Here’s another fun fact: A ringworld exerts zero net gravitational force on anyone inside of it. It’s one of the implications of shell theorem.

Yeah that’s actually hedonism

They have a pro-monarchy community (shera), which isn’t great.

Using the wrong engine cleaning solvent is a terrible sin and he’s being punished for his hubris

Well that’s how it works in Larry Niven’s Ringworld and also Halo. They just thought the earth was a ring.

Let’s ban marketing meat as food. You can sell dead animal tubes, but you can’t call them sausages.

I don’t support a ban on eating meat, but I support a ban on making it. Charge the supplier, not the user. Raising a pet so you can kill it is obviously animal abuse, it should have been made illegal a long time ago.

No, Bazzite is very hardware dependent. Good if you use the same hardware as the devs. If you don’t, it’ll make you want to go back to Windows.

Greta is 22, which makes her middle aged by Gazan standards

Ban it until the hard problem of consciousness is solved.

Cool! What about jackdaws?

If they designed a directory tree without knowing what a directory tree is, it sounds like they know what a directory tree is, they just don’t know the word, and you can’t explain the word properly.

I respect the people who say machines have consciousness, because at least they’re consistent. But you’re just like me, and won’t admit it.

Anyone can understand a directory tree. Not everyone is smart enough to explain it.

Consciousness comes from the soul, and souls are given to us by the gods. That’s why AI isn’t conscious.

Everyone’s is, fellow p-zombie

How they don’t understand that a LLM can’t be conscious is not surprising

It’s because they’re all atheists! They don’t know that souls are granted to humans by the gods.

Why are you booing them? They’re right.

Kidnapping implies isolated incidents and criminals working outside the government. Disappearing points out that the government is responsible, it’s harsher language

Kids in the 2010s: We are standing up to demand an end to the pollution so that we can have a future