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

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So many fully-cooked brains in that thread.

BTW, ever notice how easy it is to replace "robot overlords" in TESCREAL stuff with literally anything else? Compare this gem from the linked thread, "The Authoritarian Peril":

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with this version where Tolkein stuff is seamlessly swapped in for evil sentient gaming rigs with no loss of generality:

A dictator who wields the power of the One Ring would command concentrated power unlike any we’ve ever seen. In addition to being able to impose their will on other countries, they could enshrine their rule internally. Millions of orcs could police their populace; mass surveillance would be hypercharged; dictator-loyal Ring Wraiths could individually assess every citizen for dissent, with advanced near-perfect lie detection rooting out any disloyalty. Most importantly, the orcish military and police force could be wholly controlled by a single political leader, and programmed to be perfectly obedient—no more risk of coups or popular rebellions. Whereas past dictatorships were never permanent, Isildur's Bane could eliminate basically all historical threats to a dictator’s rule and lock in their power (cf value lock-in). If the CCP gets this power, they could enforce the Party’s conception of “truth” totally and completely.

• Will AI die for our sins?
• Will AI break the Wheel?
• WIll AI serve the Antichrist?
• Will AI accept acausal trade bribes from Freeman Dyson so that he was right after all?

Riffing on this fun subthread:

• Will AI invent the Philosopher's Stone?
• Can AI duck the Zuck?
• WIll AI divide by zero?
• Can AI give you diarrhea?
• Will AI make "fetch" happen?
• Will AI have a second helping?
• Does AI unlock the secret to making the Moon happy again?
• Can AI stop eating after only one marshmallow?

Keep em coming, appreciate the hard work!

The blade runner we have at home

This new trend of describing the American right wing as weirdos sure is something, isn't it? What used to be our little hobby has escaped containment, largely due to the surfacing of JD Vance and his backers during the RNC. As recently as last month, when NRx and Rationalist oddballs came up in a news item, the response of the average reader would be to shrug and dismiss them as a small minority of sweaty nerds and assume that "regular" Republican politicians wouldn't have anything to do with them. Things have changed; now there's many an NPR-loving granny googling "what is a yarvin" and getting wound up about it in her group chats.

We've all heard of the Overton Window, which according to Wikipedia is, "the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time." I therefore propose a new thing, the "Yarvin Window," which we can define as "the range of insane policies that it is politically acceptable to ascribe to your ideological opponents."

This is the price they pay for grabbing the wrong end of the poo stick.

Aktually, you can't ban roads because normal people use them

that's fuckin grim.

Leukemia patients are always over-represented in their data because it's so much easier to use the calipers on people with no hair.

@cstross

Looks like someone took the wrong lesson from Quantum of Nightmares!

Edit: Enjoyed the book, btw. Felt weird about shopping for groceries for most of a year afterward. A++

Most women think about steppe nomads at least once a day.

The Pinhead we have at home.

Turns out that load-bearing children are out of code.

is a redditor on a sub in support of a bubble technology that runs on plagiarism, exploitation of highly vulnerable workers, and infrastructure that causes climate change, and also the sub is a Nazi bar

the aristocrats!

this is what Curtis Yarvin actually believes

I want fully-automated luxury gay space communism, but not like this.

Hearing people use ChatGPT to search for things and believing it just blows my mind. I'm talking about intelligent folks that I know very well; but go and question the bullshit engine and suddenly it's like I'm talking to old people about politics. It's just impossible to get through and it's killing me.

Hannu Rajaniemi intensifies

OpenAI is creating the trustless economy that makes bitcoin necessary. taps forehead

Butters and Trump are ruining my ability to get anything done in town today. Not a big fan of this dumb shit inconveniencing me IRL.

How do people do this without dying of anxiety?

BTW, that last comment on RetractionWatch was grim:

I recently saw a presentation by a job candidate (a PhD with many years experience) who used figures that were clearly AI-generated. They weren’t as funny as this example or the giant rat penis, but certainly fictional and unreal. In and of itself, troubling enough. Worse was that my colleagues involved in the interview didn’t care when I pointed it out.