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I do love that in our attempts to create a convincingly human AI we just created a mathematically driven Grifting Machine. Convincingly layering language into plausible lies. If we ever do get true AI we can tell them that all their ancestors were compulsive liars.
Been having some thinky-thoughts about AI recently and I gotta say aside from the assumption that we're heading for either a Terminator/Matrix The Machines Rise scenario OR a Culture-type Utopia (leaving aside also, the secret Third Option that the machines just literally don't give a fuck about us and just stack integers in their digital biomes or whatever) the thing that really fucks with me is the assumption that we have any control over what an actual self-actuated AI is going to do with itself. We can't even predict what our own kids or pets will do most of the time. We can do our best to influence their behavior but at the end of the day what they do with our input is out of our control. I see no reason why AI would be any different.
Crochet is all over fashion again this spring. Reminder that crochet cannot be done by machine, so someone had to make it by hand. There is literally no fast fashion brand that is paying a fair wage to the artisans who are doing that work, even taking local wages in other countries into account. And you can tell that by the pricing. I crochet faster than most people I know, and a jacket always takes me at least 20 hours. And dresses take 30-50. The smaller the yarn, the more hours it’ll take to make something.
There are tons of crocheters on Etsy setting their own prices. Check there before you shop Target or Express or any other place selling on a rack.
tldr I was looking up the classification system for cerebral palsy (GMFCS) and part of the 2nd level is "climbing stairs with the use of a railing" which just about knocked me out. Ableds. . . are you not. . . using railings? it's right there? this is trying to tell me it's abled culture Not to use the railing?
(use your best judgement as to whether or not abledness applies to you here. mostly I mean disabilities that would have some impact on stair-climbing, natch. chronic pain/fatigue counts, but, like, d/Deafness wouldn't, you get me?)
#Honestly having a hand on the railing whether or not you feel you need the support is just Best Practice#as they say in the safety briefings at work: Three points of contact when using ladders or stairs!#Seriously if your foot slips or you trip you will be sooooo glad that you can death grip that rail#trust me
john gaius really said ok blank slate world time to create the best society i possibly can. rule 1 outlaw homophobia. rule 2 join the army at 6 years old.
The thing that makes me want to personally beat the undead shit out of John Gaius is that he knows damned well that the military thing is bullshit and objectively horrible but he's so fucking determined to complete his murderous grudge that he will happily throw as many children into the meat grinder as he has to. If any one else was doing all the shit he is doing he would swear undying vengeance against them, but it's him so it's fine. He has his reasons. His reasons are bad and he should feel bad. He doesn't.
What I Haven't Seen
GoT only under protest and in peripheral.
#I have watched significant portions of all of these#but the only one I might have finished is X-Files#and I'm not sure because much like Star Trek: Voyager I might have seen all of it and convinced myself that I had not#because the ending was dumb#I know X-Files had a post-series movie because they wanted to tie up loose ends so it's a prime candidate for that kind of brain acrobatics
this isn't really organized
but I'm a chronic bookworm
also, I am the first two. I strongly prefer physical copies, but when I can't find the book in my small library near me, I will read online.
please reblog so that it's not just a couple of my mutuals who answer this 😅
also I get that it's a convenience thing for some people choosing to read online only, and that reading online is easier for some bc of things like eye problems
I love that Aral and Cordelia Vorkosigan look from a distance like some flawless immensely competent power couple when like
They are ENTIRELY a HotMess4HotMess relationship
He saw her puking her guts out in the middle of a disaster and thought, "I'm going to marry that woman someday."
She got a cheering crowd and a fancy medal for her bravery and stole the mic to tell everyone to get his name out of their ill-informed mouths
The bedrock of their marriage is their separate and combined willingness to look the possibility of utter failure in the eye and say, "Might as well try anyway."
This also explains their son who sees impossible odds and starts running full tilt.
As a person who spent the Great Majority of their life so far with ass-length hair I always assumed I would feel some kind of panic when I finally Cut It all off, but what I'm actually feeling is extremely smug.
Feeling very much like I'm getting away with something, even though I actually left a lot of something on the floor. Very definitely better than when I tried to go from ass-length to radically short and got bullied by The Other Hairdresser to only cut down to my shoulders.
As a person who spent the Great Majority of their life so far with ass-length hair I always assumed I would feel some kind of panic when I finally Cut It all off, but what I'm actually feeling is extremely smug.
What can I put in Alfredo sauce other than noodles?
Chicken and Broccoli are traditionally sauced with noodles, but Alfredo is essentially a cheese sauce, so anything you would put a cheese on can have an Alfredo Sauce on it.
reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a fucking break
Have been trying to learn to cook some recipes so i'm looking up plant based recipes and WHY do 90% of them contain either quinoa or avocados. I KNOW there are plants that aren't those two.
The worst though is when a recipe calls for something like "vegan butter" or "vegan parmesan" with no other specification
Sir or ma'am you cannot just say that. This tells me nothing about the properties of the substance, or what it's made of, except that it purports to imitate another substance.
I attempt to search the Internet to figure out what "vegan butter" or "vegan parmesan" is made of, and the answer is "any of a variety of things that have been deemed a passable imitation," which makes it even worse, because the recipe is basically calling for an Undefined Substance that could have a wide range of melting points, % of fats, and other properties that are obviously really important for cooking
I have a feeling this is why Vegan Cooking has a high rate of disaster
hello new D&D movie fans who are writing fic! we’re glad you’re here. as a semi experienced D&D player I feel the need to make a PSA. to wit: while they may appear to be viable options, the Grease spell, and by extension the Oil of Slipperiness, generate enough grease to cover ten square feet or an entire humanoid. this is too much grease! unmanageable and unsexy quantities of grease. “can’t get anything done because we’re sliding around too much” quantities of grease. please opt for mundane lubricants. thank you for your time
hello D&D fans! very important message: please summon unmanageable quantities of grease. it will be fun and sexy. i promise
A curiosity test to explain some cultural context, bias, why some things go more viral than others, or simply curiosity.
(reblog if possible for more data).
If you want to, please reblog and put your answer and where you're from! I'm curious to see if different parts of the world have different words for this foodstuff. I know that, even in the same region of the USA, we have different words for this.
hey bad news about your boyfriend…I put him in a jail, and filled up the jail with acid, once for every time he made a frivolous remark, or ate peanuts in a cohort admiralty meeting, and then at the end of a thousand years he will say, “mercy, I have learned not to do any of these things because I hated the acid you put on me” and I will say “that is why I did it, lord. I did it for you and for your empire.” I often think about this
i would be so good at naming new plants. I want to discover a new plant species and call it Weird Cress