High bpm music. Vocaloid or phonk. And noise cancelling headphones.

A quick Google search pulled this up: Growing Living Rat Neurons to play… DOOM?

“I know this defies the law of gravity but see, I never studied law” -Bugs Bunny

The man pictured is L L Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto which was supposed to be a universal international language. (It is the worlds most widely spoken constructed language (conlang))

Affricates are consonants that are cut off like the ch sound in English where it’s kind of like the “t” sound and “sh” sound pushed together.

Diphthongs are when you pronounce two vowels in the same syllables. Like “boy” or “loud” etc.

SVO is Subject-Verb-Object. Like “I ate lunch” which you could say in a grammatically correct non-SVO order like “Lunch was eaten by me”

As for tense words they’re probably referring to using separate words for tense instead of conjugations. Like how in Mandarin verbs are often indefinite and then you add a word to say whether that action happened or is happening whereas in English we use -ed and -ing etc. modifying the base word.

As for mal- I think they’re referring to how Esperanto uses it to mean “opposite” whereas Latin languages typically use it to mean “bad” or “wrong” or “evil”

Are you joking? There are hundreds of different ways to get water to them. If you move any physical resources into a place, chances are high you can move water in the same way.

There’s also just building pipelines and extra desalination plants along the coasts or some more exotic methods of water extraction from the air or earth depending on how you want to do things.

Point is that we have the technology to produce as much fresh water as we could probably ever have a desire for. Fresh water is an extensible resource. And as long as we have vehicles, we can get that water to the people who need it (though pipelines would be more efficient).

So why does it seem like water is scarce if it isn’t? Because it requires infrastructure to produce, and—while building that infrastructure is very possible and not difficult at all for a developed country—few countries would pay to save the lives of the less fortunate unless it benefited them economically.

In other words, the scarcity you mention only exists due to the greed and selfishness of those with economic resources. Overpopulation isn’t the issue, economic systems that value money/revenue over the lives of others (capitalism) are the issue.

Edit: Also, the rivers running dry is mostly an issue with wasted water and allocation of that water (as the commenter above mentioned). Both of which would be drastically decreased if profit wasn’t controlling their regulation more than preservation or societal benefit.

Heard of it but didn’t use it. Tbf I wasn’t really interested in pirating music as much as other media

Hey now, I’m younger than that and I know how to do both things lol

Personally I feel like this graphic doesn’t really show the data as the beatiful thing. It’s just text with AI generated stereotyped characters for each country.

It is a pretty clean looking image though, anyone know what model was used? (Or know which models are good at making clean vector-like graphics like this?)

When I started trying to learn a new language I was learning Spanish in school, and also trying to learn German, Mandarin, and French on my own. Honestly it worked pretty well, I could even keep them separate in my mind easily which was surprising since people told me I’d get them mixed up if I learned them at the same time.

Anyway, it was only for a year or so because I eventually lost the hyper fixation on language and stopped learning all of them, but yeah I kinda did the same thing you described.

When I’d get bored with one language I’d move on to another. Sometimes I’d spend a whole day on just one, sometimes I’d switching between each of them in the same day.

Let’s fucking goooooooo!!!

I am so ready for another Remedy game

I definitely don’t think the human brain could be modeled by a Turing machine.

In 1994, Hava Siegelmann proved that her new (1991) computational model, the Artificial Recurrent Neural Network (ARNN), could perform hypercomputation (using infinite precision real weights for the synapses)

Since the human brain is largely comprised of complex recurrent networks, it stands to reason the same holds for it.

The human brain is an analog computer and is—as far as I’m aware—an undecidable system. As in you cannot algorithmically predict the behavior of the net with certainty. Predictable behavior can arise but it’s probabilistic not certain.

I also think I see what you’re saying with the thermometer being “conscious” of temperature, but that kind of collapses the definition of conscious to “influenced by” which makes the word superfluous. Using conscious to refer to an ability requiring learning of patterns of different sources of influence seems like a more useful definition.

Also in the crazy unlikely event in which I actually end up creating a sentient thing, I’ll be hesitant to publish any work related to it.

If my theory about how focus/attention work is correct, anything capable of focus must be capable of experiencing pain/irritation/agitation. I’m not fond of the idea of going “hey here’s how to create something that feels pain” to the world since a lot of people around me don’t even feel empathy for their own kind

I’ve yet to meet another one but you’re probably right lol

Of course it would but see only my ideology gets that!

The problem is Trotskyists and Marxist-Leninists and anarcho-communists and anarcho-syndicalists and …

/s

10yo: “Why doesn’t anyone listen to me?”

12yo: “Ah they just don’t listen to me because I’m a little kid”

14yo: “Ah they just don’t understand because I didn’t give enough evidence”

16yo: “They don’t listen to evidence because they spent their lives in this tiny religious town, the rest of the world is better”

18yo: “…I don’t want to live on this planet anymore”

Oh look it’s a wallpaper of Rache Bartmoss!

Wait wtf? When did they add corn to the community icon? This is getting out of hand…

It is definitely both.

The tie pattern is probably the most obvious artifact, but the lighting and focus being inconsistent is what kicks off the intuitive “this is definitely GenAI” sense

*well-made nuclear warheads

Pure fission bombs (the simplest kind of nukes) are literally just “let’s put enough of this plutonium close enough together that the chain reaction is sustained” a very simple warhead could have plutonium spaced just slightly farther than necessary for the reaction to happen and hold them that distance apart with a breakable or crumple-able beam so when the shell hits basically anything, the beam buckles, the plutonium moves closer together reaching critical mass, and adios

Could this still act as a warhead if you added propulsion (and prayed to the void the plutonium doesn’t break/vibrate free during acceleration) ? Yes. Would it almost certainly go off if it was dropped during a juggling act? Also probably yes.

if you don’t think my framework is useful, could you provide a more useful alternative or explain exactly where it fails? If you can it’d be a great help.

As for “skill issue” while I think generalized comparisons of brains are possible (in fact we have some now) I think you might be underestimating the nature of chaotic systems or have a belief that consciousness will arise with equivalent qualia whenever it exists.

There is nothing saying that our brains process qualia in exactly the same way, quite the opposite, and yet we can reach the same capabilities of thought even with large scale neurodivergences. The blind can still experience the world without their sense of sight, those with synesthesia can experience and understand reality even if their brain processes multiple stimuli as the same qualia. It is very possible that there are multiple different paths to consciousness which will have unique neurological behaviors that only makes sense within their original mind and may have no analog in another.

The more I look into the functions of the brain—btw I am by no means an expert and this is not my field—the more I realize many of our current models are limited by our desire to classify things discreetly. The brain is an absolute mess. That is what makes it so hard to understand but also what makes it so powerful.

It may not be possible to isolate qualia at all. It may not be possible to isolate certain thoughts or memory from other circumstances in which it is recalled. There might not be elemental/specific spike trains for a certain sense that are disjoint from other senses. And if this is the case, it is likely possible different individuals may have different couplings of qualia making them impossible to compare directly.

The idea that other processing areas of the brain (which by the way we do see in the brain (place neurons remapping is a simple example)) may be entangled in different ways across individuals means that even among members of the same species it likely won’t be possible to directly compare raw experiences because the required hardware to process a specific experience for one individual might not exist in the other individual’s mind.

Discrete ideas like communicable knowledge/relationships should (imo) be possible to isolate well enough that you could theoretically implant them into any being capable of understanding abstract thought, but raw experiences (ei qualia) most likely will not have this property.

Also, the project isn’t available online and is a mess because it’s not my field and I have an irrational desire to build everything from scratch because I want to understand exactly how it is implemented and hey it’s a personal hobby project, don’t judge lol

So far I’ve mostly only replicated the research of others. I have tried some experiments with my own ideas, but spiking neural nets are difficult to simulate on normal hardware, and I need a significant number of neurons, so currently I’m working on designing a more efficient implementation than the ones I’ve previously written.

After that, my plan is to experiment with my own designs for a spiking artificial hippocampus implementation. If my ideas are sound I should be able to use similar systems to implement both short and long term memory storage.

If that succeeds I’ll be moving onto the main event of focus and attention which I also have some ideas for, but it really requires the other systems to be functional.

I probably won’t get that far but hey it’s at least interesting to think about and it’s honestly fun to watch a neural net learn patterns in real time even if it’s kinda slow.

Edit: removed because I accidentally commented the exact same thing twice since the post button didn’t seem to work the first time lol