#intelligence-quotes

[thepersonalwords]

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[quotelr]

If you feed a bird, you don't have to force it to come to you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[lilislegacy]

percy: *intensely watching the news, waiting to hear about something he may have caused*

piper: come on percy, come eat with us. you’ve been sitting there waiting for hours. if something happens, you’ll hear about it eventually. a watched pot never boils

percy, distractedly: yeah and an ignored one boils over

piper: that-

piper, turning to annabeth in confusion: have i been spending too much time with him or is that one of the most logical things i’ve ever heard someone say?

[noosphe-re]

"There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?' And someone else said, 'A poor choice of words in 1954'," he says. "And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the '50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we're having now." So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics. "It's genuinely amazing that...these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text," he says. But, in his view, that doesn't make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, "but no one wants to use that term, because it's not as sexy".

'The machines we have now are not conscious', Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023

[ahb-writes]

(from The Mitchells vs. the Machines, 2021)

[knightofleo]

Angela Orosco Silent Hill 2

[philosophybits]

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

[mindfulstudyquest]

intelligent girls are attractive. believe in a good education. learn to speak in another language and know what's going on in the world.

[bittsandpieces]

politically I'm anti gun. but sexually? put it in my mouth and flick the safety off

[funeral]

Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil

[thepersonalwords]

Faith moves mountains, intelligence goes over them, wisdom goes around them, but love levels them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[remnant-emblemeer]

Sylvain Jose Gautier you will never beat the depression allegations if you keep saying shit like this

[achromatophoric]

Alternate take on the scene from Episode 4, where the girls stand before Hawt Kewture.

Wednesday: You’re a gazelle. I’m a wounded fawn. Cut me loose and go run with the pack.

Enid: *squints at Wednesday*

Enid: Are you being for real right now?

Wednesday: What?

Enid: Your metaphors suck big hairy minotaur balls.

Wednesday: *glares* My metaphors do not—

Enid: FIRST of all, gazelle don’t move in packs, they move in herds.

Wednesday: Well—

Enid: Secondly, what the heck is a baby DEER doing in the same place as a freaking gazelle? Hmm? Hmm??

Wednesday: They—

Enid: MAYBE if you’re a Barbary stag—which are like the ONLY deer in Africa—but those live in forests, while gazelle are all about semi-arid savannas and stuff.

Wednesday: But—

Enid: *throws up her hands* FINE! If you wanna be pedantic…

Enid: *takes a deep breath*

Enid: There’s like Cuvier’s gazelle living in some of the same regions as Barbary stag, namely Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia—

Enid: —but they don’t even inhabit the same KIND of forests, which would be pine for Cuvier’s gazelle and oak for the Barbary stag—

Enid: —so there’s like totally no reason for me to have MET your supposedly wounded ass, let alone abandon it for my herd—

Enid: —which means your analogy, as I stated earlier—

Enid: *pokes Wednesday’s shoulder with each word* —sucks big–hairy–minotaur–balls!

Wednesday:

Wednesday: *owlish blink*

Enid: *crosses her arms* Well?

Wednesday: *opens her mouth to speak*

Enid: And don’t you DARE say we’re in a zoo.

Wednesday: *shuts her mouth with a click*

Wednesday:

Wednesday: *grudgingly* I stand corrected.

Enid: *beams* Well, don’t.

Wednesday: *furrows brow* Don’t what?

Enid: Just stand there.

Wednesday: I don’t underst—

Enid: *ensnares Wednesday’s hand* Because we have SHOPPING to do~!

Wednesday: 😦

Enid: 😈

Enid: *drags her wounded prey into the store*

Wednesday: ☹️

[lilislegacy]

piper: after everything you two have been through over the last 25 years, what are the most terrifying and brutal beasts you guys have ever faced?

everyone leaning in, ready for a good story:

percy: oh that would be our children

annabeth: *nodding slowly with wide eyes as she has flashbacks*

[gabihime-jegulusseeker]

regulus incorrect quotes

Sirius: Sooooo do you have a crush on anybody???

Regulus: The only crush I have is this crushing anxiety

Regulus: oh, and your best friend

Sirius: YOU HAVE A CRUSH ON MOONY?

Regulus:.... you know what? I'm going to leave and let you figure out that one on your own