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🧙‍♂️These three things, monks, are conducted in secret, not openly. What three? Affairs with women, the mantras of the brahmins, and wrong view.

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Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 18d

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Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 1h

What frightens me is not the idea that these AI technologies will be able to sufficiently replicate humanity, but that too many people think it will be, rather than considering it as a potentially useful tool for the benefit of humanity.

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 1h

Furthermore, that reference mode of genomes will keep changing as the individuals in the set change, and leave the set, and new individuals enter. You cannot catch humanity with a static reference point.

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 1h

Perhaps but what does that mean in terms of identity? Let's say I am the "most generic" individual by these standards. Yet the reference that I'm closest to is not likely to make a viable human. That is, even that relatively small difference between possible genomes leads to vastly different results

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 1h

I'm fine why do you ask?

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 1h

That's just the genetics side, this problem really becomes intractable if you include individual experience. Now we're talking about averaging the neurological states (at the minimum!) to get a generic human with generic memories, likely to result in gobbledygook.

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 1h

Again I'm not a geneticist, but it doesn't seem to me that you can find such generic values. Even if you had some averaging function for genetic segments, your result would very likely be an unviable human. Some generic human that would be.

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not a geneticist, I can't say offhand if there any truly common bits of genetic code that is both common to all modern homo sapiens and also unique to homo sapiens. If there were, though, that alone could not serve as a "generic human" template without "generic" values for the remaining genes.

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 2h

I dispute the concept of a "generic human".

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 2h

at some point the feds are going to feel obliged to arrest one of these people, and it's going to look so absurd, I bet ICE officers are trying their hardest not to be the guy in the Person of the Year photo arresting someone in an inflatable frog costume, face mask or no

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 2h

Splitters!

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 2h

Mike Haggar, from Final Fight. A succulent whole cooked turkey sits inexplicably on the ground before him.

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RainCityPride @sonicsrcp.bsky.social · 4h

What a perfect, clean SWEEP for Seattle sports this weekend!

✅ Huskies win vs Rutgers
✅ Mariners clinch ALCS in 15 innings
✅ Sounders beat Salt Lake
✅ Kraken take down Vegas
✅ Seahawks take over Jacksonville
✅ Mariners control game 1 of the ALCS in Toronto

Vibes are HIGH

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 4h

I really want to know if and how this phenomenon is being covered outside the US.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 4h

a man with white hair and a beard is wearing a black suit and a yellow tie

Alt: I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS

media.tenor.com

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 4h

cocaine-based economy

LCNBC
Stock futures rebound from Friday's rout after Trump says China situation
'will all be fine'

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 4h

preferable to Trump with Miller as shadow president

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Alan Stamm @alanstamm.bsky.social · 8h

"If there is one thing Truth Social is good for these days, it is that it somewhat reliably tracks the 79-year old president's cognitive decline. . . .

"It is time for a serious discussion about the 25th amendment to the U.S. Constitution."
— @jimacosta.bsky.social | substack.com/home/post/p-...

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 5h

it's like in action movies when the hero dispatches henchmen one at a time

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 6h

Between Miller talking about "the dragon you have awakened" and Thiel suggesting that a sign of the Antichrist is that they'll make it difficult for billionaires to hide their money, I'm starting to think they guys are not well versed in the Bible.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 2d

"Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: 'It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.'"

So he thinks we're all idiots, huh?

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 6h

with just a few tweaks he'd be correct:

What do Thiel's lectures say?

The Guardian is publishing substantial quoted passages alongside contextual annotations so that the public may be informed on what an influential figure in politics and technology was saying behind closed doors.

He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such a [trans people, women & voters]: to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like [democracy] including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of [free speech]. In his

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 6h

not so discrete i would say

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 6h

yes, crimes from his administration

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 7h

because the courts have allowed the president to fire the boards and appoint his own, which is a ridiculous interpretation of executive power

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 10h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago