PRAKRITI IS INSENTIENT AND WILL ALWAYS BE INSENTIENT!!!

ive heard it called the Virat but I think Viraj is more common

@anemone what's your take on it? I very much agree with the traditional perspective, except that I think only humans can understand chinese because we have souls which is different from his milquetoast opinion that a sufficiently advanced computer could understand chinese.

@vriska Iran sucks but were even worse

@anemone hes fat and sassy

@coolboymew @vitalis

I love my rainbow unicorn sparkle toothpaste so much!!!

sridharas gloss (or maybe the commentary on his gloss i may have read it wrong) says that Thou art That (tat tvam asi) means the jivatman is Ishvara (yes!!!) but also says those who know Brahman without being devoted to Ishvara only know the "Thou" without knowing the "That", which would definitely explain why many bhaktas say that the bliss of Ishvara is so much better than the bliss of the Atman experienced by the jnana yogis. I dig it!!

@pwm @graf I think I decided on general gaos. my sister has jaw surgery tomorrow so if I want the family to have chinese together I'd be being really selfish. but maybe in a week I'll get my fix.

@Alex I think ive only tried general gao

@Alex which is the best

my pepsi yesterday was so good

what is the difference between sesame chicken, orange chicken, and general gaos chicken

damn now I want orange chicken

@mia I needed this kick in the pants

if we actually followed through on internet enabling universal access to human knowledge, LLMs would be a much more ridiculous idea. if somebody built decent full-text search on top of anna's archive, you would be a fool for typing the same query into chatgpt. why would you ever want some lossly compressed version of the same thing that fits into VRAM and makes shit up?

the fact that half the anti-slop machine arguments are just thinly veiled copyright apologia is actually the thing rapidly pushing us in the opposite direction.

and i do mean a lot of the actions people take against LLMs are actually actively making things worse. try accessing the internet from a country where you need a VPN to bypass censorship, a lot of big websites now block you for looking like an AI scraper if you don't have a residential IP.

it's a disease and i worry we are going to give up on that dream and throw away all the potential that the internet had to protect ourselves from it -- if we keep making information harder to access, that only brings us closer to the future they want, where a corporate chatbot is the primary mode of interaction with a computer for most people.

they already have the training data. the best way to fight back is to pirate more books.

@anemone I prefer the taste of steamed tbh

big beets are so hard to roast properly, next time I'm chopping it up and steaming it

@feld on fedi the users beg on nostr the admins beg

instagram knows I like bats and boy do they deliver