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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 29m

Boss gets gunned, my folks become grime
This is why I cower, on company time

dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 7h

"In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you:
while you pretend to read with rapture
the canon of your law in Nature,
you want something quite the contrary,
you extraordinary
stage-players,
and self-deluders"

Love the rhymes here!

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 16h

cursing and getting angry because the stream freezes a bit

Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 16h

guy stuck at the mariners game watching it on his phone

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 17h

And anything not covered is subsumed within the symbology of the Bible!

Thus all you need to represent anything is a huge snake with maybe a small bibgle

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 18h

not sure why in this time of tragedy i should stop jerking off the clown half-way. no, the clown will have his full mast

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 18h

even the "I Survived Being Forced to Read 'I Survived' Book Series by Lauren Tarshis, 2025" book?

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 18h

Genuine Q: Surely the display of humanity is the actual cooking? Yes, having ChatGPT make the recipes is lazy, but if someone actually followed the recipe (modifying it if it asks for something physically impossible) and made an actual meal, there's nothing wrong or dehumanizing about that, no?

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 1d

Genuine question: how would you behave in the inevitable cloud of diverging beliefs on AI consciousness, then? Do you lean more towards treating them as conscious, or not?

I am very confused and would like to hear others' views.

Excerpt from chapter 12 of the draft of AI and Consciousness, by Eric Schwitzgebel.

Over time, we will reinterpret our uncertain science and philosophy through the new social lenses we construct – perhaps with the help of these AI systems themselves. We will prefer certain interpretations. Lovers of AI companions might yearn to see their partners as genuinely conscious. Exploiters of AI tools might prefer to regard their systems as nonconscious artifacts. More complex motivations and relationships will also emerge, including ones we cannot currently conceptualize.

Tenuous science will bend to these motivations. We will favor the theories that support our social preferences. Even when scientific consensus speaks clearly against our preferences, systems can be redesigned to make the evidence conveniently ambiguous. If the leading theories say, for example, that recurrence and self-representation are necessary for consciousness, designers who seek consciousness attribution can add enough recurrence and self-representation to escape easy refutation. Designers seeking instead to deny consciousness can ensure their systems differ enough in material and function to count as nonconscious on some reasonable theories, which then become their favorite theories.

The result: We will think we have solved the problem of AI consciousness, even if we have not.

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 1d

There was once a position above the pope, called the Poope. But then the cardinals who don't like it start calling it the Poop (very rude!) and so the final Poope (Poope Head) abolished his own position. Very sad.

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 1d

*woke economist, or 'woconomist'*: i think you'll find racism provides very low returns

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 1d

Some farmers are going to break and at their lowest moment will cry to the heavens, "why are the democrats doing this?"

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 1d

That liberal pope, I can't stand him, especially when he follows the teachings of that goddang criminal hippie *checks notes* Jesus Christ

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 2d

I'm trying to compare tsukumogami, which are household items that gains life if it remains unbroken for a century, with golems, soil that are shaped and given life by human magic and how that relates to two different conceptions of life/soul but oh god I'm not smart enough :(

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 2d

In a couple of days those signs will somehow aggregate and coagulate into a humanoid monster named Insignia that Batman has to fight

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 3d

If people could be normal about Al then Al wouldn't be Weird Al, would he?

dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 3d

hero(level 1): s-s-stop...
succubus(level 96): hahaha say goodbye to the world, her-
hero(level 255): ...huh?

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 3d

People stumbling upon Weedle's account a year from now: "why is this nurse posting so much about driving forklifts?"

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 5d

I guess the next question is, how do you strike back at the 'State of Texas' without harming the Texans in the process. My (naive) thought is that the best possible option is to replace the current state government or at least Abbott for this action against Illinois? What do you have in mind?

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 5d

Happy birthday, Nick (celebratory)! Hope your 36th year on this Earth brings you happiness and health. 🎉🎉

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 5d

Djinn...what if what the US need isn't some high-falutin return to civil values of the Abolitionist movement, but...just a couple hundred million frog suits?

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 5d

Any sufficiently later de-divergence is indistinguishable from convergence

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 5d

One of the most admirable aspects of a true intellectual: ability to admit mistakes. 👍🏾

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 5d

Genuine question, because while I got city pop videos from youtube this is the first time I came across one on social media: how would you, ae, define city pop? Thank you.

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dugongsugong.bsky.social @dugongsugong.bsky.social · 6d

You pick the tor you want, then the vendor allows you to take the tor home for a limited period. You insert the tor into the torreader and enjoy your tor. Return ('Re-tor', the tor kids called it) the tor once you're done within the time limit. Otherwise, you will be in torrears.

Tor renting!

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