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by yawpitch 2y ago
Having seen Thiel speaking in person, the most important lesson seems to be surround yourself with sycophants, vacuously nodding yes-men, and roided-up security bears with a certain level of rugged homoerotic attractiveness, then say noth
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Technical debt is too generous a term for what was fundamentally flawed by design, never tested in the first place, allowed to be perpetually unmaintained (and unmaintainable), and was always completely unable to withstand the first motivat
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by yawpitch 2y ago
It makes sweating, salivating, and sneezing illegal — well, except in some fairly esoteric and scientifically implausible circumstances — but it’s considerably more well-reasoned than every executive order we’ve had, or can expect, from the
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Rabid hedgehog someone is actively trying to sodomize. It won’t give me that answer, but that’s because it’s wrong.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
It’s more accurate to describe it as a chicken-heated nuclear bomb. The power is still, very much, in the plutonium.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Ahh, the assumption that his second term will end.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Controversy that exists solely in the hopelessly deluded, but controversy nonetheless.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
In other news, Elon Musk was a human.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> I don’t believe this really Ahh, but then, if it were true, you wouldn’t.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Might want to disambiguate “nothing” too… just as in the poem lots of things happened to lots of people; lives started and lives ended, fortunes were made and fortunes were lost, and even if nothing else happened the end of democracy crept
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Probably an AI translation artifact, but there are several usages of “other than on [XYZ]” that really should be “unlike on [XYZ]”.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
admiration++ for responsiveness in adding the email option.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Is it just me or does that title sound like the setup to a joke not-quite-AGIs will be telling each other in the future?
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Do you really except anything else from this confederacy of dumbasses?
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Not Doug Trumbull, it was John Whitney Jr and Gary Demos at Information International Inc (Triple-I) who did the Westworld “android vision” effect. https://web.archive.org/web/20120717074134/http://www.be
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Interesting how “interviewed” and “publicly fellated” can be so easily confused.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
People who want a messiah always see the messiah as imminent. Of course the problem here being AGI would emphatically not be a/the messiah… LLMs will not lead to a AGI. Now, LLMs may be sufficiently capable to have us, eventual
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Cue suicidal evangelist in 3…2…
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Is this really any different than what brokerages have been doing for years? Oh, sorry, actual rats.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Your consciousness is also capable of convincing you that the table in front of you is only a simulation, that it doesn’t really exist. Now, smack your simulated head into that simulated table as hard as you can, and your simulated body w
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Actual title is “Introduction to the FIX Protocol for Developers”, the protocol isn’t unknown, and it’d be better if this wasn’t really just a self-promotion piece for a TypeScript library.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
That’s about 20 liters more than strictly necessary, but I guess if you need 8 changes of clothes.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Don’t forget its thrilling sequel, “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus, Again”.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> The European Commission […] targeted users who weren't interested in keywords like: Qatargate, brexit, Marine Le Pen, Alternative für Deutschland, Vox, Christian, Christian-phobia or Giorgia Meloni. The clear intention was to on
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Did Star Trek not already warn us about this one?
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Aww, and I remember when Modo was just being born. It’s a shame there isn’t even the thought of open sourcing something rather than just building atop the mountain of abandonware.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
So, realistically, every continent is an old pet cemetery, Antarctica is just the newest, bleakest, coldest, and driest. It’s also been the least accessible, making it historically impossible to resupply, in turn making it non-colonizable u
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Interesting disinformation-by-title edit there: “House committee reveals where [it believes] COVID originated from [after years-long] investigation”. Also the things that group of nutters purport to believe, both individually and in aggrega
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> Strangely few of them leave. There is a lot of "grass is greener" in British pessimism about their country. Talk to your average kid stuck in 90% of the one-time industrial towns north of London and the grass isn’t just green
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Suppose I should have been clearer, perhaps that should have read “where these people eventually want to remain ”, as in live for the rest of their lives, ie be immigrants instead of merely temporary expats (which should never bother a n

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