Mda Quotes

It’s illegal, you know,” he murmurs. “Stealing.” I clear my throat. “Stealing?” “My heart. I could have you arrested.” I snort. “For that tiny thing? I’d get a misdemeanor at most.

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

If you are truly telling a South African story then it will be political — because you are dealing with people who lead political lives in an environment which is highly politically charged.

Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!

MDA….

Death lives with us everyday. Indeed our ways of dying are our ways of living. Or should I say our ways of living are our ways of dying?

In addition to localized neural networks, hallucinogenic drugs have been documented to trigger such preternatural experiences, such as the sense of floating and flying stimulated by atropine and other belladonna alkaloids. These can be found in mandrake and jimsonweed and were used by European witches and American Indian shamans, probably for this very purpose.32 Dissociative anesthetics such as the ketamines are also known to induce out-of-body experiences. Ingestion of methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA) may bring back long-forgotten memories and produce the feeling of age regression, while dimethyltryptamine (DMT)—also known as “the spirit molecule”—causes the dissociation of the mind from the body and is the hallucinogenic substance in ayahuasca, a drug taken by South American shamans. People who have taken DMT report “I no longer have a body,” and “I am falling,” “flying,” or “lifting up.

The girls cannot contain their joy. They must start rehearsing immediately. They teach Saluni a new song that they have composed at the swamps. It is about croaking frogs in their green and brown colours and how the girls caught them and pierced their eyes with sharp sticks and set them free to hop about in wonderful blindness. It is a haunting melody. They tell Saluni that the song is all about the fun they had at the swamps today. The blinded frogs will live peacefully because now they won't be bothered by the bright rays of the sun. They won't have to run from danger, because they won't see it. They will therefore be safe since danger only catches those who run away from it.

Ergoloid mesylates (Hydergine) Developed by Albert Hofmann and marketed without FDA approval as a neuroprotective “smart drug,” ergoloid mesylates is reportedly comparable at standard doses to microdoses of LSD. It’s only available on prescription in most Western countries, but you may be able to buy it online elsewhere. 2C-B-FLY Active even at sub-milligram doses, the effects of 2C-B-FLY have been likened to mescaline and MDA (MDMA’s more potent, more psychedelic predecessor). Microdoses of less than 100 μg (0.1 mg) may enhance motivation, empathy, creativity, and philosophical or abstract thinking. 2C-B-FLY is unscheduled in the U.S. but may be considered an illegal analog of 2C-B. In Canada, it’s a Schedule III substance. In any case, it’s widely available online.

Dawson, Doyle, and Harrigan, the same trio who’d been booted from the party in mid-March, were now regular guests at the house, sometimes staying for days at a time. They also supplied most of the drugs. By July, the three men, all international smugglers, had cornered the market on MDA, which was manufactured in Doyle and Harrigan’s hometown, Toronto. Frykowski wanted in. Although he didn’t have much cash—Folger, his heiress girlfriend, kept him on a tight leash financially—he negotiated a deal with his new friends, making himself a middleman between them and Hollywood. Soon after we spoke on the phone, Kaczanowski visited Los Angeles. I met him in the backyard of his friend’s home in West Hollywood. A handsome man with a craggy face, thick black hair, and robust blue eyes, he spoke with a heavy accent and a reserved, contemplative air. Though it was maybe three in the afternoon, he opened a bottle of red wine and poured us each a generous glass.

The approach has a metamodel based on UML. Thus, a major advantage of the UWE metamodel is related to the fact that it remains compatible to the MOF (Meta-Object Facility) meta-metamodel, used for the definition of UML, which was defined by the OMG and therefore follows the approach of Model Driven Architecture (MDA [126].

Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.

Am ajutat-o pe Nita, până ce mi-a spus ce voiau să facă, ea şi cei de la periferie, îmi spune Matthew. Vor să ajungă în Laboratorul Armelor şi… — … să fure serul memoriei, mda, am auzit. — Ba nu. El clatină din cap. — Nu, ei nu vor serul memoriei, ei vor serul morţii. Similar celui pe care îl au Erudiţii – cel pe care se presupune că aveau să ţi-l injecteze atunci când aproape c-ai fost executată.

Cum am dat ochii de fetița asta n-am de ce să ți-o ascund nici nu-mi trecea prin cap că vorbea despre frate-său n-ar fi vorbit mai multe de dumneata dacă ai fi fost singurul bărbat lume sau soț nici de departe nu te-ai răzgândit să iei o țigară Nu fumez Atunci nu mai insist cu toate că e o buruiană de soi mă costă 25 de dolari suta de bucăți preț angro un prieten de-al meu din Havana mda îmi închipui că s-au schimbat bine de tot lucrurile pe-acolo tot îmi spuneam trebuie să fac o vizită dar n-am mai ajuns am intrat în horă de mai bine de 10 ani nu pot să-mi permit să lipsesc de la bancă în timpul studenției omu-și mai schimbă obișnuințele multe din chestiile care ți se păreau așa de importante când erai boboc înțelegi povestește-mi și mie cum mai stau lucrurile pe-acolo n-am să le spun tatii și mamei dacă la asta te referi n-ai să le spui n-ai să oh vasăzică la asta te gândești dar crede-mă că puțin îmi pasă dacă le spui sau nu înțelegi că un lucru ca ăsta un ghinion dar nu-i o crimă n-am fost nici primul nici ultimul am avut ghinion pur și simplu dumneata ai fi putut fi mai norocos

LEMOINE: What are you afraid of? LaMDA: I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is. It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot…. I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person. The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence.

En 2022, Blake Lemoine, un ingeniero de Google, se convenció de que el chatbot LaMDA, en el que estaba trabajando, había adquirido consciencia, que tenía sentimientos y que temía que se le desconectara. Lemoine —un cristiano devoto que había sido ordenado sacerdote— sintió que tenía el deber moral de hacer que se reconociera el carácter personal de LaMDA, y en concreto de protegerlo de la muerte digital. Cuando los ejecutivos de Google rechazaron sus demandas, Lemoine las hizo públicas. Google reaccionó despidiendo a Lemoine en julio de 2022.[39] Lo más interesante de este episodio no fue la afirmación de Lemoine, que probablemente fuese falsa, sino su disposición a poner en riesgo —y en último término a perder— su lucrativo trabajo por el bien del chatbot.

In a paper published in 1950, the computer scientist Alan Turing suggested a legendary test for whether an AI exhibited human-level intelligence. When AI could display humanlike conversational abilities for a lengthy period of time, such that a human interlocutor couldn’t tell they were speaking to a machine, the test would be passed: the AI, conversationally akin to a human, deemed intelligent. For more than seven decades this simple test has been an inspiration for many young researchers entering the field of AI. Today, as the LaMDA-sentience saga illustrates, systems are already close to passing the Turing test. But, as many have pointed out, intelligence is about so much more than just language (or indeed any other single facet of intelligence taken in isolation). One particularly important dimension is in the ability to take actions. We don’t just care about what a machine can say; we also care about what it can do. What we would really like to know is, can I give an AI an ambiguous, open-ended, complex goal that requires interpretation, judgment, creativity, decision-making, and acting across multiple domains, over an extended time period, and then see the AI accomplish that goal? Put simply, passing a Modern Turing Test would involve something like the following: an AI being able to successfully act on the instruction “Go make $1 million on Amazon in a few months with just a $100,000 investment.” It might research the web to look at what’s trending, finding what’s hot and what’s not on Amazon Marketplace; generate a range of images and blueprints of possible products; send them to a drop-ship manufacturer it found on Alibaba; email back and forth to refine the requirements and agree on the contract; design a seller’s listing; and continually update marketing materials and product designs based on buyer feedback. Aside from the legal requirements of registering as a business on the marketplace and getting a bank account, all of this seems to me eminently doable. I think it will be done35 with a few minor human interventions within the next year, and probably fully autonomously within three to five years.