istewart

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[–] istewart@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

Folks may want to close OpenAI accounts if they don’t want Oracle billing them someday.

geez, at least spoiler-tag a jump-scare this big

[–] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

Bruce Wayne asserts to Alfred in The Dark Knight that "Batman has no limits." But what if, and this has gone totally unconsidered by anyone up until now... Buttman also has no limits????

[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

Central Preference Vector seems like a fantastic band name if some producer was trying to mainstream industrial music

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

It helps sanewash their own prejudices. "See, this guy could be talked down from the worst of it, aren't we reasonable by comparison?"

[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're going to be headline sponsors of Fyre Festival II

[–] istewart@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

lol wow, I'm cackling at Gackle. Perhaps we can call his brand of caping for polo-shirt fascism "gackin' off"

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Once again, the Yuddites pine for MODOK

[–] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why not just make the refrigerator itself a robot

Mobile kegerator for tailgating/festivals might be able to pull Boston Dynamics outta the shit

[–] istewart@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

Never got too deep into Hossenfelder, but I gradually got the impression that Woit was taking a bit of an online-influencer tack, even starting before influencers were really a thing. The whole "not even wrong" flap seemed to draw in people who wanted to have strong opinions about high-energy physics and string theory without really studying them in any detail.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

If we're casting eugenics warriors, at least Ricardo Montalban had some bodacious pecs

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Quantum computing will enable the AGI to entangle with all surrounding molecular vibrations! I saw another press release today

[–] istewart@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago (10 children)

bahahahaha "judge every molecule." I can't believe I ever took this guy even slightly seriously.

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