I’m going to put a token down and make a prediction: when the bubble pops, the prompt fondlers will go all in on a “stabbed in the back” myth and will repeatedly try to re-inflate the bubble, because we were that close to building robot god and they can’t fathom a world where they were wrong.

The only question is who will get the blame.

They should have invested in a boat if they had to have a depreciating asset

HEMI – Hot Extropians Making Inquiries

Please calm down.

lol

academ-ick

I’m just not going to waste my time with curve pointers who want to die on the hill of NeW sCaLiNG pArAdIgM. They are just too deep in the kool-aid at this point.

The singularity is near worn-out at this point.

LLMs are seven or eight bipartite graphs in a trench coat. Is your brain seven neurons thick, because that would explain a few things.

Very practical no notes

What if we made a human centipede with a homeopathic quantity of human in it?

Don’t make me tap the sign:

no gods, no kings

This is what a lifetime of never suffering a consequence does to a motherfucker

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Springer started off awful, and now many decades later it’s pure garbage. All those times in between? Also pretty bad.

Ed Zitron on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lsukqwhjvk26

Haven’t seen a newsletter of mine hit the top 20 on Hackernews and then get flag banned faster, feels like it barely made it 20 minutes before it was descended upon by guys who would drink Sam Altman’s bathwater

Also funny: the hn thread doesn’t appear on their search.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424456

Instead of a diet coke button you get an ayahuasca button

lol

It’s got what plants crave, so I’m told

Rob Liefeld vibes

There should be a word for this!

Yeah, its nuts. They’d have to be resident, pay land taxes, and make improvements for 7 years here. They don’t even mow the grass, the owner does.

these idiots made me feel sympathy for a landlord. I might never recover.

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As an aside, it’s fun to imagine the similar sort of brain damage a chatbot would cause Fox Mulder.