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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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Joined August 2009

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Neil Clark

      So do you wear shoes orhttps://twitter.com/NeilClark66/status/1288749791556644864 …

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      Neil ClarkVerified account @NeilClark66
      If masks were necessary for our survival as a species we would have evolved one by now. We haven’t. We have noses and mouths. We have airways. It is not natural for people to go around with face masks on in their general life. And no amount of govt propaganda can change that. https://twitter.com/EmmaRoulstone/status/1288745915768082433 …
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020

      I always feel like pointing out that the human race actually did almost die out Population crashed down to less than 100,000 individuals maybe 75k years ago or so If evolution is your benchmark for successful design then the human body as a whole is pretty unsuccessful

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020

      The exciting version of this theory is that this population bottleneck is what led to "behaviorally modern" humanity The human body was a failed experiment, including the big, heavy useless human brain, until the brain relatively suddenly bootstrapped new software

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020

      Everything actually successful about us comes from that big fat brain, and the kludges that allow our otherwise pretty shitty bodies to run that unlicensed jailbroken software

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020

      To sloppily assign telos to evolution - humans are a failed experiment in making chimps too big and tall The "licensed software" we ran on for millions of years was for specific functions to take advantage of being bigger and taller - rock throwing, hitting things with sticks

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020

      Overall, this experiment wasn't worth it Throwing things doesn't help that much The better vision and hardwired math engine and whatnot is incredibly costly to run, we eat too much, we take to long to grow up Too many chips on a motherboard that can't support it, a mistake

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020

      I mean lots and lots of our hominid ancestors died because they're less efficient than chimps We almost died We eventually made it because of that random bootstrapping - the brain developing a true complete natural language, and with it abstraction

      3:32 PM - 2 Aug 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020

          Everything else comes from that "Machines are our one advantage, compared to everything we lack for not being strong like rhinos or fast like cheetahs or able to fly like eagles" is an old, reductive take But even comparing us to other primates it's true

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020

          Don't be ungrateful about how technology is "unnatural" and bad, it's literally the only reason we're here We're like a circuit board from an obsolete smart thermostat someone hacked to be a Turing-complete platform

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020

          "You took a perfectly good monkey and gave it anxiety, etc" You plugged all these peripherals into the circuit board of a thermostat and you're running Linux on it and doing word processing and linear regressions and playing Doom and whatnot while smoke comes out of the box

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        1. Val Syverson‏ @vjpsyverson 2 Aug 2020
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          Hey, don't forget all the other hominids though

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        2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 2 Aug 2020
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          arguably the key feature of humanity isn't abstract thought in some exalted sense, but the ability to cooperate, and especially /to do what you're told/

          1 reply 1 retweet 25 likes
        3. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 2 Aug 2020
          Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect

          most other species, each new animal has to start learning the world from scratch, each time the thing about humans is, someone else can figure out how to do X, and then tell you, and you don't have to figure it out yourself or even really understand it you just do X now

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        1. phyphor‏ @phyphor 2 Aug 2020
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          Living long enough, in large groups, to pass on learned knowledge. Octopuses are smart but live for only a few years, and mostly solitary.

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        1. (((Barak)))‏ @lawnerdbarak 2 Aug 2020
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          (I think this bootstrap is likely the Great Filter, fwiw)

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