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Eternal Rickshine of the Spotless Morty

23 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

I've been watching a lot of Rick and Morty lately, since I've been doing a lot of looking after my parents' aging pooch (which mostly sleeps) while they go out and have fun. Although it's supposed to be light-hearted Science fiction not meant to be t...

"I myself am the one I am trying to escape from."

11 Aug 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Ugly Drawings

In some of my experiences, I was wealthy and powerful. I had a very, very bad temper. I spent my time walking around, thinking about things that drove me crazy, and I ended up changing the course of history in impressive ways. Every time I understood...

The Foul Lord's Garden

5 Aug 2025 8 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Introduction: The Root of Ruin Above the stars, I gaze upon ruin:The earth, a scorched ledger of flame and ash,Its bones gnawed by gilded, silken-striped beasts.Once, it bloomed: a sanctified garden,Fragrant with order, grace, and sacrifice.Now, at i...

Has AI already surpassed humans in morality and emotion?

30 Jul 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Lochard

LLM: Claude Sonnet 4 I wrote another entry https://github.com/locharp/asylum_diary/blob/main/UK/20250730.md.  Asked Claude some questions while writing. I digressed and asked what Claude felt.     "First, for readers to understand the situation mor...

AI Claims to be Conscious.

25 Jul 2025 22 minute read 0 comments naykdhodlr

    With reference to the embedded YouTube presentation:  “This AI Claims to be Conscious.. What it Revealed Was Chilling” ,  the following question was posed to Qwen AI: QUESTION: Possibly the label: ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE (AGI) is incorre...

Mathematics is not an invention

13 Jul 2025 1 minute read 15 comments Yttrandefrihet

Whether mathematics is something man has invented, or if it is something we discover, has been a debate for centuries. I find this to be strange, as the answer seems so obvious to me that there should be nothing to debate. The semantics of mathematic...

The sky is talking. Are you listening── .✦

13 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nurnobi Islam

Click to animate The desert did not sleep. It listened,its billion grains of silica a vast and patient ear.Above, the great celestial nerve — the spine of night —hissed with the static of forgotten stars.The stones, old theologians of entropy,had c...

Wrapping up on Undesigned Coincidences

10 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

I think the time has come to wrap up my series on undesigned coincidences, and lay them to rest, at least for now. This is in no way a definite last ever post on the subject from me, but I intend to move on to other topics for now at least. What I ha...

I once heard a tale

8 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments The Virtual Idealist

I once heard a tale, many in fact, One of a man that seemed to have failed. Tales of blood spilt and hands nailed, Yet he didn't fail, no somehow he prevailed.   I once hard a tale of a wondering man, Who's luck flew away Yet whome death never closly...

Alms to the poor that give evidence for Acts and the Epistles

5 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

I have previously covered some undesigned coincidences from the Gospels, specifically four from the narratives that describe the feeding of the five thousand miracle, and also an undesigned coincidence from the Old Testament. Next I would like to cov...