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I’d use a combination of analogs, inspection and analysis to assess if something is capable of reasoning.

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AI was and is a garbage term referencing an evolving set of techniques.

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Yes, I also like “rollerball”

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

He can get back together with Kimberly.

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treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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What powers are granted to the states in the Constitution?? That’s not a dick question. You push the armed thugs doom and gloom, but can’t even come up with a rudimentary explanation.

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Building a massive LLM and expecting consciousness is like building a large scale ocean model and expecting to get wet.

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“Reason“ is what you might call advanced search in computer science. In this case, it’s a nondeterministic, stochastic system operating in a loop. Old prolog language would exhaustively search its database trying to complete a goal. It wasn’t reasoning, it’s goal oriented pattern matching.

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Actually, the insult is having to correct someone‘a fantastical doom when they don’t know how elections are run in the United States.

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earth science used machine learning to produce remote sensing maps and crop predictions in the 70s and 80s. We then built physical models to understand why they were predictive.

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Logistical and legal nonsense. How many polling sites across the US with how many armed thugs? Do the math amigo. That’s also blatantly illegal and states will charge and arrest. You need to take a us govt 101 class on separation of powers and elections.

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Why? States control voting, not Feds.

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They’re not all that safe yet apparently. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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Their ampthroparmorphism is wrong. These tools have no intent. They are unreliable. and openAI can’t assure correct operation even with safeguards. Imagine if it were an chainsaw or airplane.

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Anthropomorphizing software “acting on their own” When I throw a rock, it acts on its own and will continue its motion until a force stops it.

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Can hard wait for Giuliani & Johnson’s Four Seasons Total Landscaping & Lawns.

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There are no counter examples of other systems even close to what’s necessary for the computational complexity for consciousness as we experience it. Organic molecules appear universal and form naturally within the universe.

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Yes. My career, was biological, fundamental to applied computer science research. Those arguments link touched on some of what exobiology/SETI considered.

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Move fast and break things community finding out that reliability and safety matter when deploying an LLM. Since LLMs can’t be assured with known methods so push risk to user and caution it’s quickly evolving and may becoming conscious so not their responsibility.

Slime molds and rocks FWIW autonomy researchers would start a general talk saying a “thrown rock” is autonomous and then tick off all the criteria it meets. They then build out from that example the complexity separating a thrown rock from a Mars surface rover.

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Back to the claim they’re building guards for upcoming AI “Consciousness”. It’s nonsense, and what was described to safeguard a LLM’s behavior is called a run time monitor. Idiots needed to have one in the first place instead trying to instruct a non-deterministic application to monitor itself.

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Understanding complexity in the human brain

“Biological matter“ which includes waste like manure, isn’t the right place to start looking. Here is a summary description of the brain and its analogy, dynamic complexity underlying our consciousness. Not getting there with Nvidia GPUs. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Although the ultimate aim of neuroscientific enquiry is to gain an understanding of the brain and how its workings relate to the mind, the majority of current efforts are largely focused on small ques...

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A deterministic, certified run time monitor can oversee and set boundaries or throw an error on a nondeterministic, machine learning enabled component or LLM.

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Plainfield @plainfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Conscious“ Anthropomorphizing is ridiculous in any professional context NOT hard to tell bc the underlying hardware cannot. Biology is not boolean.

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Did an AI masters in 80s and have heard variations of this over the years. There is no way to assure these non deterministic systems are correct.

Plainfield @plainfield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Civilian Aero has strict standards such as DO178-C. Treated as engineering with mathematical and model based software development and verification/testing. www.rtca.org/do-178/

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Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification DO-178(), originally published in 1981, is the core document for defining both…

Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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LA is HOT. But does it have to be this hot? Did you know shade from a single tree can drop temps by 20° or more? Yet working-class neighborhoods like South LA, East LA, and the Valley get the least tree coverage and bear the brunt of extreme heat. Let's finally cool things down for everyone.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

so word on the trail is that 15 days for the whole JMT is “fast” and I am “insane”

A woman stands atop Mt Whitney’s summit at dawn, holding a sign that notes its altitude (14,505 ft)

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Plainfield @plainfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

True. Still while NASA‘s SpaceX contract demonstrating in space refueling is late, and over budget, under Biden NASA bought using a fixed cost contract. That means SpaceX should be paying for cost overruns like Boeing has for Starliner.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The most useless form of news is “CEO says.” Can this tool actually do what it says or is the company just trying to profit off fear?

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Plainfield @plainfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Allocation of Authority and Responsibility. People given technical responsibility, don’t have governance authority to make the decisions. Organizations understand the governing laws and directives and how to comply with them. A DOGE doesn’t.

Plainfield @plainfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes a 1960s 1970s 80s radio station would play a diverse set of music.

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Plainfield @plainfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

FWIW I didn’t know any country music growing up on AM and FM radio in Chicago 60s-70s.

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Plainfield @plainfield.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Evidence of Collusion and monopoly power

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Plainfield @plainfield.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What part of the Russian empire is natively Russian? Putin says all of it. I understand How he is wrong. We cant take that nationalism seriously Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union and gave up nuclear weapons for the promise of national assurance and we let them down.