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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

shoulda whipped this out and said you were on official business

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I present to you the dumbest chess match ever

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"Does not hesitate to get gangsta when necessary"

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Have you tried saying this in Finnish?

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Japan once again beating us in the public transit department

Rohan looking at a room in a tunnel that one JoJo stand made

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Other people: My phone background is a cross with my favorite verse from scripture Me: oh ha ha yeah same

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

White House lawn looking like this scene from Inland Empire any time Trump looks out the window

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Why are streaming services like this?

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I look at this picture and think "these are two straight men"

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

AI video descriptions on Instagram are getting fucking wild

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

you forgot to use your cipher, queen

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

We're so close to making this exchange happen unironically. Just a few more years of brainrot and we'll be lucky to recognize letters

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I don't have the patience to actually try to sway you, but I legitimately hope that this summary of the Chinese room experiment clears things up

Suppose that artificial intelligence research has succeeded in programming a computer to behave as if it understands Chinese. The machine accepts Chinese characters as input, carries out each instruction of the program step by step, and then produces Chinese characters as output. The machine does this so perfectly that no one can tell that they are communicating with a machine and not a hidden Chinese speaker.

The questions at issue are these: does the machine actually understand the conversation, or is it just simulating the ability to understand the conversation? Does the machine have a mind in exactly the same sense that people do, or is it just acting as if it had a mind?

Now suppose that Searle is in a room with an English version of the program, along with sufficient pencils, paper, erasers and filing cabinets. Chinese characters are slipped in under the door, and he follows the program step-by-step, which eventually instructs him to slide other Chinese characters back out under the door. If the computer had passed the Turing test this way, it follows that Searle would do so as well, simply by running the program by hand.

Searle can see no essential difference between the roles of the computer and himself in the experiment. Each simply follows a program, step-by-step, producing behavior that makes them appear to understand. However, Searle would not be able to understand the conversation. Therefore, he argues, it follows that the computer would not be able to understand the conversation either.

Searle argues that, without "understanding" (or "intentionality"), we cannot describe what the machine is doing as "thinking" and, since it does not think, it does not have a "mind" in the normal sense of the word. Therefore, he concludes that the strong AI hypothesis is false: a computer running a program that simulates a mind would not have a mind in the same sense that human beings have a mind.

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Didn't think I'd ever say this, but maybe PKD didn't make The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch bleak enough

"Can’t you help me?” Barney said. “I’ve got to get her back.”

“You don’t understand,” the Palmer Eldritches all said, collectively shaking
their heads; it was the same motion that Leo had just now made, and the same
firm no. “As was pointed out to you: since this is your future you’re already
established here. So there’s no place for you; that’s a matter of simple logic.
Who’m I supposed to snare Emily for? You? Or the legitimate Barney
Mayerson who lived naturally up to this time? And don’t think he hasn’t tried
to get Emily back. Don’t you suppose–and obviously you haven’t–that as the
Hnatts split up he made his move? I did what I could for him, then; it was
quite a few months ago, just after Richard Hnatt was shipped to Mars, kicking
and protesting the whole way. Personally I don’t blame Hnatt; it was a dirty
deal, all engineered by Leo, of course. And look at yourself.” The six Palmer
Eldritches gestured contemptuously. “You’re a phantasm, as Leo said; I can
see through you, literally. I’ll tell you in more accurate terminology what you
are.” From the six the calm, dispassionate statement came, then. “You’re a
ghost.”

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

there's a reason this isn't a video

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

what i mean when i say i'm hanging in there

car literally held together with duct tape

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

"Women naturally want to do womanly things because God created us with those womanly desires in our hearts"

caravaggio's depiction of judith beheading holofernes from da bible

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I wanna know what kinda person Tinder pairs me with for having this painting saved on my phone

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

It's even worse when you see the whole thing. Fucking wild that we're the country pointing fingers at nations with "cults of personality"

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Lmao speaking of missing an easy goal, check out this insanity as if anarchist theory just espousing Doing What You Want And Nobody Can Tell You Not To rather than being an anti-hierarchical to community

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Elegant Trash @draculafactory.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Getting a tramp stamp of that Goya painting Witches' Sabbath

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