No, we’re really all grug cavemen.

Hmm. I’ve never been able to control the dream around me with any accuracy, but I can always control my own actions.

OP knew they were dreaming, which is the main requirement.

Yup. Jurisdiction is very important, but a lot of people seem to have never considered it.

And if you’re not aware, Saudi is still a medieval-style absolute monarchy with public beheadings for, like, adultery. ^{(And a valued Western ally)}

Could be! Like “under the laws of Saudi Arabia…” in the legal advice community.

Yes, the spelling is terrible, even if the spoken language is not.

Yeah, but like, something that’s signed on the face might be signed higher or lower, even if it’s the same variant of the same sign, for example. Kind of like how my “oo” might be different from your “oo” even if we’re both saying “roof”. And then maybe people start doing it on the neck…

I’m not sure it’s any different or better in that way.

It’s pretty hard to express general, commonsense ideas in math, or abstract/complex ideas in cartoons, though.

Most creoles and other such contact languages tend to be analytic, though. Synthetic languages certainly suck for learners, I’m not sure about why agglutinative doesn’t catch on more easily.

I don’t miss the articles in Russian, and genders seem like a random thing to embed, so that’s all great.

Exhausting to do for a long period, and requires a direct and deliberate sight line to work - there will be no shouting “fire”.

It’s actually been suggested the earliest languages could have been sign languages, since other apes don’t fully voluntarily control their noises. I would guess the above are why we moved on.

IIRC there still are dialects. Like, a gesture exists on a continuum of possibly trajectories, and one “speaker” might do it slightly differently from another.

Hmm, interesting. Do you have reasons, or was that just a random choice? I know pretty little about it. Actually, I’m not even sure if it’s Turkic or Persian or something else.

Are we sure it’s actually usable as a natural language?

I’ve heard good things about Indonesian/Malay. It probably helps it was a regional lingua franca for a long time.

English was legit the best choice in Europe - analytic, with vocabulary drawn from a couple major families, and (almost) no grammatical gender. If only we could unfuck the orthography…

awareness than LLM’s were or are, and anyone who looked seriously at what they were from the start and wasn’t invested (literally financially, if not emotionally) in hyping these things up, knew it was obvious that LLM’s were not and never would be the road to AGI.

It was a total blackbox that absorbed common sense knowledge which had been coveted in AI for a half-century, and that kept passing new tests as it scaled up. It was not obvious it would stop getting smarter. I have no financial interest in LLMs, I don’t use them much and I fully expect they’re as good as they’ll get, now.

Comparing it to a videogame AI is nonsense. How much do you know about the inner workings involved?

Do you want to leave the house? (And can you sustainably never leave the house)

What about LineageOS?

It’s tiny enough I have no associations with it. And OP is a new account - maybe a throwaway.

Most people agree with them IRL, though, so it’s not like it’s shocking to hear from any corner of the internet.

Man, did you choose the wrong instance for this take.

It’s not clear people are any dumber. People have always been dumb, and “everyone’s getting dumber” has always been a popular take - it used to be about too much TV; much earlier Plato blamed poetry.

I do see it wrecking people’s mental health and burning up their time and money. And that’s not even getting into how much power we’ve handed these companies over our devices and personal information in the process.