They aren’t actual AI, but they can crunch data at a rate that will make them a bridge to actual AI. I guess I see this is a very dangerous and inevitable stepping-stone.

LLM will be able to crunch raw numbers to make actual AI possible IMHO.

Fair point, sorry - I didn’t word it well. My bad.

You seem to think something bad might happen, I think that stone is already moving and can’t be stopped.

I very respectfully but firmly disagree.

Human progression isn’t just advancing, it’s accelerating. If you were born in 1700 and died in 1775, basically everything at the time of your death was identical to the time of your birth.

If you were born in 1900 and died in 1975, you were born to horse-drawn carriages and died after seeing a man walk on the moon.

Now, even though our “AI” isn’t real AI and just language models, it can still crunch numbers historically faster. So the acceleration is objectively going to accelerate.

Me too man. I was perma-banned for calling the democratic party spineless billionaires for the expectation we’ll get two bullshit candidates again.