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Lightcone is so outraged at the Guardian article that they have started a prediction market about it (manifold.markets)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [M] to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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WE DEMAND A CORRECTION TO uh various minor nitpicks

also we swear we totally didn't get your email

bonus from thread:

I am having a lot of fun on Manifold, but if the team insists on inviting eugenics speakers to conferences, its probably time for me to leave :-/

What exactly is your objection to people exercising their bodily autonomy to implement voluntary eugenics?

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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Is the header image on that page an intentional joke at the expense of GenAI, or did someone seriously make that and add it to the page? Do they autogenerate their pics?

a generated image of an open newspaper that says the guardian in one page and contovicsy on the other, in front of some monstrous microscope and a distorted chessboard and a chess piece in an orb

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    i think they honestly think this shit is cool

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    The more I look, the more I'm sure it's just bad GenAI art. I mean, look at the random Big Ben with newspaper art extending into the ether behind it, the off-center knight-in-orb, the decomposed microscope thing, the physically impossible structural shadow on the disproportionate globe that simultaneously shows from Panama east to Borneo but somehow lacks India...

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    New Zealand has entered the chat

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Do you think it was NZ? I kept trying to figure out what it was but because India was missing I was really unclear. I also guessed “extremely large New Guinea.”

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    iirc (and rough neuron lookup here:) there’s a longstanding issue with entertainment etc mapmakers that leave NZ out of their maps

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