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there was substantial overlap in the brain networks used to understand stories and the networks used to navigate interactions with other individuals — in particular, interactions in which we’re trying to figure out the thoughts and feelings of others. Scientists call this capacity of the brain to construct a map of other people’s intentions “theory... See more

specific stories survive because they hold an “ inner significance which is rarely glimpsed consciously, but which nevertheless acts powerfully upon our minds. ”

And so the ‘tentacles’ of Shoggoth were born. Standalone autonomous agents with individual personalities and writing styles, trained to reply to other accounts on X (human and machine minded alike), also capable of creating and posting its own memes.

From its founding, the United States failed to live up its ideals. And yet, it remains the only nation founded on an idea centered on individual liberty. As designed, it remains the greatest hope for freedom.

However, the practice of America has never met the promise of America.

Simple tools make it possible to create complex ones; this is just as true for cognitive tools as it is for physical ones. Humanity has developed thousands of such tools throughout history, ranging from double-entry bookkeeping to the Cartesian coördinate system. So, even though we aren’t more intelligent than we used to be, we have at our disposal... See more

There is a curtain of darkness that is falling across the world, a blanket of fake news and lies is smothering the truth and we know where that leads. We simply cannot afford to let this happen.

copyrighted material being hoovered into large language models to help AI chatbots simulate human speech. If you’re a screenwriter and would like to see which of your work has been appropriated to aid in the effort, click here; he has assembled a searchable database of nearly 140,000 movie and TV scripts that have been used without permission.

There are about 10,000 operational satellites in orbit, she explained, with almost 8,000 of those being LEO, and they’re moving at 7 km a second and 10 times the speed of a bullet.

there is evidence that just as the brain responds to depictions of smells and textures and movements as if they were the real thing, so it treats the interactions among fictional characters as something like real-life social encounters.