<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> error: infinite recursion detected</p>

<p>Moreover, Ravenna was the capital of the Western Empire for a while (until the formal end in 476; from memory, for about half a century).</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> It might have &quot;AI legs&quot; going all over the place seemingly at random but failing to actually propel anything anywhere &quot;forward&quot; aside from more copyright infringement and planet-frying fossil fuel consumption. But ... who&#39;s counting? It&#39;s progress! Damn it!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> </p><p>I’m still curious about the various projects that seek to physically simulate mammalian brains (including eventually human brains) at various levels of resolution (all the way down to networks of neurons).</p><p>If consciousness is entirely in the topology of the connections and the firing thresholds of the neurons, there’s nothing in principle stopping this from working (that “if” is doing a lot of heavy lifting though, and I’m not qualified to speak on this at all really).</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> because it’s just not cricket!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@tealeg" class="u-url mention">@<span>tealeg</span></a></span> Because they&#39;re a type of cricket?!?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> It must, without legs how does one kick start anything?</p>

<p>What we all really want to know: does this idea have legs?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> why don’t grasshoppers play baseball?</p>