Plans.

Sunday night can be shit when you’re looking at 40 hours of work, 5 planned lunches, 5 planned dinners, 49vhours if doom scrolling and videogames.

But if you say “Tuesday I’m gonna go for a walk at the local park. I’m gonna see if my friend can join.” You now have something that breaks that monotony to look forward too.

Start small.

It’s about 3 dollars a person.

Hello Mr Musk

It is me

Anti-trans marketing agency.

Just send the millions and I’ll prompt grok for more slop.

I have like 30+ folks blocked. My tolerance for bullshit is too low so I have switched to tagging people with reasons why I might go over the edge and block them.

He’s 2 or 3 more interactions like this away from the block list. Any overt hate speech or dehumanizing shit still gets an instablock. But that ain’t this guy afaik. He’s just a douche with ridiculously unpopular opinions.

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Keep telling yourself that.

I agree it’s likely optics but it says volumes about the political tides shifting.

6 months ago most Republicans would have happily sat down for dinner with Nick Fuentes on camera for a chat about Holocaust History.

In short, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave imagines people who have spent their entire lives chained inside a cave, able to see only shadows projected on a wall. Because the shadows are all they have ever known, they mistake them for reality itself.

One prisoner escapes and discovers the outside world, realizing that what everyone in the cave took to be reality was only a limited representation of it.

The core idea is that our perspective can constrain what we think is real or knowable. We may be interpreting appearances without access to the fuller reality that produces them.

You can either take the information you get – that people generally don’t like you – to change your behavior or not. That’s all you bud.

Just don’t go screaming to the void about why nobody likes you at any point. People have literally spelled it out for you.

Cheers.

I’ve added ‘& Mr beast shill’ to your growing list of tags reminding me why I ought to not take anything you say seriously.

You’re one of my least favorite people on Lemmy. Thought you should know. Cheers!

A preemptive /s

What a bad thread.

Delete your account. Never come back.

So thas exactly why I brought up Plato. And I think the song and lyrics do an excellent job summarizing,

Your title asks whether we can infer intelligence. Verbatim. The answer to that is, again, yes. We do it constantly.

You cannot directly observe my intelligence or thoughts. You observe my behavior, language, problem-solving, etc., and infer intelligence from those outputs. The same applies to a machine.

The Chinese Room raises a different question: whether apparently intelligent behavior is sufficient to establish understanding or semantic content. That is not the same as asking whether intelligence can be inferred.

Saying “it’s just following rules” doesn’t setkle that question either. Humans are also physical systems whose cognition is implemented through mechanisms. The existence of rules or mechanisms does not itself show that intelligence is absent.

So becaus your question is specifically “can we infer intelligence?”, yes.

Now, If the question is “does intelligent-looking behavior prove semantic understanding or consciousness?”, that’s a different and much harder question. But most importantly, it’s not the question you asked.

Natural selection would tell us that this is survivorship bias.

How is this thought experiment different from Platos allegory of the cave?

I.e. “if someone grew up in a cubicle…”

So the answer is, perhaps surprisingly to some, yes.

I can directly observe my own thought processes because I am inside the system generating them. You cannot; you can only infer my intelligence from my behavior. Likewise, an intelligence instantiated inside a machine may have first-person access to its own cognition, while an outside observer can only infer intelligence from its outputs and mechanisms.

Nobody wants to hear it: exercise.

Walk up a steep hill for an hour or two a day. Rate your mood every day. Watch the results form clear as day.

I used a mood tracker for over 5 years. Every May I would hike a nearby trail every morning. Looking at 5 years of mood tracking data, I was always happier than average every May. It lasted into June. Was gone by July. Every year.

If you push your cardio to the point where all you can think about is your next breath, it forces you to meditate. It forces presence. It trains you to break the ruminative thought cycles.

So, again, no one wants to hear it. But exercise is by far the best solution to anxiety. Plenty of research backing this up.

I know the article says depression. It’s a meta analysis. Anxiety is also covered in some studies analysed here.

Edit,: literally the reason I prefaced this post was for all responses received this far. We’ve found the folks that don’t wanna hear it. I would t have opened with what I opened with I’d the rough percentage of naysayers weren’t the exact humans I am talking to.

Get a clue. Go walk up a hill. I’m not here to argue. Write something to the folks the conducted the hundreds of studies that contributed to this meta-analysis.

Or don’t, and continue to insist you’re special.

It’s all you.

By sold well do you mean he bought himself a million copies so it could be said that it sold well?

That’s the entire fucking streamer house of cards.

Vote? Hell no.

Enact policy, hold office? Hell yes.

Can someone pass the memo to political columnists?

“Judge strikes down motion denying trump admins attempt to stop the prevention of denying immigrants from striking down denied attempts at prevented…”

Fucking OUT WITH IT. USE YOUR WORDS.

The CEO of Stihl chainsaws wants the chainsaw makers to work more for less.

Bold strategy.

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Their goal is to make life nearly unlivable by elections so they can do something drastic.

My buddy feeds electricity into the grid from his solar rig. The electric company gives him credits, which he is unable to use beyond the bill he shouldn’t have to pay to begin with, since he’s too efficient.