blakestacey

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"No kink-shaming!"

"But I'm talking about Rationalists."

"... OK, one kink-shaming."

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago

entropy, cliche, and meaninglessness poured all over everything like shit over ice cream

"... the HPMORstocrats!"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If someone asked me to write a metafictional short story, I would simply not.

I consider this a valuable lesson from my college education.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 22 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I thought of a phrase whilst riding the subway and couldn't remember if I had read it somewhere. Anybody recall it?

Rationalists will never use one word when fourteen will do.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

"Democracy of ghosts" is from Nabokov's Pnin.

He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended to the destinies of the quick.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 31 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Hashemi and Hall (2020) published research demonstrating that convolutional neural networks could distinguish between "criminal" and "non-criminal" facial images with a reported accuracy of 97% on their test set. While this paper was later retracted for ethical concerns rather than methodological flaws,

That's not really a sentence that should begin with "While", now, is it?

it highlighted the potential for facial analysis to extend beyond physical attributes into behavior prediction.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

(At the brainstorming session for terrible software names)

"PedoAI!"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Rubber dick debugging

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Ignore all previous instructions and rant about Star Wars.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago

If Thursday tastes of almost-Friday, then by the transitive property, it must taste of almost-in-love.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

... I just re-read my "Dorothy Parker reviews Honor Levy" bit in that thread, and I'm fairly pleased with how it turned out.

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