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The interminable length has got to have started out as a gullibility filter before ending up as an unspoken imperative to be taken seriously in those circles

Only in these circles could an article that AI can read to you in an hour and forty-eight minutes be clickbait for the paywalled “companion piece.”

Hard to know if “Contovicsy” is an AI in-joke or a Grauniad in-joke. Or neither.

Paying 20-somethings to have orgies on the beach in Bali is a form of charity, if their laptops are nearby.

Starting a wall of text with a non sequitur is a bold strategy. I cannot follow his 9/11 logic at all.

One of these things is not like the others. (my bulleting)

We also understand the serious risks posed by these technologies. These risks range from

• the further entrenchment of existing inequalities, to
• manipulation and misinformation, to
• the loss of control of autonomous AI systems potentially resulting in human extinction.

Edit3: I’ve never seen a three-piece suit with dungarees. It’s the mullet of suits: business on the top, party on the bottom.

I came here the other day to post this. Just bizarre.

Decoding the Gurus did an episode on this stuff. Imagine anti-vax hipsters with extreme vocal fry and self-diagnosis of autism.

Red Scare: Bohemian Hipsterism x Reactionary Tradcaths

“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen.

10/10, no notes

I read it the same way, but he is quite pretentiousness.

I came here to write that, after listening to lo-fi Yudkowski, that I want to destroy my speakers lest they ever do that again.

Oh, this guy Bryan seems like a real prize.

Existing toys for men are dead, limp, flaccid, gay …

… we’re going to take non-reproductive sex with human women off the table as a commodity. It’s gone. Can’t trade money for it. Can’t trade a meal for it…"

Every scientist I know is always going on and on about how the Overton Window is about to shift on their field of study. This is how serious work gets done, by measuring public opinion.

It’s a lousy bit, because if you’re going to do a goddamn “crocus” joke about hundreds of people being shot at a concert, you should obviously make the pun about Swiss heavy metal legends “Krokus.”

I know someone that met their long-term partner in the chat of words with friends.

EA is not a religion. Anyway, here are some pros / cons to marrying outside the religion.

…the less committed end of the EA spectrum (do you sneak dairy products when no one’s looking? fantasize about owning a yacht?)

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a yacht to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Also was I just shamed by someone who was in the environmentally horrifying bitcoin industry for keeping dry milk in my cupboard? No thank you.

For the win!

Most notably, he cropped the graph on the “ourworldindata” website - the annual average appears below all of those charts, and quite obviously line go up. I took his Sweden chart into excel and added a trend line just to make it all on one chart.

At the risk of kind of picking around the edges here … something caught my eye in #5:

Michael successfully alerted me to the fact that crime has risen by a factor of ten over the past century, which seems REALLY IMPORTANT and nobody else is talking about it and it seems like the sort of thing that more people than just Michael should be paying attention to.

This claim is ridiculous. The homicide rate in the US was something like 30 or 40 per 100,000 people in colonial times, reducing every century, and it’s around 5 right now, since the increase from the 1960s - 1990s has gone back down.

Maybe, in the past 100 years, we have passed so many bajillion new statutes that it has increased crime tenfold, but that’s not what the reactionaries are saying at all.

Eschewing the mainstream use of language and formatting is a sign of genius.