jonhendry

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[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago

Doh! Should have read the full Wikipedia article.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Pfft. Real hoopy froods play Heroclix.

I do not play Heroclix but I bought some about 20 years ago.

Jesus christ 20 years? Huh. Also I didn't notice but it was discontinued in 2008.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah that was my read of the game from my first exposure to it. "You have to buy cards sight-unseen hoping to get good ones? That's a scam."

It's like they looked at Dungeons and Dragons product churn and thought "No, that's not shitty enough"

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

The Auryn project has a sub-project called North Star, founded by a VC partner, and a Bain Capital veteran, among others.

The whole thing gives me the ick.

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

Books would be really boring if the protagonists were all just the author speaking as themself but using various funny voices.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Shovels that are less and less competitive over time.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

Perhaps that's part of why so many SV types are backing Trump. Grifting off Trump may be their fallback after the AI bubble collapses.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

Welcome to Alcor Towers.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someone send Roko a copy of James K. Morrow's novel "Towing Jehovah" which involves the enormous corpse of God being towed, by a (much smaller) oil tanker, from near the Equator north to a fijord for burial in a cave. (I lost interest toward the end).

It's not strictly relevant - I don't think the crew sets up on the corpse itself - but it'd be fun to watch where Roko's head goes.

"Step One: We kill God. Step Two: We harvest the cadaver, plastinate it, and build our city."

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

A million red-hot tungsten balls.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

Just program the godlike AI to turn everything into pykrete instead of paperclips.

Problem solved.

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

I haven't seen the details but apparently Apple may not be paying OpenAI for the ChatGPT functionality. So macOS may not be using ChatGPT heavily.

 

The authors said on Twitter that they aren't EA's, but they surveyed people at valley AI companies to write the report, so it's probably quite influenced by EAs.

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