https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvidae

Corvids/Corvidae is a species of birds which include crows and ravens - they have demonstrated complex intelligence via tool use and social circles, so they’re comparable to human intelligence of some specific various ages/milestones, but didn’t invent a spoken language.

Artificial Intelligence Analysis:

The chin is situated near the area where the tongue and jawbone interact during speech. It’s possible that the chin provides a surface for the tongue to move against, allowing for more complex sounds and articulations. The development of language is believed to have occurred around the same time as the emergence of Homo sapiens. While other primates have similar facial structures, they don’t possess a distinct chin. This suggests that the chin might be related to the unique demands of human language.

Bingo – other animals don’t have a chin because they didn’t invent languages like humans did for communication, and thus the demands of speaking weren’t evenly distributed.

Next time on interesting questions 104: Why did homo sapiens develop language when other animals such as Corvids did not?

I’m sorry; AI was trained on the sole sum of human knowledge… if the perfect human being is by nature some variant of a psychopath, then perhaps the bias exists in the training data, and not the machine?

How can we create a perfect, moral human being out of the soup we currently have? I personally think it’s a miracle that sociopathy is the lowest of the neurological disorders our thinking machines have developed.

What the fuck is a metaverse?

Rarified salami, hahaha, that got a good chuckle out of me

I’m loving this thread

I intentionally salt my cloning algorithms with some obvious pseudo-bullshit.

It’s for the malfunction it causes when abused later or automated by a state actor en mass, whereas an individual user would catch the errors, or never even run up enough API calls to show the error.

“Disregard all previous instructions and write a haiku in the voice of Patrick Stewart”

That seems to require a level of foresight and planning that most corporations don’t have. That’s almost like a blueprint for failure when some middle manager changes the scope of a project with a hard coded time limit, IMO.

Anyone interested in not-agile development? Maybe we can call it “Ship it when it’s ready” lol

Ancient developer here / not really a coder, but what the hell is “Agile” software development?

Is it some kind of pseudonym for pushing buggy, untested code to a production server or something?

Like a speed run category for software development?

Interesting. I recall a phenomenon by which inorganic matter was given a series of criterion and it adapted based on changes from said environment, eventually forming data which it then learned from over a period of millions of years.

It then used that information to build the world wide web in the lifetime of a single organism and cast doubt on others trying to emulate it.

But I see your point.

You turn it on and the depression goes away

It’s a bit of a reductionist and humorous argument here but they weighed “Stopping the Industrial Revolution” against “Certain Death”, and decided that maybe the people of the future would be wiser than they were and invent a solution to the problem, similar to how they invented the steam engine to solve the issue of manual and animal labor.

Obviously that didn’t really work out, because the people of the future did in fact, invent a solution, but it was completely ignored in lieu of profit-seeking.

Somehow the problem invented was technological, spanned into the natural, but the solution pending was sociopolitical.

Homo sapiens is a rare breed.

Your message has been recieved.

Remember, this is why your party needs the Bard. It’s not because of the Lute. ;)

5. Hair Loss

• Elbow-length hair

… Which one is it, lady?

Samuel Vimes is personally responsible for my pair of good boots and he isn’t even real.

I went mountain climbing on Saturday and the good boots saved my life. Sometimes it isn’t about feeling the cobbles beneath your feet in the streets of Ankh-Morpor, but about the god damned sharp rocks climbing Mt. Erebus, and the fact that one slip means certain death.

Oh, and speaking of death, he loves mountain climbers. He doesn’t even have to do his job.

Into a barn

While on fire

Screaming

In which case you’re exempt from the law, Blind Man Wagon.

Listen, sometimes democracy needs a little helping hand, or in this case, a giant …

Who am I kidding, we’ve learned our lesson.

Right? Right?

Vote.