The car’s a Tesla, isn’t it?
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- JohnBierce@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•How to explain our very good friends to normal humans?English4·4 months ago
- JohnBierce@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•Scoots hot new AGI goss just dropped, Trump loses 3rd election to Grok in stunning upsetEnglish8·4 months ago
Oh lord one of my less online friends posted this in a group chat. Love that group, but I am NOT happy about having to read so much of Scott’s writing again to explain the various ways it’s loony.
- JohnBierce@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•That tracing woodgrains peice on David Gerard is outEnglish14·1 year ago
Neoreaction: A Basilisk really is great, you definitely should tackle it soon!
- JohnBierce@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•Lightcone is so *outraged* at the Guardian article that they have started a prediction market about itEnglish8·1 year ago
Has anyone checked for kernels of corn growing behind their ears?
- JohnBierce@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Remember how ChatGPT totally aced the bar exam? Wow! yeah, turns out that was just a lieEnglish12·1 year ago
Me, about to suggest some actually really good, thought provoking Marvel comics that somehow got made alongside the relentless superhero soap opera: oh wait now isn’t the time, we’re dunking on the AI bro
- JohnBierce@awful.systemstoNotAwfulTech@awful.systems•"It’s sad that DeepDream is technically abandonware. I did some work on porting it to a webservice in a Docker container last summer, it’s history worth keeping"English1·1 year ago
RIP digital drug trip, you were actually pretty cool
- JohnBierce@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•The whole internet loves Kagi, a lovely paid search engine that can find things! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the CEO is an unhinged narcissist who will harangue you in emailEnglish11·1 year ago
It’s like the classic comic “we should improve society somewhat!” “And yet you participate in society!”
- JohnBierce@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•"Why I'm no longer a White Nationalist." Neoreactionary blogger goes to live in Red America just like he always dreamed. What followed will shock you!English1·1 year ago
Ayuuuuuuuup. Movable feast is a great term for it. Even once formerly ostracized groups get permitted into the in-group, their membership is strictly conditional on serving the interests of those closer into the center of the Whiteness construct. Stop being useful, watch how fast the old hate rears its ugly head again.
- JohnBierce@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•We started a charity to alleviate wild fish suffering. We spent $30k trying to contact fish farmers via email. This didn't work, so we gave up. We consider the project a success.English1·1 year ago
How delightfully ineffective
(Seriously, what has Effective Altruism ever accomplished beyond buying castles?)
Of course!