Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Read up there to remind yourself of the topic we're discussing. If you think that typing curse words into a chatbot input field is morally equivalent to verbally abusing a person, I can't help you. 110
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 06/10/2026But that's not because I might be hurting the dart board 000
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I neither know nor care. But I know the difference between kicking a ball and kicking a person, even if someone drew a face on the ball. 130
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 05/10/2026But! Software doesn't suffer. It's like saying we shouldn't make dart boards just to have something to throw darts at. 220
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If I left my car in neutral, and it rolls down the hill and kills someone, I can't throw up my hands and say "my car just went rogue! It's no one's fault!" 000
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I think it was Seinfeld, when asked why he wore a suit on stage when he doesn't have to, said: "Because I'm at work." 010
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If I were a professional writer (or really, anyone with dignity) the last thing I'd ever do was tell the world that I can't handle reading one of the most popular books in English literature, commonly read and discussed by high-schoolers. Just pretend you did and watch the movie instead? 100
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It shows the Greek gods the way the characters (and actual people) experienced them - not literal walking, talking deities but through (perceived) influences on nature, or as hallucinations not considered real. Was the shipwreck a coincidental storm that was easy to attribute to Poseidon? Probably! 030
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This is one of the more ridiculous arguments - I can put a speaker in a robot arm so it plays "there, there" while it pats you on the back, and I've invented Robot Empathy? A body pillow is Artificial Intimacy? Who really believes that "doing" is proof of "thinking"? 1213
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It's anyone's guess why "learn to settle, vote for us" didn't energize the base 070
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Similar, I think, to the 2015 Canadian election that first brought in J Trudeau as PM: An open field and centre-party collapse opened the door for the left-party, but votes coalesced around the "safe" centre-party to ensure that the right-party (in power, but increasingly unpalatable) didn't win. 010
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I'm encouraged by the idea that we can have nice things back once the bubble bursts 010
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 19/07/2026www.webcamgalore.com/webcam/Unite...webcamgalore.comWebcam Aberdeen: Union Street View - Webcam GaloreUnion Street View: Webcam (with image archive and timelapse) in Aberdeen, United Kingdom. Check yourself what's up in Aberdeen right now! 1152
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I want to know what happened before, such that they started testing Finnish dog show participants for cocaine 0132
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I'm not talking about giving Chayka credit. Just saying that the incoming players, on paper anyway, look like an improvement on the outgoing, and I won't blame future failure on lack of a Maccelli. Hildeby was the 4th-string G whether Woll or Bob is in; does league-avg from Bob require a "miracle"? 010
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Out: Robertson, Hildeby, Benoit, Carlo, (effectively) Jarnkrok, (quasi-effectively) Domi In: Paul, Duhaime, Bobrovsky, Sissons, MacEwen, Blueger, Roslovic, Raddysh, (effectively) McKenna Seems net positive, on balance? 200
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I'd put plenty of money on there being a line within 2% of "Hershey, I may not like you or how you're bringing chocolate to the people... But dammit, I respect you." 010
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I look forward to Modular Space-Waste Transport Hover-Vehicle Kid 060
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I guess there's also only two hands in your household to repeatedly complain online about how much work your partner is and the toll that it's taking on you, their beloved partner, which one would hope they would never read 120
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 09/06/2026You're right, I'm wrong, I should have been more generous to someone referring to "doing things for their partner, whom they choose to be with and presumably love" as "taking on a cost to maintain a system" that they will "never catch up on", which of course is the goal 110
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 09/06/2026www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/d...merriam-webster.comDefinition of DEBTsomething owed : obligation; a state of being under obligation to pay or repay someone or something in return for something received : a state of owing; the common-law action for the recovery of money... 110
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I'm with you - it's actually very sweet to refer to "doing things for your partner, whom you choose to be with and presumably love" as a "debt", a thing that is owed to you with expectation of repayment 150
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Can't imagine why, they made this only 40 years after He-Man's peak popularity 1150
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Just as long as their target reader (old, rich) gets to mutter "it's the children who are wrong." 010
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Plus: "It's not like there's some external "you" choosing which random path to take" is exactly the point. There IS an external personality choosing what path an AI takes: the programmer. Who is a person. Fully self-regulating, making decisions. Let us know when you pass 1st-year psychology class. 110
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 04/06/2026And you don't see a difference between neurons encoding probabilistically and software operating according to programming? Chiang makes the point that Claude isn't free to disobey Anthropic's coders. You don't need a grand theory of consciousness to know that part of it is making up one's own mind. 120
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 04/06/2026But you're trivializing human thought. As Chiang points out, conscious decision-making is based on a lifetime of experienced context, and isn't just probabilistic. Whether the LLM or the "system", it's following code that a person wrote, which can be changed, that doesn't permit actual consideration 140
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 21/05/2026When the response to the should-be-bulletproof argument of "who even cares about the outcome of kids' sporting events?" is "but they're competing for college scholarships", the real issue is basing access to higher education on athletic ability, not which kids get to play the sport. 020
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Sure, but handing Carney a majority has basically taken care of that as best we can. His actions on "true policy debate" stuff feel like squandering an opportunity to take advantage of sidelining PP for a few years, and telling folks to "shut up and go colour" for pointing this out isn't a good look 150
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Carney is definitely the lesser evil, but I don't see why that gets him a pass on objectively crappy policy, especially when his majority means we're going to have to put up with it for three solid years before the next election. 180
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I'm as glad as anyone that we dodged the dangerous idiocy that PP's Cons would've brought, but isn't the point of avoiding tyranny that we can call out our government? Especially now that the Cdn hard right is burying itself in insanity, why put up with "Liberals" that are centre-right corporatists? 0120
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The classic metaphor for beauty, a butterfly first having a prepared grave, then plummeting into it 0251
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 07/05/2026And if they're actually (North) American and choose to talk like that, all the more reason to avoid them 120
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 03/05/2026media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in an elevator and says `` not great , bob '' .ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in an elevator and says `` not great , bob '' . 030
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Oh god, he's going to make everyone call him "Dr. Ford", isn't he 110
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 30/04/2026"Four legs good, two legs... also good!" [Dance party to cover version of '90s pop rock song] 110
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 29/04/2026"But if we make someplace more pleasant to walk, then more people will come and walk, and THEN we're in REAL trouble!" 031
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 25/04/2026We can all think about separating the art from the artist, but there's a whole crowd out there who wants to separate the artist from the artist 001
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Patrick Stewart high-fives him: "Yeah - I'm thinking we're back!" 010
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 21/04/2026If we had won Game 7, we all know he'd be Kash Patel-ing it up in the Jays clubhouse 020
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 20/04/2026And now let's all wonder why Ford is so scrutinized for corruption and secret spending... What could he have done to deserve this? What could he have done... 1121
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 19/04/2026"Their displays of material wealth while you've been giving everything you can spare to the poor?" "Lol not that either" 010
