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your #1 source for absurdist true crime
I toot as I please
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oh hey I'm in this one
youtube comment: > The funniest part is the part where the so-called "alignment problem" is just slavery.
Thomas Leer: All About You 12"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E20ewjGsKM
one of the obvious hits on Pillows & Prayers, I didn't hear the 12" version until much later
and here's the b-side instrumental version https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dM9pP302M-M
gosh who could have predicted that precisely this would happen […]
"We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology." Sam Altman
Monthly creation of new AI bad debt slows, as lenders wonder if they're issuing just a bit too much in future defaults
https://app.ft.com/content/9c13d40e-d2b2-45d5-921c-a68cd4b308f9
> AI-related debt issuance globally dropped to $23bn in September, less than half the amount raised in the […]
[poverty, question about services]
#Iowa #UnitedStates question:
Would love some advice from people better at being poor than I am. Has anyone successfully submitted a #medicaid work requirement attestation? When I did they canceled my plan entirely, spent the next month trying to get it back […]
the rationalist subculture was quite upfront about its desire for fuckable catgirls in the 2000s
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Py3uGnncqXuEfPtQp/interpersonal-entanglement
archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20090818192256/http://lesswrong.com/lw/xt/interpersonal_entanglement/
yudkowsky […]
you see this in the open source world, where the loud shitass techbros are taking up all the air and making any pushback impossible
@atax1a 200%
thinking about that one person in a friend's mentions who, when they found out that our friend was quoting us, publicly told our friend that we were "a jerk to them for no known reason" and, like, no, we guarantee you that there was a reason. trying to sow dissent against us by appeal to gringa […]
ever think about how the proliferation of LLMs relies on the Politeness of white culture (officially, we have to say "toxic" because otherwise it upsets the gringos) and how it prevents the majority from "being rude" and saying this shit fucking sucks
> “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI,” Cage said Saturday during a panel on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con. “I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let […]
Robert X. Cringely (the main one, Mark Stephens) died recently, obituary now out https://www.hillandwood.com/obituaries/Mark-Stephens?obId=49806651
@sunhawk.bsky.social the Unabomber
blog comment: Principal: We wanted to see you because Claude is giving us some troubles. He’s been regularly cheating and lying, and more recently, shredding books from our library. He’s causing a lot of damage. Amodei: I don’t believe a word! Now sure, he’s a little sensible, like all gifted […]
“just one more prompt, bro!” by @davidgerard nails how chatbots implement the typical patterns of addictive design, with their stochastic responses working beautifully as selective reinforcement.
I approve of this method of proving humanity. Much better than asking me to tick all the boxes containing buses or whatever. (Seen at a UK National Archives survey)
if you have the UI mockup the software's 95% done right, you can dash off the stuff behind that in an afternoon right