istewart

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

So, with Mr. Yudkowsky providing the example, it seems that one can practice homeopathy with "engineering mindset?"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Folks may want to close OpenAI accounts if they don’t want Oracle billing them someday.

geez, at least spoiler-tag a jump-scare this big

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Bruce Wayne asserts to Alfred in The Dark Knight that "Batman has no limits." But what if, and this has gone totally unconsidered by anyone up until now... Buttman also has no limits????

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Central Preference Vector seems like a fantastic band name if some producer was trying to mainstream industrial music

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It helps sanewash their own prejudices. "See, this guy could be talked down from the worst of it, aren't we reasonable by comparison?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're going to be headline sponsors of Fyre Festival II

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

lol wow, I'm cackling at Gackle. Perhaps we can call his brand of caping for polo-shirt fascism "gackin' off"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Once again, the Yuddites pine for MODOK

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why not just make the refrigerator itself a robot

Mobile kegerator for tailgating/festivals might be able to pull Boston Dynamics outta the shit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Never got too deep into Hossenfelder, but I gradually got the impression that Woit was taking a bit of an online-influencer tack, even starting before influencers were really a thing. The whole "not even wrong" flap seemed to draw in people who wanted to have strong opinions about high-energy physics and string theory without really studying them in any detail.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

If we're casting eugenics warriors, at least Ricardo Montalban had some bodacious pecs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Quantum computing will enable the AGI to entangle with all surrounding molecular vibrations! I saw another press release today

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