@seasaltseen - Tumblr Blog

pinegren

preconditioning

pinegren

chinese room

jellyfish-honk

My take on Theseus crew members…

stainlesssteellocust

I wonder what watts is up to nowadays. Fascinating fellow. Became a marine biologist then decided he hated the ocean. Got fucked up by US border guards and is now banned from the country. Liveblogged his near-deadly infection with flesh eating bacteria. Had a cat named Banana.

“Utterly repellent…Horrific porn.”

notthatrelevant

so i absolutely hate llm and generative "ai," but i do really want to see a sci fi novel where someone very confidently assumes the entity they're speaking to is an llm or other generative "ai" but actually it's not only capable of thought but of feeling pissed off at being patroni-

hang on, wait. i'm thinking of the novel Blindsight by Peter Watts.

spoiler alert i guess.

exhaled-spirals

[Y]ou had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it’s a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke signals. It’s noble, it’s maybe the most noble thing a body can do but you can’t turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.

― Peter Watts, Blindsight

pinegren

I remembered I made these stickers for a little project for uni a while ago... In the end I never had the chance to print these </3 Maybe somebody else will