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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 51s ago

philosophy the one intellectual endeavor Sufficiently Advanced LLMs cannot replace, because philosophy is only fully sensible in the context of the Individual Life 😎

Brett Karlan@oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 10m ago

The obvious upshot of recent improvements in LLMs is that things we always knew were easy (theoretical physics, Fields-level mathematics, engineering and computer programming) are, in fact, easy, while the things we knew were hard (writing 8000 words on one sentence from David Lewis) remain hard

Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 10m ago

phantasmAgaric 🍄@lalonde.bsky.social · 44m ago

oh my god guys this is so embarrassing but is 'female' the boy one or the girl one

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 2h ago

discourse take: just read the anthony verity translation of the odyssey

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 3h ago

oops! all cherished childhood memories

haha yeah@freshfleisch.bsky.social · 3h ago

the day my millennial nostalgia died was the day i realised my cherished childhood memory of the period that the disney’s aladdin cartoon played at 6PM so that i could watch it while eating dinner alone was actually very sad

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 10h ago

Happy note change day in 70 year long Part 1 of 639 year long John Cage organ piece to all who celebrate. The next change will be in October 2027

As Slow as Possible - Wikipedia

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 4h ago

It's nobody knows what a body can do Wednesday

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 12h ago

free and easy dreams, bsky ｡zZ }Ĭ{

Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters 2

YouTube video by Green Vikram

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 21h ago

People talk a lot about the causes of declining birth rates, but it's really simple. People used to need enough kids to put on a touring Shakespeare production - maybe six, even eight. But with the rising popularity of Samuel Beckett? Two is sufficient.

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 23h ago

good title, music better hold up

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 23h ago

oops! all sentient beings

surrogate corpse @consume.red · yesterday

when being aggressively blunt with someone is actually good for them, that's kind of rude

surrogate corpse @consume.red · yesterday

this is my friend, Lucas Membrane

Dark Hi And Lois @darkhiandlois.bsky.social · yesterday

Irma improbably reveals herself as a fan of longtime British free improvisors AMM, invoking both "The Nameless Uncarved Block" and "What Is There in Uselessness To Cause You Distress?" Not to mention IRMA, their opera with Tom Phillips 10/10 QDUs, she is extremely unhappy

Irma is staring at a brown cellphone-looking object that she is holding like a cellphone. She looks completely dead inside.
Irma: I'm trying to cure my cell-phone addiction.

Lois, eyebrows raised, concerned and mildly confused: That's just a block of wood.
Irma, holding the block of wood out, even more dead inside: Exactly. Its only function is uselessness.

surrogate corpse @consume.red · yesterday

these days all the insect kids are posting on instargram

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 2d ago

A New Trolley Problem
Consider the following case:

A brain in a vat on Twin Earth is at the wheel of a runaway trolley. There are only two options that the brain can take: the right side of the fork in the track or the left side of the fork. There is no way in sight of derailing or stopping the trolley and the brain is aware of this, for the brain knows trolleys. The brain is causally hooked up to the trolley such that the brain can determine the course which the trolley will take.

On the right side of the track there is a single railroad worker, Jones, who will definitely be killed if the brain steers the trolley to the right. If the railman on the right lives, he will go on to kill five men for the sake of killing them, but in doing so will inadvertently save the lives of thirty orphans (one of the five men he will kill is planning to destroy a bridge that the orphan's bus will be crossing later that night). One of the orphans that will be killed would have grown up to become a tyrant who would make good utilitarian men do bad things. Another of the orphans would grow up to become G.E.M. Anscombe, while a third would invent the pop-top can.

If the brain in the vat chooses the left side of the track, the trolley will definitely hit and kill a railman on the left side of the track, "Leftie" and will hit and destroy ten beating hearts on the track that could (and would) have been transplanted into ten patients in the local hospital that will die without donor hearts. These are the only hearts available, and the brain is aware of this, for the brain knows hearts. If the railman on the left side of the track lives, he too will kill five men, in fact the same five that the railman on the right would kill. However, "Leftie" will kill the five as an unintended consequence of saving ten men: he will inadvertently kill the five men rushing the ten hearts to the local hospital for transplantation. A further result of "Leftie's" act would be that the busload of orphans will be spared. Among the five men killed by "Leftie" are both the man responsible for putting the brain at the controls of the trolley, and the author of this example. If the ten hearts and "Leftie" are killed by the trolley, the ten prospective heart-transplant patients will die and their kidneys will be used to save the lives of twenty kidney-transplant patients, one of whom will grow up to cure cancer, and one of whom will grow up to be Hitler. There are other kidneys and dialysis machines available, however the brain does not know kidneys, and this is not a factor.

Assume that the brain's choice, whatever it turns out to be, will serve as an example to other brains-in-vats and so the effects of his decision will be amplified. Also assume that if the brain chooses the right side of the fork, an unjust war free of war crimes will ensue, while if the brain chooses the left fork, a just war fraught with war crimes will result. Furthermore, there is an intermittently active Cartesian demon deceiving the brain in such a manner that the brain is never sure if it is being deceived.

QUESTION: What should the brain do?

Daniel Solis@danielsolis.bsky.social · 6d ago

There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 2d ago

ass photo but you can see them both at least

two hummingbirds (p sure they're black-chinned hummingbirds) in a tree. one is slightly lower down and you can kinda see it stretching up toward the other. it was vocalizing a bunch and occasionally flying at it

surrogate corpse@consume.red · 2d ago

after making and eating this i went on a walk and saw two black-chinned hummingbirds exhibiting Behavior

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 2d ago

you can just put a coconut milk sauce on spaghetti. they can't stop you

onions and zucchini (and minor other stuff) cooking

i added a bunch of coconut milk (and some vegetable broth but less of that)

i put it on spaghetti and it tasted good

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 2d ago

"this changes everything" babe, everything changes everything

Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 2d ago

My new paper "The Modal Catuṣkoṭi" coherently translates Mahayana Buddhist philosophy's structure into formal modal logic across all relevant systems. It's the first peer-reviewed comparative-philosophy article with central model-theoretic results Lean-verified. scholarworks.sjsu.edu/comparativep...

The Modal Catuṣkoṭi: Formalizing Emptiness in Classical Modal Logic

Nāgārjuna’s arguments in the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā rely extensively on modus tollens, yet this inference is invalid in the paraconsistent frameworks typically used to formalize the catuṣkoṭi. We develo...

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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 2d ago

y'all'd've baoth

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 2d ago

taking a nap from 7-8:30 not conducive to "bedtime is 10pm" it turns out

Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · last wk.

People don't realise that the ONLY way to make a faithful adaptation of a text with a Cyclops in it is to make it middlebrow.

Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 3d ago

Streaming sucks not because it has too many choices, but because it's evil, which shines out of every pore of every app, and because there are actually a lot less choices than they'd like you to believe.

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 3d ago

listening again. friend (@aerialprison.bsky.social) reporter that listening "felt like being a water droplet" which is an apt description

surrogate corpse@consume.red · 3d ago

e.g.,

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 3d ago

bob kaufman

DOLOROUS ECHO

The holey little holes
In my skin,
Millions of little
Secret graves,
Filled with dead
Feelings
That won't stay
Dead.

The hairy little hairs
On my head,
Millions of little
Secret trees,
Filled with dead
Birds,
That won't stay
Dead.

When I die,
I won't stay
Dead.

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 3d ago

so is thomas pynchon's shadow ticket ever going to actually come out?

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 3d ago

🧿

business goose🪿@goose.art · 3d ago

interesting how corps means body in french but in english we call it a body, and a corpse is a dead version

ponder @ponder.ooo · 3d ago

given that within the last few years they've gradually reduced the amount of veritas in vino by more than 50% this is hardly saying much. the "extra veritas" vino you can buy at the store still has way less veritas than normal vino had ten years ago, it's criminal that they can market it that way

surrogate corpse @consume.red · 3d ago

vino, now with 10% more veritas