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Only had to scroll about halfway through the replies before I found somebody suggesting an SPAC

Puts their being a Thiel media op in an even more pathetic light.

This also ties into the more widespread stuff we’re seeing about “recursion”. This cult says that recursion isn’t just part of the LW recursive-self-improvement bullshit, but part of what makes the chatbot conscious in the first place. Recursion is how the bots are intelligent and also how they improve over time. More recursion means more intelligence.

Hmm, is it better or worse that they're now officially treating SICP as a literal holy book?

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Of course there has to be a permanent underclass that can only ever aspire to work in the service industry and will never harbor any hope of threatening my highly important thought leader job, that's the only way the world CAN work

The point about a static site generator being an ideal intro project is well-taken. I'm working my way through Practical Common Lisp right now, as it's recommended as one of the best CL intro books, and its intro project of an MP3 database is only barely relevant to me because I still have a stash of MP3s I started building up around the time of the book's original publication.

I struggle to imagine what might supplant the HTML generator suggestion in the future. If anything, its desirability is made more apparent by the proliferation of JS monoliths all over the Web. You can show students how quickly it renders compared to a corporate website or heavyweight social-media feed, use that as an introduction to performance considerations and profiling, introduce modularity by bolting on a more dynamic framework piece-by-piece...

Wronger explaining human sexual attraction

Are we sure this isn't an SCP entry?

Unironically, this was surely the primary design brief.

My rule for understanding somebody like Piper is that they will endorse whatever they think will keep Starbucks open, ubiquitous, and relatively inexpensive

What do we imagine that's going to end up smelling like? Especially if Peter really works up a lather, like he's done in his last couple of media hits

The requisite refrigeration equipment causes "shrinkage," just like George suffers in that one Seinfeld episode, bing bong so simple

Now, getting the quantum hardware to the point of service, so to speak, is the obvious challenge, and that's why I'm seeking funding for multiple container trucks so we can realize Uber for QC

Hmm, yes, I must develop a numerical function to determine whether or not somebody doesn't like me...

One thing he gets is that direct aggression is definitely more effective in this situation. I can, and do, tell these people to fuck straight off, and my life is better for it!

You're the second person I've seen this week asserting this without any evidence. That tells me that if a bubble like OP is talking about does develop, then superficial links to government labs on the part of company founders will be a big driver of it.

look at me, the thinking man, i update myself just like a computer beep boop beep boop

I have a degree of appreciation for Chapman because he was willing to more-or-less call out Yuddite rationalism as a failure and start to gently guide people away from it. But I also came to the conclusion that his whole project has never fully escaped the self-aggrandizement/self-importance inherent to the rats. That ultimately leads to the performative humility and "radical acceptance" that make so many attempts at appropriating non-Western religions to US culture ring completely hollow.

Broadly, the whole TPOT/post-rationality/meta-rationality thing still stinks like a bunch of people who thought advanced degrees and/or advanced technical skills would earn them a lot more compensation and social status than they actually ended up with, and are still dead-set on getting all that by hook or by crook.

better, or equivalent to, a mass defecation event?

I'm sorry, we finally, officially need to cancel fantasy TTRPGs. If it's not the implicit racialization of everything, it's the use of the stat systems as a framework for literally masturbatory eugenics fetishization.

You all can keep a stripped-down version of Starfinder as a treat. But if I see any more of this, we're going all the way back to Star Wars d6 and that's final.

Despite Mr. Davis' commitment to verbose apologetics, his faith movement is based around the devotional practice of wandering around pulling spurious probability estimates out of one's ass

A recent innovation on this practice, among the degenerate indulgence-retailers of the movement, is the posting of graphs showing hopelessly low-liquidity betting pools on prediction market websites

We have at least one major worked example of that in Scientology, but IIRC many of the rats are reluctant to even accept that

what in the world does any of this bull shit have to do with showing off your mid-tier Yamaha sport bike