I know someone who, when it's having a panic attack and is asked a question, it asks the person asking what the correct answer is. Even if they have no way of knowing.
If I built a robot pigeon that can fly, scavenge for crumbs, sing matings calls, and approximate sex with other pigeons, is that an AGI? It can't read or write or talk or compose music or draw or paint or do math or use the scientific method or debate philosophy. But it can do everything a pigeon can. Is it general or not? And if it's not, what makes human intelligence general in a way that pigeon intelligence isn't?
And who decides what a true bug is, huh? Bullshit pseudoscientific taxonomists?
Good people shouldn't let "got mine fuck you" people have their mine, especially if their mine is a relationship with a good person
I don't see any funny letters here
If you're going to make Wittgenstein's argument that language exists only to fulfill a social purpose, then I am happy to engage you on that deeper level, but in doing so we must confront the purpose of the vernacular usage of the word "politics". If it's not a word based on representing some idea of truth, what is it for? As the Hard Drive has correctly pointed out, it's for complaining about minorities in video games. It's for racism. Personally, I think we should call out the use of racist tools, including social tools such as words. If someone complains about politics, we should call them a racist and move on with our lives.
I'm pretty sure Mastodon has algorithms. All internet infrastructure runs on algorithms, except for weird experimental AI stuff.
You may find David Grieber's book Bullshit Jobs interesting. TL;DR: human beings have a natural drive and need to spend their lives doing useful work. If that need isn't met, they get depressed. Getting to do something actually useful at work is considered a privilege, a job perk. Companies offer more pay as compensation for the lack of job perks at jobs that don't do anything useful.
The Romans believed that all religions were already near perfect counterparts. They maintained that there is only one pantheon of gods, and the pantheons of different cultures are just different names and interpretations of the same gods. The Romans used it as a tool of conquest. After they conquered a nation, they told the natives that they all worship the same gods, and put a lot of effort into making sure everyone identified as being part of the same religion. It's easier to revolt against an oppressor who is a different religion and ethnicity than you. Human beings have a harder time organising resistance against a group they culturally identify with.
Some Roman scholars had limited contact with Vikings, and they determined that Odin is the Norse counterpart of Hermes. That's the point where syncretism starts to get a bit silly, because while they are both gods of travellers, the scholars completely ignored the hierarchy of the Norse gods. They ignored that Odin is the skyfather. Perhaps that's why our modern culture is so fascinated by Thor as the most popular Norse god. As a thunder god, Thor syncretises to Jupiter/Zeus, the king of the gods. Syncretism actually continued into the Christian age, and some believed that the Norse counterpart of Jesus is Loki. It's fascinating. You see, while Loki was a trickster, his other two big functions in the Norse pantheon were the scapegoat and the bringer of Ragnarok. When the Aesir promised to pay a dwarf to build a wall and didn't want to pay up, they went to Loki for help. Loki seduced the dwarf's donkey to slow down the work, and that's how we got Sleipnir. Loki was at times the savoir of the Aesir. And as for Ragnarok, the Christian monks who talked to the Vikings saw Ragnarok as a Norse name for the rapture. So they assumed Loki was Jesus.
Now, if you tried syncretising Christianity to the Greek pantheon, Jesus would come out equivalent to Dionysus. There's the wine miracles, there's the hanging out with prostitutes, and there's the being an ally to slaves and the oppressed. Slaves were allowed to join the Cult of Dionysus, which is really cool. And of course, if you want to get queer with it (which I always do), then Dionysus being raised as a mortal girl fits in nicely with Jesus not having a Y chromosome because there was no sperm involved in his conception. And I don't even need to tell you how queer Loki is. So it's really neat that Jesus and two of his syncretisms are trans. But there's a lot of other thematic similarities between Jesus and Dionysus like the fact they're both liberators and they're both conquerer-kings. As paradoxical as that is, it's true of both of them.
The Orokin were a powerful and opulent empire thousands of years ago. You're actually from the Orokin era, and so are your warframes, but you've lost your memory from all that time in cryosleep and you don't know much about them anymore. You know more than an average joe, but that's not saying much because the average joe knows next to nothing except that they left behind a bunch of ruins. Ordis is in the same boat as you, he's an Orokin era cephalon, but most of his memory is corrupted. If you keep going on the main quest, you might just learn some of the secrets of the Orokin, and what the hell happened that caused their empire to fall. It had something to do with a great war, you know that much, but you don't know who the war was against. Nobody does, except maybe the Lotus.
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I think Zero might be a he/they enby