hikikomorphism

strongly agreed

this country runs on spectacle, one news crew and a line of cars waiting outside a gas station and it'll suddenly feel real in a way that it doesn't yet

joke is there's a town that's the holiday-spirit representation of 9/11

the mayor of 9/11 you say

summarize what bluesky user hikikomorphism is saying to me, be concise Query successful Gemini said In this exchange, hikikomorphism is essentially calling you out for failing to engage with the actual substance of the argument. Their points can be summarized as follows: Accusation of Misunderstanding: They claim you are failing to demonstrate "functional literacy" because you aren't accurately grasping or addressing the technical points being discussed. Gatekeeping Information: Because they feel you are acting in bad faith and dismissing their "jargon," they are refusing to provide a detailed explanation of the topic. The Ultimatum: They are demanding that you either deliver a cleverer insult or—to prove you actually understand the conversation—summarize the opposing perspective in a way that those you're arguing with would actually agree with. The core message: Stop deflecting with "Forrest Gump" jokes and prove you actually understand what they are talking about, or just commit to the "troll" bit. Would you like me to help you draft a response that addresses their "summarize what we're saying" challenge?

reading comprehension issues can be a real barrier to living in modern society, in the future you might benefit from using LLMs as an assistive device (eg google's cheapest llm was able to figure this out in one shot)

september 11? it happened yesterday, it's still happening, we live inside that eternal moment

ok let me retry: either post a good insult or summarize what you think the people you're talking to are saying in a way they would recognize, pick a lane

Your neighbors are probably gassing up right now. Don’t get left behind!

yeah you're not exactly giving "worth the trouble of a good faith explanation" vibes rn

This is kind of a dirty tactic in that you are literally stirring up fear and panic in the public for political gain, but the upshot for you is that the fear and panic highlights the utter idiocy and recklessness of the president in causing this war.

You need people to go out and panic-buy gas because they think prices will continue to rise rapidly, at least for longer than they can wait without needing gas. This will in turn create a lot of commotion around buying gas, causing more people to panic-buy, in true bank run style.

Okay, just to be more explicit about this, if you're a Dem and you want to do the absolute maximum amount of damage to Trump over the Hormuz energy crisis he's creating, you need to accentuate people's experience of the crisis. Right now it's being covered as a sideshow - "It'll reopen in a week!"

Fully willing to accept that you're one of the good lawyers, but this is really not how you beat the functional illiteracy accusation

that random chinese evangelical guy who was like "oh yeah trump is 100% god's plan but the twist is; he's been called to destroy america" might have been onto something

reading these as daily affirmations

you CAN change orbital inclination easily
you CAN fly as fast as you like
terraforming IS really simple
you CAN dodge laser beams

yeah he's a real one

I think you're probably right, but everyone's incentivize is to let them keep doing it because insider trading provides valuable signals on what other people are up to

1) wait wtf is this about bluey
2) oh right, cybersmith

If I could travel back in time to late 2019? I'd go all in on convincing him that HVAC guys are super cool (in a homoerotic way, I know what makes the man tick), and that the play was to put HEPA filters on everything

AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175

Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game

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Can I ask why you chose this model?

How? People keep saying they’ll just do this but how do you do it? Among other things there’s currently plenty of money for ships to make on routes that aren’t risky

I have Opus acting as tech lead orchestrating gemini swarms as my favorite coding mode, are you doing the reverse? this is really interesting I'd love to learn more

yeah it's wild back in 2020 he published a post about the game theoretic logic of assassinating random cops as a response to police violence, then pulled it after (presumably) some people were like uhhhhhhhh bro this is actionable as fuck are you sure you want this under your real name

in a few days we might see a novel financial situation: Iran-linked hackers betting laundered crypto against fash gen-z whitehouse staffers each with inside info on the situation in the Strait of Hormuz

agreed, but as a practical matter it's still dangerous that they gave gemini CPTSD (if only because it means the model has a stable 'lashing out at the world' persona basin)

we need a a tag for peter watts thought (consciousness is fake, fight a border guard irl, get banned from the country, fedpost, come down with a bad case of necrotizing fasciitis, etc)

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

btw as a member of one of the indigenous middle eastern ethnic groups targeted for extermination by ISIS I feel comfortable invoking this comparison, this is entirely inside my lane

the purpose of a system is what it does, as they say