post-silicon futurist, brutalist enjoyer
Absurdistan
Joined November 2011
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humans can't be replaced (yet):
machine intelligence is left-hemispheric (interpolation)
human intelligence incl. right-hemispheric (extrapolation)
artificial sweeteners aren't actually sweet like sugar
but what makes sugar sweet?
is ai consciousness the same problem?
butler in 1863 thought train engines would evolve into something more intelligent than humans...the singularity runs longer than people can stay liquid
one day, the girl at your date is going to ask you, "what music have you made" and if your ai music production skills suck, you're ngmi
Prediction: consciousness won't be found in any specific part of the body -- it's an emergent phenomenon
retrofuturism, definition:
the nostalgia of bygone eras where contemporary humans naively believed the "latest tech" would compound limitlessly to utopia or apocalypse, but neither outcome occurred
if and only if 'fate loves irony' then elone leaves this world either in an fsd-induced car accident or crashing into the moon
RECORD-BREAKING: the first full-disk Earth photo captured by a handheld digital DSLR camera. The first ever authentic human-eye spectral color, and the first-ever photograph of the full disk Earth at night.
