o7___o7 @ o7___o7 @awful.systems

[redacted] enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, fat

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So what you're saying is that Tim Apple could save us from these people by selling Marc Andreessen a billion dollar iphone?

It's Veblen goods again, isn't it?

"PEOPLE JUST DON'T WANT TO WORK ANYMORE!" the programmer shouts as he drowns in his own poop.

100% gonna be fyre fest, but on the blockchain

CAH is definitely a game you only play with people you've known your whole life, isn't it?

Once played with randoms at a hacker con and almost died of embarrassment.

Ugh, I'm sorry man. That's awful.

God almighty, the hubris to think that they'll this thing will be ready to go before the end of the decade. Who's going to be the prime contractor, I wonder? Bechtel?

Also, this gem inserted at the end as if it's nothing...I'm all for fusion research, but this is not happening by 2028. Someone needs to get the hook for Satya at this point, he's just lighting money on fire.

Microsoft is also pursuing power from nuclear fusion, a potentially abundant, cheap and clean form of electricity that scientists have been trying to develop for decades — and most say is still a decade or more away from generating electricity. Microsoft has signed a contract to purchase fusion energy from a start-up that claims it can deliver it by 2028.

Urbit, but somehow worse

...Paul Graham’s wimpy Lisp.

a whisp if you will

Did you know that cows have best friends and watch sunsets?

It's a reference to the hidden lore of the Elder Days.

This is an fantastic point. I could absolutely see him mailing weird things to a university physics department in an alternate timeline.

Is he inscrutable/obscurantist on purpose, or is it because he never had a proper humanities education nor an editor?

AI misalignment leads to spinal misalignment.

That is an absolutely deranged amount of money.

If the AI grifto-sphere were a supergiant star that has wandered off of the main sequence, its core is just now finishing up the oxygen and starting in on the silicon.

https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/elements/imagine/05.html

Via Timnit Gebru's mastodon, I just learned that Emily Bender (both of On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots fame) has a podcast: "Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000." Looking forward to checking it out tomorrow at the gym!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes

Summary: Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They're joined by special guests and talk about everything, from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines.

Absolutely unhinged. Are these people from the As-Seen-On-TV dimension where it's common for folks burn their house down every time they try to fry an egg?

Their episode on Rudolph Steiner was great when explaining to the grandparents why we had to pull our kids out of a Waldorf kindergarten asap. Funny how so many things fall into the trap of "It can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong."

Also, big L for me on due diligence. I thought outdoor classrooms would be good for our fellow ADHD enjoyer; nope.

first comment is a masterpiece.

I suspect it'll land somewhere above "halitosis" but below "wearing black socks with crocs"

That started out positively sinister, glad it came out alright!