"The existence of talking machines—entities that can do many of the things that only we have ever been able to do—throws a lot of other things into question."

A cement mixer also does work that was unique to humans at one point. But we're not asking general contractors whether they're conscious.

better to not engage with it at all. It's poison and you don't want that in your lungs

Yeah the other day I read "emphasizing machines instead of how to run the machines." and I was like goddamnit Ray Bradbury you wrote this in the 40s 🙃

“Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness, like children making over pretty things, gadgets, helicopters, rockets; emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing machines instead of how to run the machines.” - Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

If being right matters, why would I ask a machine that (per OpenAI) mathematically going to "hallucinate" at least sometimes.

Why would I use a calculator if I was told it will be wrong 1 out of 1000 times???

That works! Ordered

anyone have like a pubilsher discount code? Always frustrating when there's a book I really want to snag but it's got textbook pricing...

that's a lightsaber

Is membership restricted by certain state laws on like labor organizing or something?

I think i'd just love as much clarity as you can provide on Iridonian Zabraks/Dathomirian Zabraks and how the whole society on Dathomir works. Like do Dathomiri women always give birth to a zabrak if it's a boy? It's very confusing.

how does one watch this movie?