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[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

if i was the joker id just get a restraining order on batman and superman whataere they gonna do? break the law? then theyre no better than me, a cold blooded murderer. and this would 100% work, because superheroe movies have the shittiest takes on ethics since fucking kant

[fuckyeahthegoodplace]

[the-frog-emoji-is-ugly-as-shit]

[maxofs2d]

so you know how deep learning & neural network “AI training” is like, “here’s a task, and by trying billions of times the computer will eventually find the best way to achieve that task” ?

Someone is compiling a document of every time an AI ended up achieving the programmed goal in unintended ways, instead of what was actually meant, and it’s an amazing read. (you can also submit your own examples)

Creatures bred for speed grow really tall and generate high velocities by falling over

When repairing a sorting program, genetic debugging algorithm GenProg made it output an empty list, which was considered a sorted list by the evaluation metric.

Evaluation metric: “the output of sort is in sorted order” Solution: “always output the empty set” 

Evolved player makes invalid moves far away in the board, causing opponent players to run out of memory and crash

Reward-shaping a soccer robot for touching the ball caused it to learn to get to the ball and vibrate touching it as fast as possible

RL agent that is allowed to modify its own body learns to have extremely long legs that allow it to fall forward and reach the goal.

[maxofs2d]

Just want to come back to this post and add this amazing example as well

[solidusskink]

Heres an AI that was supposed to learn how to walk using six legs. 

After many failed attempts. It decided it was easier to walk upside down

[falliblefabrial]

“In an artificial life simulation where survival required energy but giving birth had no energy cost, one species evolved a sedentary lifestyle that consisted mostly of mating in order to produce new children which could be eaten (or used as mates to produce more edible children).”

Yaeger, 1994

[kirianthedivorce]

Listen I would die for Jameela Jamil

[kirianthedivorce]

I just… love her… so much we don’t deserve her

[kirianthedivorce]

When you’ve got low self esteem and are having a bad day

[1forher-deactivated20220505]

[eternalsalsa]

[chroniczombiegf-archive-deactiv]

ah, yes,,, my 3 alignments,,,,

[ottertedlogan]

adhd king

[kropotkhristian-deactivated2019]

I can’t believe this needs to be said, but the rich are not doing you a service by employing you. They require you. Everything they have is contingent on the fact that you work for them and do what they say. Without you, the rich have literally nothing. Workers have power over the entire economy.

It is actually workers doing a major service to their employers by not unionizing and not starting a revolution, since literally the only thing workers need to do to grind the entire economy to a halt is put their hands behind their back and stop working. That is it. Workers could crash the entire machine in one moment if they wanted.

Stop calling them “job creators.” They aren’t. They literally require you. But you dont require them. You are wealth creators. And you have the power to take it back whenever you want. You just have to organize.

[judiciousimprecation]

One of the most useful insights my father ever gave me was that “your employer owes you money”. At any given moment, you have done work that your employer has not yet written you a check for. They owe you money, and you owe them nothing

[dakotaaaa]

some thoughts on self objectification 

[theresagooseinthemainframe]

Holy mother of hell

[closet-keys]

this is a huge reason why lesbians can go years just not figuring out that they aren’t attracted to men. when your whole understanding of attraction is “objectifying yourself to the point that you understand intimacy as a performance to be the perfect sexual object for a man” then the question of who and what you desire isn’t even being asked- let alone answered. 

[decalexas]

 a few years back, i read “cinderella ate my daughter" by peggy orenstein (which is an interesting sort of crash course on the ways in which gender roles are really impressed on children through media, capitalism, toys, etc.). I read it like 5 years ago so if I get anything wrong, forgive me; I don’t own the book so I can’t consult it.

but one thing that really stuck with me was a part where the author speaks with (I believe) a child psychologist, and they talk about sexuality of teenage girls. one thing the psychologist mentions is that, when talking about sex, sexual attraction, etc, girls will frame it in terms of how they look, rather than how they feel when asked about their feelings (emotional and physical): “I feel like I look sexy, I look hot, etc,”. from the onset of experiencing sexuality, etc (which really means, going back to childhood, because girls are really bombarded by objectification from the time they’re tiny), girls are already alienated from their own bodies and sense of what feels good, right, or okay.

 no wonder the process of realizing you’re a lesbian can be so difficult; it’s also no wonder that we have so many women who look back and say it took them years to realize that what happened to them was sexual assault, or who look back and say that they weren’t happy or satisfied in relationships but stayed in them anyway, or that women are so constantly critical of their appearances in everything they do. all of it comes down to the fact that women are so alienated from their own bodies, feelings, and experiences. monitoring how you look constantly really creates such a distance between you and your actual life, it takes you out of the moment, it makes it difficult to judge your actual feelings, or create boundaries, or bond genuinely with others, or have positive experiences free of self-criticism. 

[toad-tit]

If we’re walking together and i see moss, I’m touching it and you can’t stop me

[avianawareness]

(via x)

[earthdad]

this is the best news i’ve heard in ages

[veryhappyvegan]

Please please share if you can! My good friend and fellow vegan’s beloved cat Boosa is in need of surgery and anything you can spare is so grately appreciated!

Click here to support Boosa’s surgery fundraiser organized by Caroline Lupardo

I know this is a lot to ask but my best friend’s beloved cat companion, Boosa, is in need of surgery to remove an abscess tooth that is sw

[saiasus]

[thethingsifindfunny]

I think I just wet the bed from laughing

[airwar]

[officialaudreykitching-deactiva]

‪Trying to explain yourself to lower vibrational people and getting absolutely nowhere is something everyone on the ascension path eventually experiences. Release it. They can’t hear your words, the frequency gap is to large and that’s ok. Save your energy for those in alignment.‬

[techtonicactivity]

#me after being kicked out of target for having my tiddies out

[yourbigsisnissi]

The more research I’ve done

The more I’m glad I’ve never been on hormonal birth control and the more I have no desire to ever be

[lyrsui]

Agreed. With all the side effects, birth control sounds like a nightmare and I say all the time that I never want to put my body through that. I also hope to never date anyone who would expect that of me or, conversely, assuming I married a man, that would just impregnate me recklessly. Men do that, too, and it’s something I fear just as much as a partner insisting that I have to be on it.

[yourbigsisnissi]

The idea of being with any person who thinks they can tell me how to regulate my body would be preposterous

That said, birth control is so overly prescribed for everything from acne to mood changes to migraines. Doctors have been treating the (cis) female body like a disease that needs to be cured. Over prescribed and the “side effects” are treated as an afterthought instead of talking about how those effects are just the result of having something that disrupts hormones

It’s a mess