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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago

sometimes a thread breaks containment, the "all" algorithm feeds it to even more people, and we see that Lemmy really does replace Reddit

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

here's another version of the same sketch

a machine is constructed in the form of a pretty lady to present you with a magical answer and the answer is a lie too

and the hand is empty and the style is retro pop art of a comforting past that never existed

now what could the incredibly obvious symbolism here mean, why all these choices

hope our poster never goes to an art gallery, could be fatal

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nougat wants to fuck the robot and blames the robot for this

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I remind you that the original folk song is a fucking banger and nerds have only heard the worst version in the world

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that this one or a different instance of the same bug?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

good to see the quality posts from dbzero are back tho

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

apparently came toward him shouting "I'M GONNA BEAT YOUR ASS"

hence the family stressing what a good Christian he was

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago (5 children)

https://xcancel.com/GuiveAssadi/status/1920232405324955825

Steven Pinker: I've been part of some not so successful attempts to come up with secular humanist substitutes for religion.

Interviewer: What is the worst one you've been involved in?

Steven Pinker: Probably the rationalist solstice in Berkeley, which included hymns to the benefits of global supply chains. I mean, I actually completely endorse the lyrics of the song, but there's something a bit cringe about the performance.

from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTVJjmabaas which nobody should watch, obviously

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

yeah looks like I'm thankfully wrong!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

reheated gaming moments

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

most, Sony still has them

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

does anyone know who the company who did the AI video was? This reeks of PR.

 

As spotted by @mountainriver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXc9-oD_iFo - video

 

Thinking about how the arsing fuck to explain the rationalists to normal people - especially as they are now a loud public problem along multiple dimensions.

The problem is that it's all deep in the weeds. Every part of it is "it can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong."

With bitcoin, I have, over the years, simplified it to being a story of crooks and con men. The correct answer to "what is a blockchain and how does it work" is "it's a way to move money around out of the sight of regulators" and maybe "so it's for crooks and con men, and a small number of sincere libertarians" and don't even talk about cryptography or technology.

I dunno what the one sentence explanation is of this shit.

"The purpose of LessWrong rationality is for Yudkowsky to live forever as an emulation running on the mind of the AI God" is completely true, is the purpose of the whole thing, and is also WTF.

Maybe that and "so he started what turned into a cult and a series of cults"? At this point I'm piling up the absurdities again.

The Behind The Bastards approach to all these guys has been "wow these guys are all so wacky haha and also they're evil."

How would you first approach explaining this shit past "it can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong"?

[also posted in sneer classic]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7DZZuCi95o - video

my delivery was near perfect on this video, i'm very pleased

 

yeah i'm sure Matt Levine, qntm and Wildbow are gonna be champing at the bit to attend wordy racist fest

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