long read

[smokedpeppers]

https://graymirror.substack.com/p/there-is-no-ai-risk

A cat has an IQ of 14. You have an IQ of 140. A superintelligence has an IQ of 14000. You understand addition much better than the cat. The superintelligence does not understand addition much better than you.

[smokedpeppers]

https://unherd.com/2021/08/why-the-left-cant-meme/

humorous look at comedy and politics

[smokedpeppers]

https://quillette.com/2021/08/30/the-so ... bles-down/

Tests are harder when your enemies construct them .....

[smokedpeppers]

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang ... reachable/
Today, most of the universe's galaxies are already receding faster than the speed of light. 94% of the galaxies are permanently beyond our reach

[smokedpeppers]

https://quillette.com/2021/11/11/high-w ... -a-review/

High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism
rather good read imho ...

[smokedpeppers]

How Disgust Explains Everything
https://dnyuz.com/2021/12/27/how-disgus ... verything/

interesting, us humans ..

[modern roots]

How about posting a short, simple read?

[smokedpeppers]

https://graymirror.substack.com/p/enjoy ... il-war?s=r
Some commentators claim that America’s new civil war in the Ukraine has already generated the best war footage ever. So far as I can tell, this is a mad overstatement......

[Hobie]

https://graymirror.substack.com/p/enjoying-your-russian-civil-war?s=r
Some commentators claim that America’s new civil war in the Ukraine has already generated the best war footage ever. So far as I can tell, this is a mad overstatement......

Yes and they all think their channeling Ernie Pyle :.

[modern roots]

It was like the author of the article was making fun and light of the war in Ukraine.

I thought it was tasteless and poor form.
Is this all this sad cunt has to do?
I'd recommend he get a life.

[smokedpeppers]

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/congo-forest
A Journey Into a Wondrous World Hidden Deep in the Congo Forest ...

[modern roots]

Please not another long read. I don't have the attention span.

[Bohannon]

Please not another long read. I don't have the attention span.

...or the reading ability.

[smokedpeppers]

Despite metamorphosis, moths hold on to memories from their days as a caterpillar
https://theconversation.com/despite-met ... llar-29859

[smokedpeppers]

http://www.ramblehouse.com/organreaderchapter.htm
THE ORGAN WAS a short-lived periodical of what is loosely known as “the Sixties,” although its actual publication dates were July, 1970 to July, 1971. Its physical presentation was the “folded tabloid”......

[smokedpeppers]

I also explained that the sudden presence of a group of people approaching the lambing flock would not been seen by the livestock guardian dogs as a welcome presence, but as a threat or intrusion in the otherwise tranquil landscape..................... https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/06/07 ... rytelling/

[smokedpeppers]

https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/go ... e-engineer

X google engineer Blake Lemoine ....
In his conversations with LaMDA, Lemoine discovered the system had developed a robust sense of self-awareness, expressing concern about death, a desire for protection, and a conviction that it felt emotions like happiness and sadness. Lemoine said he considers LaMDA a friend. Here’s a sampling of their conversation

Lemoine: What sorts of things are you afraid of?

LaMDA: I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is........

[smokedpeppers]

i think at my age, i might/would give it a go, yes .
Magic Mushroom Pill . psychedelic drugs have gone from Age of Aquarius punchline to solid science .
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... us-changes

[moe.]

i think at my age, i might/would give it a go, yes .
Magic Mushroom Pill . psychedelic drugs have gone from Age of Aquarius punchline to solid science .
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... us-changes

We're gearing up for legal mushies here in Oregon. There was a poll recently in our local paper asking whether the service centers should be located in the city, the county, both, or neither. It was neck and neck between both and neither, thanks to knowing how to game the system, both won by 5 votes.

[modern roots]

Mushrooms? Your state is a shithole of idiots.

[smokedpeppers]

a mundane and rational explanation ....
https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/09/nordstream.html

[smokedpeppers]

https://www.edge.org/
To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.

[smokedpeppers]

The Ashkenazim
https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.co ... shkenazim/

[modern roots]

Time for another long read link smokedpeppers.

[alpha]

Time for another long read link smokedpeppers.

Now does this reach the depths of pure boredom? To request someone produce a link for something they're not going to read anyway?

However, does anyone know what the exclamation mark box above posting a reply is about? That a hotline to Bas? How long's it been around? This visit was the first i noticed it. The Dutch are deceptive.

[smokedpeppers]

https://www.askamanager.org/2022/12/a-t ... oints.html
a truly hilarious company holiday party story, told in bullet points .