WTF-Beta

I’m in Orlando for a conference. Hot AF here.

They’re trying to save pixels so they avoided ‘ancient’.

I disagree that intelligence arises from consciousness. An entity could (in theory) have one and not the other. Consciousness is subjective experience, in Nagel’s famous formulation, what it ‘is like’ to be something. Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, model the world, adapt, plan, reason, etc.

Also, to give Chalmers his due, the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ would prevent us from ever knowing if a machine were to develop consciousness.

It’s not obvious the court is broken. Unless broken means ‘occasionally issues rulings I disagree with’. I think a colorable argument could be made that it’s the most functional branch we have.

Court packing to me seems like an especially bad idea at a game theoretic level. What’s to stop the other party from raising it to 18 people next time they have power? Then 25 after that?

The thread title is making fun of his saying do it ‘now’. Does he really want the current president to have 4 more scotus picks?

Now?

Like, NOW?

More generally, it’s sad to see this. I liked him as a representative. As a presidential wannabe, not so much.

Yay!!!!

I love that Debussy piece.

There’s a fabulous Stephen Hough master class on that piece on YouTube. Totally worth watching.

My sister, a big royals fan, sent me this.

@Daniel said:

The idea of "an influencer" is a really strange, foreign idea to me.

How would you even define it?

I'm showing my age.

Remember ‘people who are famous for being famous’? It’s the social media version of that, but the fame is with a very specific sub-culture.

Christopher Hitchens used to say “to whom would you give the power to decide what you’re not allowed to read?”

As 89 said next door, I prefer upvote/downvote, community notes, or some way to crowd-source commentary rather than outright censorship.

#notallbillionairres

@Axtremus said:

Fitness gadget makers haven't figure out how to distinguish human gaits from the usual house pet gaits?

What makes you say that? The collar seems to be tracking the dogs steps. I’m sure the pattern in the movement data is pretty easy to spot

This is ridiculous. Friend of mine that I worked with years ago has some fitness tracking collar for his golden retriever. And it apparently connects to Strava.

Siena (spelled sienna in older English texts) is a town in Tuscany. That’s where they hold the famous Palio.

That’s the origin of the name of the color - a pigment found in the soil there. Odd they froze the spelling in time for the color, whereas for the city we’ve since dropped the extraneous ‘n’.

I’ve eaten two hard boiled eggs as part of my breakfast for most of my adult life.