I wonder if Corbyn’s Labour run had happened today if things might have gone differently. I think a lot of people have now seen how nonsensically and indiscriminately the “antisemitic” label gets used, and that the tactic is getting much less effective.
the-podcast guy recently linked this essay, its old, but i don’t think its significantly wrong (despite gpt evangelists) also read weizenbaum, libs, for the other side of the coin
You are not just a record of memories. You are also your home, your friends and family, what you ate for breakfast, how much sleep you got, how much exercise you’re getting on a regular basis, your general pain and comfort levels, all sorts of things that exist outside of your brain. Your brain is not you.
Embodied cognition. I don’t see this as implying that what we’re doing isn’t computation (or information processing) in some sense. It’s just that the way we’re doing it is deeply, deeply different from how even neural networks instantiated on digital computers do it (among other things, our information processing is smeared out across the environment). That doesn’t make it not computation in the same way that not having a cover and a mass in grams makes a PDF copy of Moby Dick not a book. There are functional, abstract similarities between PDFs and physical books that make them the same “kinds of things” in certain senses, but very different kinds of things in other senses.
Whether they’re going to count as relevantly similar depends on which bundles of features you think are important or worth tracking, which in turn depends on what kinds of predictions you want to make or what you want to do. The fight about whether brains are “really” computers or not obscures the deeply value-laden and perspectival nature of a judgement like that. The danger doesn’t lie in adopting the metaphor, but rather in failing to recognize it as a metaphor–or, to put it another way, in uncritically accepting the tech-bro framing of only those features that our brains have in common with digital computers as being things worth tracking, with the rest being “incidental.”
After all, when a calculator computes the answer to a math problem the physical structure of the calculator doesn’t change
What counts as “physical structure?” I can make an adding machine out of wood and steel balls that computes the answer to math problems by shuffling levers and balls around. A digital computer calculates the answer by changing voltages in a complicated set of circuits (and maybe flipping some little magnetic bits of stuff if it has a hard drive). Brains do it by (among other things) changing connections between neurons and the allocation of chemicals. Those are all physical changes. Are they relevantly similar physical changes? Again, that depends deeply on what you think is important enough to be worth tracking and what can be abstracted away, which is a value judgement. One of the Big Lies of tech bro narrative is that science is somehow value free. It isn’t. The choice of model, the choice of what to model, and the choice of what predictive projects we think are worth pursuing are all deeply evaluative choices.
Like I know this isn’t a shock to anyone. But it’s a super surprise to me. So since 2011 I was really busy with various educational or work stuff, and never had time to log in. When I did log in to post something random for family to see, I had that Fluffbusters extension that cuts out the extra shit that Meta adds to your...
It’s absolutely unusable. Early Facebook’s niche was actually really good and cool too: a service built around developing and maintaining the sort of relatively weak IRL social connections that would usually just decay. Like, something to keep up with and stay connected to your high school friends or college roommates or friendly acquaintance you met at the gym was actually really neat. A lot of people got a ton of value over that, and I think it did genuinely improve the world in some ways early on. But that shit isn’t profitable, so it couldn’t last.
Politicians are terrified of the protests, but they are even more terrified by the prospect that the protests could continue past the end of the school year, spilling over the bounds of the campus and into a long, hot, summer. It is the responsibility of anyone trying to stop this genocide to ensure that their nightmare becomes...
CUNY was originally established as a free university aimed at (for the time) democratizing access to higher education. They had no tuition at all until 1975, and very very low tuition–especially for NYC residents–until fairly recently. It only started charging a bunch of money when all universities started getting taken over by financial vampires in the 2000s.
He was controversial, but he was in my opinion one of the best all-around living philosophers. He was enormously influential on my own thinking, as well as kind and patient every time I met him. Enormously influential, and a big loss to the discipline....
Imagine if this was the blitzkrieg, and instead of going to bomb shelters people were just like “I’m sick of hearing about these bombings, I’m just going to pretend they’re not happening and leave it up to fate.” And then the bomb shelters are all closed and even the people who still wanted to take shelter are left to fend for themselves.
And the people who try to take shelter or talk about all the bombings are told that they should seek therapy for their uncontrolled and unreasonable anxiety.
If viewers don’t really see him having fun, that’s by design. Donaldson has outright said he sees “personality” as a limitation for growth, once noting in a podcast that hinging your content on who you are as a person means risking not being liked. And if someone doesn’t like a creator as a person, they may not give...
1000% could see Biden winning and then pardoning Trump / lobbying state AGs to drop charges in order to “heal the nation.” Libs would turn on a dime and eat it up.
While this is extremely based, remember that Ireland is also one of the world’s largest “flag of convenience” nations that transnational corporations use to dodge tax liability in their home countries (Google is nominally headquartered there, if I recall correctly). They actively present themselves that way, and actively recruit people looking to hide their ill-gotten capital from the world. We 100% need to be loudly in support of their actions on Palestine, but it should still be critical support and calling them “the only good white country” is maybe going a little too far.
IT'S OFFICIAL: Jeremy Corbyn WILL Stand as Independent in General Election (youtu.be)
long-corbyn lets-fucking-go
Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)
the-podcast guy recently linked this essay, its old, but i don’t think its significantly wrong (despite gpt evangelists) also read weizenbaum, libs, for the other side of the coin
Holy feck Facebook got really bad
Like I know this isn’t a shock to anyone. But it’s a super surprise to me. So since 2011 I was really busy with various educational or work stuff, and never had time to log in. When I did log in to post something random for family to see, I had that Fluffbusters extension that cuts out the extra shit that Meta adds to your...
Why the State Can't Compromise with the Gaza Solidarity Movement (crimethinc.com)
Politicians are terrified of the protests, but they are even more terrified by the prospect that the protests could continue past the end of the school year, spilling over the bounds of the campus and into a long, hot, summer. It is the responsibility of anyone trying to stop this genocide to ensure that their nightmare becomes...
Big things happening in New York right now. (hexbear.net)
"Four more years. Pause." (twitter.com)
If you tried to put this in a satire, people would think it was too much.
lol (hexbear.net)
Dan Dennett has died (dailynous.com)
He was controversial, but he was in my opinion one of the best all-around living philosophers. He was enormously influential on my own thinking, as well as kind and patient every time I met him. Enormously influential, and a big loss to the discipline....
I find it scary how nobody seems to care about the COVID deaths [CW: Trauma, mass death, cruelty]
Whenever people and the mainstream media talk about “The trauma of COVID” they always mean the lockdowns and not the… you know… millions of deaths....
"Let them eat cake" and other bangers from disgraced decaying fail'mpires?
Help find similar quotes? related: Voters upset choosing between the two US oligarch partys “get over yourselves” said Hillary....
The West's greatest weakness is its unwillingness to nuke the world (hexbear.net)
Also, the US showed nothing but kindness to their enemies. amerikkka-clap...
Elon: "If worrying about the depraved cannibal hordes of migrants makes me a Nazi, well then I guess I'm a Nazi" (hexbear.net)
jesus-christ...
Mr. Beast sucks but also apparently lives in a hell of his own making (www.polygon.com)
If viewers don’t really see him having fun, that’s by design. Donaldson has outright said he sees “personality” as a limitation for growth, once noting in a podcast that hinging your content on who you are as a person means risking not being liked. And if someone doesn’t like a creator as a person, they may not give...
Just the second richest guy in the world reposting more Nazi memes (hexbear.net)
Concerning
vote for 100% hitler or else his friend 100% hitler will win (hexbear.net)
hahaha i hate this shit so bad
Interesting (hexbear.net)
Curious.
Smartest and least racist RFK Jr. supporter (hexbear.net)
Link
Great job (hexbear.net)
A super-lib explains how the dems couldn't codify Roe for FIFTY fucking years. (hexbear.net)
Tweet
Ireland announces €20 million to UNRWA and urges others to do the same. (hexbear.net)
The whole statement is great btw....