I’m all over the place as a writer: I've written about the Beatles, cannabis, the Second Amendment, and Indiana Jones (https://teapawt.net/t.co/KATqdp5X2Y).
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Barry Lyons retweeted
Dear people citing The Bible:
It’s a cool book with some wonderful passages but it also has ghost sex & giants & super babies & demons. It’s why we don’t make laws based on Game of Thrones, My Little Pony or Legend of Zelda.
Barry Lyons retweeted
Good morning and Happy Saturday to everyone who agrees that trump's pick of Stephen Miller as WH Chief of Staff means his brains are mush and he doesn't give a damn because Stephen Miller is just an evil, mean, miserable jackass.
2028 will be LIT.
Barry Lyons retweeted
This contentious interchange between the NY Times and @GinaHinojosaTX was truly amazing. Hinojosa offered one of the best explanations of populism I've ever seen. Her comments were a total rejection of Corporate Dems' neoliberal formula. Her Texas victory is a game changer.
Barry Lyons retweeted
There’s no way this poster will go down as well in America 🇺🇸
Might try it anyway 😂
Barry Lyons retweeted
The first five of the 10 Commandments are bullshit. Disrespecting the Christian God (or any god) or one's parents (if they haven't earned your respect) is not wrong, QED sin is just an invented disease to sell a snake oil cure.
Barry Lyons retweeted
One of these men is thinking in centuries - the other is thinking "is the camera still on me?”
Barry Lyons retweeted
AI had been the standard term since 1956.
'Superintelligence' had a very specific and powerful meaning when Nick Bostrom wrote about it in 2014 - an AI that vastly exceeds human cognitive abilities across all domains.
Conflating these terms is very confusing, counterproductive, historically uninformed, and insulting to the hundreds of thousands of people who have worked on AI over the last 70 years.
Barry Lyons retweeted
Trump is making decisions as president based on what will personally make him more money.
I’m old enough to remember when Fox News threw tantrums and Republicans called for endless hearings when Joe Biden received a $40,000 loan repayment check from his brother.
NEW: The Trump family’s sprawling business empire is increasingly intertwined with the AI boom, as the president resists calls to slow down development. w/ @ShiraOvide
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Barry Lyons retweeted
Claiming science is "limited to the physical" rescues nothing. Evidence is limited to what can leave evidence. Any entity—physical or otherwise—that changes or impinges on reality should produce consequences. Perpetual undetectability isn't transcendence—it's evidential failure.
Barry Lyons retweeted
The evidence is extremely weak. It's like saying there's evidence of vampires because a bunch of people claimed to see them 2000 years ago. Calling THAT evidence is a stretch and a half.
Barry Lyons retweeted
"it's out of context" is a weird defence and YEC can't play that card or they'd be smearing their own shit on the babble.
Saying the text is misrepresented is funny considering how every quote is divinely ordained . You'd think an omniscient deity would choose their words more carefully.
