The Sanguine Nihilist

Hmm, reminiscent to me of Lenin et al. holing up in the Kremlin after the Bol'sheviks seized power.

are you pulling that quote directly from a Derek Thompson podcast?

I think you're all fucked in the head with this ChatGPT shit! I get it if there are models that show promise for aiding in diagnoses and shit, but trial them to make sure they're ready for primetime. don't just release this shit on the public and expect them to know how to use it.

Shut that shit down! That's my option. We won't miss it, I promise.

My friend who works at a university is facing a serious career dilemma because of how hard her school administrators are trying to get her to push AI. I just left a university that went all in on the fever of being an AI first university. Schools are cutting funding to lib arts to focus on AI.

It's not the kids that need to hear it sadly. It's school administrators.

I use LLM's, and I constantly have to resist getting pulled into the feedback loop I hear heavy users describing. I think these things are designed to be addictive, and this is something that very few people are talking about.

No matter what reasons are given for any of trump's seemingly insane decisions to remove dictators, start wars, etc. I always ask myself this one question: "How does this help Putin?" It seems that there's always some benefit to Putin in any of these decisions.

to me that's also not surprising.

...or the CEO is just fucking lying.

But if they succesfully bring about the end times woudln't it have been worth it?

This can't be fucking real. A US official didn't just say that.

What's the over under on number of school children maimed in the next errant missile strike?

once they get AGI they’ll be able to figure out how to get around the government’s obstacle. Don’t you see how this works?

as far as we know.

What disturbs and disgusts me is that we live in a world where the tweet has come to dominate our political discourse. Am I the only one who sees how fucked up it is that a shit posting app has become the de facto way that officials communicate with the public.

Unfortunately, she made the mistake of saying those things while black.

I'm sure she knows this and did it on purpose to rile up other social media users. That's how this works.

Schwing!

Thank you for putting it so clearly. I think with all the noise it's easy to get confused about the fact that there is one throughline with the trump/republican party right now. They are actively working on behalf of russian (ie putin's) interests.

'Who controls the past controls the future...'

Hmm. I think I'm beginning to see a pattern.

315 is pretty good, to be honest.

how about the fact that we're relegating our judgment about these issues to algorithms that can be controlled by corportaions. That scares me more than one of them getting the 'wrong answer.'

jesus fucking christ :/. I read in the author synopsis that dude was a 'committed atheist.' What in the fuck is a committed atheist? How in the fuck could someone be committed to a non-belief? This psedo-intellectual bullshitery makes me sad.

i thought it was because of A.I. data centers.

If you substitute 'loving' with 'controlled' your sentence will match reality a little better.

'serious federal offense' = 'pardonable federal offense.' Noem wasn't *lying*. She was creating reality. Get it right.

this seems misinformed to me. one, his ultimate point was that the money is being misspent on chatbots. and 2 technology has created jobs. see, eg, the industrial revolution.

That’s a good way to put it. i think of is as like intellectual signalling. The intellectual signals to other intellectuals that he’s not just some rube or crazy radical by constantly hedging on an obvious position, no matter how defensible.