tetranomos

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[–] tetranomos@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i overheard a black preacher, the other day, on the television, assert that people who are 80 years old are "outliving" those who are "30" and "40"; while other preachers are still making outward commitments to the belief in a something-to-come. two ways in which preachers make use of eschatological thinking at the ends of history.

[–] tetranomos@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

is this because we're listening to all that damn "post-hardcore" music on the patios and at the parks in public?

[–] tetranomos@awful.systems -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"social media" as buzzword (scientific speech, scientific image) and "social media" as political violence (commercial speech, manifest image) are two different beasts under the empire of law.

[–] tetranomos@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

If machine intelligence is indeed a different form of intelligence, then it can be observed and judged on the basis of its own merits, as opposed to a messianic waiting for a moment where it might equal or eclipse (weakly defined) human intelligence. This would even render obsolete the question as to whether or not machines can think—which in itself willfully glosses over the corresponding opposite question, “Can humans think?” posed by the former Fluxus artist (and Emmett Williams collaborator) Tomas Schmit in the year 2000 (Schmit et al. 2007, 18–19). — Crapularity Hermeneutics: Interpretation as the Blind Spot of Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Other Algorithmic Producers of the Postapocalyptic Present. Florian Cramer.

[–] tetranomos@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

i mean, by the grammatical rules, it's still a valid reply to the comment.

[modifier][noun][verb][modifier][noun].

gödel reminds us: "syntax all on its own cannot determine semantics".

the point is to evidence grammaticalness despite apparent meaningfulness, and the commenter may just be seeking to simulate the point with a logically consistent application of the rules at play. "incomplete" with respect to [mimicking] or [reproducing] an [socio-historical cultural] artifact, but not inconclusive in evidencing the point (remixing to produce variations on the theme; i.e., there are evidences of 20+-word recursive sentences, if not larger).

nothing about the buffalo sentence entails the social rule "when someone else posts the buffalo sentence, it must match the aforementioned sentence verbatim". permutations on the point are totally fair game.

[–] tetranomos@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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[–] tetranomos@awful.systems -1 points 2 months ago

[narrator]: bill gates did not GET ReST.

[–] tetranomos@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i'm drawing on the confluence of political circumstances involving spoofing identity in a post-identitarian world: https://infosecwriteups.com/the-curious-case-of-github-commit-spoofing-a-lighthearted-exploration-54ddbaaaf40a

dr. nash's article is about the politically loaded significance of linguistic practices/naming, not just "black women's genitalia", as a basis for analyzing the material conditions reflected in forms of gentrification.

you are enjoying the soft bigotry of low expectations, or to read her without the principle of charity. i have every reason to suppose you're intentionally weaponizing obtuseness/reductionist posturing.

[–] tetranomos@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

tbh, it's one of the drier bits like what you might find any day on language log (upenn). do you read much philosophy of art anyway?

[–] tetranomos@awful.systems -4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

my favorite pornotrope is how people still swear by the belief that apple computers suffer no "malware", because why are androids apparently so promiscuous like any black person wants to spoof torvalds' github username

do androids sleep with promiscuous scapegoats?

[–] tetranomos@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago

between The Delectable Negro and In Defence of Cannibalism (routley. 1982): and and and and?

 

will desantis veto natural language question answering in "a.i." feature-laced apps when negative hedonic [tones] respond to "sexual" cartesian theatre prompt engineers connected within florida's policywalls?


[tones]: "If some negative hedonic tones are appropriate and useful for some purpose, then it will sometimes be inappropriate, and destructive of that purpose, to intervene." ~ hedonic rationality. corns, j. 2020.

 
 

unrelated note: "art has emancipated time."

 

Combined with general model uncertainty, it seems premature to conclude that far-future-focused actions dominate short-term helping. It's likely that the far future will still dominate after more thorough analysis, but by much less than a naive future fanatic would have thought.

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