istewart

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[–] istewart@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago

LOTR fans stay losing

[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

Strong suspicion that the "interim co-CEOs" bit is leading to an attempted sell-off/spin-off of the chip fabs (which are the part of the company getting the nice juicy government subsidies)

[–] istewart@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But we suspect Extropic is just burning through the $14 million and will go broke within a year or two, if that. We look forward to Verdon’s “our fabulous journey” post.

This guy seems like the type to totally skip that, embezzle the last million or two, and go straight for "messianic cult in the woods." Possibly with a side order of "amateur experimental stimulant laboratory"

[–] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is a peculiar sort of faith movement, where the central devotional practice is wandering around pulling made-up probability estimates out of one's ass

[–] istewart@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago

The eventual war crimes trials will very likely reveal that "AI targeting" has already been used as an accountability sink for a premeditated ethnic cleansing policy in Gaza.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you asked people what they wanted, they would say a car that drives itself

[–] istewart@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Two posts in two weeks about professors using ChatGPT has me questioning my desire to go back to school

[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

all your barsk are belong to us

[–] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

I got a really nice omnibus edition of Blindsight/Echopraxia that was printed in the UK, but ultimately, the necessarily(?) cardboard nature of the vampire character in Echopraxia was what left me cold. The first chapter or two are some of the most densely-packed creative sci-fi ideas I've ever read, but I came to the book looking for more elaboration on the vampires, and didn't really get that. Valerie remains an inscrutable other. The most memorable interaction she has is when she's breaking her arm and making the POV character guy reset it, seemed like she was hitting on him?

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

6G nanometer-wave, gently caressing your mitochondria thanks to the power of antiferromagnets and BORIS:

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wait for AI and Crypto 2.0 to burn out, we'll get there

[–] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

Has this person turned up shilling their book on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory yet? If not, I think it's a lock for 2025

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