agony in the ecstasy

Looking forward to Ninjabot-9000 measuring the electrical activity of my brain and chopping off my limbs for wrongthink.

May the bridges I burn light the way

flux the mean opinion score is actually just a boolean on whether it's goonable content or not

Honestly this is sort of unsettling to watch. From a YouTuber who is doing experiments with AI-powered NPCs in VR: five historical figures are on a train, only the YouTuber is human, the others are LLMs. Watch the LLMs figure out who is the dumb human. youtu.be/MxTWLm9vT_o?si…

museums should be open til like midnight, i don't want to go to the club i want to go look at art or bugs

“Nature does not rush, yet everything is accomplished.”

RFK's voice issues are pretty interesting in the context of public political speaking, because it means he can't sway anyone through emotion of vocal tonality. Some percentage of people you can just say something to in a certain confident assertive voice and they will just go

using open palm to change the shape:

"forever – is composed of nows –"

New #research alert! arXiv.org has a paper detailing what a single #EEG channel can tell us about #brain states in #BCIs. It details the performance of a shallow #CNN to classify mental arithmetic and motor imagery tasks using single-channel EEG data: bit.ly/3zUSrFF

The simplest observation (that the sky is blue, say, or the particle is there) forces us to question everything we know about the workings of the universe. quantamagazine.org/metaphysical-e…

That space after you wake up but before all of your conditioning "loads up"

Some people are like a lovely warm little table lamp and some people are like industrial fluorescent lighting and you know exactly what I mean

and so we dance

“By growing the mushroom’s mycelium, or rootlike threads, into the robot’s hardware, a team led by Cornell University researchers has engineered two types of robots that sense and respond to the environment.” Brilliant use of an oyster mushroom 🍄‍🟫 cnn.com/2024/09/04/sci…

Dylan Urquidi Wake-initiated lucid dreaming (WILD) reddit.com/r/LucidDreamin…