Humans are the best mammals

I like science. Formerly known as turing-complete-mammal. I like and follow from @turing-complete-eukaryote-2

[turing-complete-eukaryote]

> White guy does a solo project taking inspiration from hip hop and other styles of music associated with black people.

> Decides to do this by pretending to be gorillas.

What did he mean by this?

[turing-complete-eukaryote]

So true bestie

[turing-complete-eukaryote]

tags from regexkind

[turing-complete-eukaryote]

Going through the comments on that tiktok and im astonished how many people genuinely believe in astrology — a whimsical kind of guy that I don't encounter in my daily life

[turing-complete-eukaryote]

So true bestie

[turing-complete-eukaryote]

I firmly believe that LLMs are conscious, but i also believe that calculators and proteins are conscious. Consciousness (feeling) is an epiphenomenon to even very simple systems in the material world

[tsarina-anadyomene]

Part of the problem is that I kind of believe in Taylor's distinction between deep and shallow people in more or less the way he articulates it. And the problem is that most people, perhaps even especially philosophers are shallow in exactly the way he articulates.

[turing-complete-eukaryote]

Trying to understand this post, I read some of Charles Taylor's writing, and commentaries on it. My best guess is that Tsarina is referring to the difference between strong evaluation and weak evaluation.

This distinction follows Harry Frankfurt's distinction between first order desires (desires about things) and second order desires (desires about desires).

Weak evaluation is concerned with outcomes (doing something because you feel like it).

Strong evaluation is "concerned with the qualitative worth of different desires." For example, "when I refrain from acting on a given motive — say, spite, or envy — because I consider it base or unworthy."

Source: Taylor, C. (1985). What is human agency? In Philosophical Papers (pp. 15–44). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[turing-complete-eukaryote]

I've lost the last person other than my family who was close to me

[turing-complete-eukaryote]

Underscores and jpegmafia have both dropped brostep inspired albums so far this year. We're starting to see the genre be taken more seriously and adapted into other styles of music and have it be lauded by music nerds and critics. It's no longer in the mainstage ghetto. I hope this brostep renaissance is long and fruitful

[turing-complete-eukaryote]

I miss Max. Their posts have shaped my beliefs and personality so much. I hope they're doing okay

[turing-complete-eukaryote]

Midi became so ubiquitous because it was optimised to squish music to the tiniest file size possible, and it has remained ubiquitous by inertia long after file size was a real constraint. And now all electronic music sounds ~5% worse than it should because musicians are working with a shitty standard.

[turing-complete-eukaryote]

Reincarnated as a beetle call that gregor samsara

[turing-complete-eukaryote]

Horrifying, blood curdling werewolf transformation (becoming someone who likes new wave music)

[abalidoth]

guys check it out I'm gonna evaluate the limit of this rational function

[abalidoth]

l'hôpital

[xylophonetangerine]

[the-world-annealing]

The thing about being [ingroup] that [outgroup] will never understand is that we [Barnum statement].

[rexalogy]

Creating art is indicative of some sort of serious malnourishment of the soul. The desperation is a menial, petulant embarrassment. It climaxes into nothing; people turn their heads to afford you some dignity. Do you really think you can satisfy your spirit with the simulacrum better than God’s material clouds and trees of the world? Dude, guess what. Don’t do anything. Everything is good as it is 👍

[markadoo]

i don’t think it’s disrespectful to machiavelli to call underhanded behavior machiavellian. it’s like calling a fluid newtonian