Lou Thomas
LouThomas@hear-me.social
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Post #3110040
@Remittancegirl Jokes indirectly reference shared understandings within a community. "Getting" a joke involves the pleasurable sensation of retrieving that shared understanding at the same time as other members of your group do, in response to hearing the indirect reference to it. It's a form of bonding within a community. But sometimes the shared "understanding" is a pejorative view of a particular group, such as women, immigrants, intellectuals, pe...
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Post #3110039
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Humanism #Consciousness #ConsciousnessEvolution #Conscious #Awareness #ConsciousAwareness #BeingThere #BeingHere #BeHereNow #Wordsworth #LargeLanguageModels #LargeLanguageModel #LLMs #LLM #GPT #Human #Humans #Ethics #Meaning #Agency #EthicsInAI #EthicsInScience ...I think that the human brain is an example of nature replicating the large (all of the larger universe) within the small (the brain itself), something that nature does quite frequently, and in a myriad of...
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Post #3110038
@mojala@mastodon.online @Blueteamsherpa Right. Norway, not Sweden. Will fix--thanks.
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Post #3110037
@mojala@mastodon.online @Blueteamsherpa They shored it up against flooding.
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Post #3110036
@Yehuda Looks like they've managed to bell those cats.