V0ldek @ V0ldek @awful.systems

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A lot of what Biden did was based on the wide margins the executive had. But now with Chevron deference dead people can sue those efforts and will win via the 5th Circuit or SCOTUS, because they're institutions bought by people who most vehemently hate antitrust laws. Similar reasoning applies to right-to-repair efforts.

In other words, USA will never have nice things unless Harris pulls off a major court reform.

You’re just being asked to be thoughtful before opening your mouth. Is that so awful?

Mate you're basically denying the whole identity of a certain kind of poster, if opening their mouth required thoughtfullness they'd be forever silent and turn to dust

oh god, I'm gonna have to make part 2 aren't I

Damn, I thought it was some arxiv-style place where you could upload anything and get a DOI, but this is a concentrated effort to make very specific brain farts look semi-legitimate.

Ye, it's in the paper lulz

Ignoring pseudoscientific interest in a topic, we can observe that in addition to several noted thinkers who have explicitly shared their probability of belief with regards to living in a simulation (ex. Elon Musk >99.9999999% [54]

cosmic gated community

If I am actually an insufferble rich asshole that willingly put myself into the simulation because I was afraid Those People were coming for my precious bodily fluids then I insist I am let out of this so I can dutifully shoot myself in my stupid real face.

It only shows it like that to you because it's your password.

To have the confidence of a white CS undergrad...

It’s just looking for a God or an afterlife without turning to religion.

I think that's a bingo, the sentence saying "in historical context this is essentially like religions and afterlife" I sneered at is an inadvertent slip on the author's side. He seems entirely oblivious that his position is "Rapture, but for nerds, and it's totally real this time because we did rationalism and Bayes on it." Or he's totally conscious that it's his position but is actually convinced by that flimsy rationalisation, which sounds honestly worse.

Just in case: I do not consent to be in the simulation.

Oh shiiii zoop

Great, now a student will be able to plagiarise the very TA that's reading their paper, can't fucking wait for the first time I read my own words back at me without proper citation.

I wanted to sneer at this, but it very quickly outgrew a Stubsack comment, so, enjoy, this is what you made me do

https://awful.systems/post/2059051

In another episode of "anyone can upload a PDF and call it a paper mate, they don't even check"...

What the hell is "Seeds of Science"? Is that some weird arxiv thingy that also gives you a logo at the top?

do I cancel those who favor tougher price controls on pharma? After all, they may be inducing millions of premature deaths

Wh.. What? Does favouring seatbelts also induce millions of premature deaths, because of... because of what? What the actual fuck dude?

If they had a machine that could reliably decide the truth value of an arbitrary proposition, then they could foof us all to roboheaven ASAP.

Damn bro, they're gonna hate this Turing fellow once they learn he crushed their dreams OVER SEVEN EIGHT DECADES AGO

EDIT: someone pointed out I suck at arithmetic

I'd much rather have a technology that allows some specific people to keep their shit inside, without spilling it for all of us to see. @TheBigYud

Can AI give you diarrhea?

Already does make me nauseous, so...

Kinda funny that they write thousand page essays with detailed reasons on why to vote for a person who can't read more than two sentences without getting distracted by a ketchup bottle.

with advanced near-perfect lie detection

how the fuck would that work mate, just give me a glimpse of your notes on how a legendarily useless and unworkable forensic technique would become "near-perfect" with GPUs.

I guess my brain tweaked the story into something a little bit less bleak in self-defense.