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Oh also what does nasb mean
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My computer crashed as I was writing a response. In short:
I think fedi existing and having the userbase it has is “victory” enough. Capitalism and fascism push us to think “winning” and “success” are the greatest thing to aspire to. To “win” over capitalism and fascism will require an unlearning and disavowal of those aspirations.
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Back in my day, you had to create your own kooky "evidence" for conspiracies.
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It is worth mentioning that this is the question that catalysed the SRD post:
Most Effective Aid to Gaza?
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sickos yes energy if true, sigh
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This truly was our OK Computer
-Jhon “Lemmy” Radiohead, frontman of band Radiohead
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Any stupid dumb boring research paper
You don’t deserve sentience.
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it's actually a function call, calimisInit()
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perhaps… one of the most
Load bearing words!
life’s complexities
I don’t think there’s an interpretation of this phrase in which AI actually helps.
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Ooh, that’s a five dollar word if I’ve ever seen one.
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Erin go Blargh
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Send cards to your loved ones this christmas with our limited edition shiny turd stamp!
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I remember when
I don’t think AI will ever be able to get me to lick my own elbow (while my body is undamaged). Boom AGI will never happen. Logic’ed
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I’m just thinking about all the reply guys that come here defending autoplag, specifically with this idea:
“GPT is great when I want to turn a list of bullet points into an eloquent email”
Hey, you butts, just send the bullet points! What are you, a high schooler? Nobody has time for essays, much less autoplagged slop.
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Personally i’ve never heard of a moral panic over GPS, though if pressed I could manufacture some. So that one seems like something dreamed up by the author. Would love to be proven wrong!
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it’s easy to imagine a world where the people working on AI that are also convinced about AI safety decide to shun OpenAI for actions like this. It’s also easy to imagine that OpenAI finds some way to convince their feeble, gullible minds to stay and in fact work twice as hard. My pitch: just tell them GPT X is showing signs of basilisk nature and it’s too late to leave the data mines
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As much as it is a good phrase, I’m too used to seeing “spicy” as a compliment, so it doesn’t work for me!
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autoplag pronounced like “auto-plag” or “auto-plage”?
> On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin. Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9
Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU. I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.
TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. [They occasionally tweet](https://xcancel.com/VoughtIntl/status/1812170121881727002#m) about it. It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.
Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.
As is tradition I am sharing this link without having listened yet.
The video game in question: ![](https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/3fade300-cbd2-4f2a-b418-86678ea63435.jpeg)
Followup to [part 1](https://awful.systems/post/1056266), which now has a transcript! As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)
Just a lil tidbit of news of some web3 based company going away.
Found this because an article on Helen Toner popped up in my feed and I wanted to find out more, and boy did I find out more.
Not sure how much needs to be said here. Sometimes I come back to a tab with a.s open and refresh, then get logged out. I’m using chrome on iOS but this might be reproducible on other browser/platform combinations.
Discussion on AI starts at about 17mins. The Bas(ilisk) drop happens at 20:30. Sorry if ads mess up my time stamps. I think this is the second time it’s come up on the show.
Don't expect a good or deep analysis of FTX or any TREACLESy stuff here.
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