On my eye, here I can share a little 👁️

*blinks eyes independently

This right here is one of life’s quiet treasures

What a save!

If I saw her crawling after me, I might actually shit my pants. Seeing that thing crawling around a suburban street would be way scarier than some disheveled clown

Radial

Steam OS has kind of the same philosophy too. Normal users can treat it like a switch, only ever downloading from steam, and have a perfectly intuitive experience. But power users still have the options to run other software, customize the os, and even outright replace the os.

In my experience, if I don’t salt the hell out of the water it’ll end up bland. That’s just what I found through trial and error

We have functional agency

Is this scientifically provable? I don’t see how this isn’t a subjective statement.

Artificial intelligence requires agency and spontaneity

Says who? Hollywood? For almost a hundred years the term has been used by computer scientists to describe computers using “fuzzy logic” and “learning programs” to solve problems that are too complicated for traditional data structures and algorithms to reasonably tackle, and it’s really a very general and fluid field of computer science, as old as computer science itself. See the Wikipedia page

And finally, there is no special sauce to animal intelligence. There’s no such thing as a soul. You yourself are a Rube Goldberg machine of chemistry and electricity, your only “concepts” obtained through your dozens of senses constantly collecting data 24/7 since embryo. Not that the intelligence of today’s LLMs are comparable to ours, but there’s no magic to us, we’re Rube Goldberg machines too.

That’s just kicking the can down the road, because now you have to define agency. Do you have agency? If you didn’t, would you even know? Can you prove it either way? In any case, this is no longer a scientific discussion, but a philosophical one, because whether or not an entity has “intelligence” or “agency” are not testable questions.

These systems do not display intelligence any more than a Rube Goldberg machine is a thinking agent.

Well now you need to define “intelligence” and that’s wandering into some thick philosophical weeds. The fact is that the term “artificial intelligence” is as old as computing itself. Go read up on Alan Turing’s work.

Squint your eyes and the last photo looks like a rule34 robo-jackal

If anything, to me it seems more important for a slower language to be optimized. Ideally everything would be perfectly optimized, but over-optimization is a thing: making optimizations that aren’t economical. Even though c is many times faster than python, for many projects it’s fast enough that it makes no practical difference to the user. They’re not going to bitch about a function taking 0.1 seconds to execute instead of 0.001, but they might start to care when that becomes 100 seconds vs 1. As the program becomes more time intensive to run, the python code is going to hit that threshold where the user starts to notice before c, so economically, the python would need to be optimized first.

It’s great for verbose log statements

Hey I resemble that remark

I’m just trying to keep my spending minimal in general

That’s a symptom? Crazy

I almost wish that I had stock to sell