Kurzweil actually liked the warp 10 lizard sex episode -- pass it on

Artemis III is going to be so embarrassing, isn't it. Next summer they're supposed to link up with a lunar lander-configuration Starship (and also Bezos' company's slightly more reasonable lander design) in orbit as a proof-of-concept.

Not that Altman's company is ahead in the AI coding race, but everyone's PCs will still need increasing amounts of DRAM to be able to run the next generation of slop-coded JavaScript apps.

Yeah, I've read a few stories in the past year or two that updated suspiciously rapidly and weren't terribly well written. But overall the culture there is against AI generation.

Tesla Semi went up in flames on I-880 in the Bay Area: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/tesla-semi-fire-i880-hayward-traffic/4165797/

Between this and the carload of freshly manufactured Teslas that burned to the ground on the Grapevine on I-5 last year, that seems like only one (1) freeway-closing big-rig related explosion per year. That's not so bad, right?

Also - is the coivd lab leak conspiracy nonsense STILL a shibboleth among this bunch? Just because it underscores their ideas about Researchers Have To Be Careful?

I feel like it plays to their aesthetic, which is partly built on their insecurities. Oh, humans aren't smart enough to handle all this advanced research (read: very few of these people were committed enough to get bio or chem degrees, let alone follow through with research careers), but the superintelligent AI surely will be able to! If we submit to the AI god now, it will make up for the gaping voids of meaning and skill inside ourselves.

Too bad our old friend Kirk Johnson couldn't make it in

Mountain View is part of the Bay Area.

one of the most damning sentences in the whole post, really

The ease and comfort of Liquid Ass

Some of these people have so thoroughly blended their brains into a post-ironic slurry that I can't be sure they even really know what they believe anymore. roon seems like a good example of this, every time he comes up lately.

I haven't checked in on Naval Ravikant in a couple years, has he just handed his feed over to a chatbot at this point?

Oh so it's just more bad fanfiction then

Welcome to the project, my friend. The dream is within reach