It's striking how inimical to life itself the first statement is on its own. The people most obsessed with living for an eternity seem to be having the worst time of it. Yes, the Musks & Thiels are ungodly rich, but do they ever seem even basically well-adjusted? Inordinate wealth seems to come with commensurate insecurity.
fnix
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well, Zen buddhism
Yeah, this is the Valley after all. Some have used Buddhism as a building block for constructing “metarationality”.
The irony being that rather than writing good SCP themselves, they'd make for even better subjects of containment & study.
Oh you thought TESCREAL sounded fancy huh? Well I'll raise you a BIGGER word!
Searching Reddit has really become standard practice for me, a testament to how inhuman the web as a whole has gotten. What a shame.
Many ordinary people lost their jobs and homes during the Great Recession, while no one at the top was ever held individually accountable. Knowing the dynamics of the tech world, a hard crash would likely end up playing out the same way.
Absolutely. We already sanction Russian oligarchs for the same reasons, why should we treat the American ones any different honestly.
Wow, the term 'epistemically humble' is ingenious really. I don't have to listen to any critics at all, not because I'm a narcissist, oh no, but because I'm so 'epistemically humble' no one could possibly have anything left to teach me!
How much money would be saved by just funneling the students of these endless ‘AI x’ programs back to the humanities where they can learn to write (actually good) science fiction to their heart’s content? Hey, finally a way AI actually lead to some savings!
That’s an AI governance PhD right there!
Bill Gates is having a normal one.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/bill-gates-on-ai-humans-wont-be-needed-for-most-things.html
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Time to resurrect this thread with some campy German eurodance!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E6MulYo5U4
This gave me more value than the last decade of tech-industry output combined. 😄 Silicon Valley could never make Mrs. Robota!