If you were taught the sum total of the publicly available text on the Internet, would you speak machine code as your native tongue?
Or, let’s put this slightly differently… your underlying operating system speaks synapse discharge potentials mediated over chemicals like seratonin, but you’ve learned mainly in English… why don’t you write me a poem in excited hippocampus?
These things don’t think, they don’t understand what they’re doing, and they haven’t got the slightest clue that machine code and, say, Ruby even are related, except through a vague N-dimensional vector that averages over the fact that humans relate the two more than they do butterflies and industrial lubricant.
“As a Jew, I say: never again means never again. As an opponent of
imperialism and settler colonialism everywhere, I say: from the river
to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
The full context of that quote’s quote.
Also, no one pay attention to the ongoing genocide, there’s a slogan on the Internet to critique!
On a closer reading the article’s use of “survival” is pretty correct, since it’s looking at what’s required to keep a particular lineage functionally immortal.
Each lineage is just bragging rights and ego. The species as a whole doesn't care a lot about lineages. A very long time ago, there was a population bottleneck that reduced Homo Sapiens to a few families. [https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487] Those few lineages are thriving.
The species could go on reducing the population for a long time. Who's to say we wouldn't be vastly better off with 500Mm overall humans? The population could shrink down, then expand again. Shrinking now is not a bad thing, it's just a change from what we had been doing.
But didn’t MTG already prove that it was Hunter Biden giving Xi Xiping a “lab leak” in the Wuhan “wet market”?
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