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wait what have you seen

ieepa ecoute moi

nice overton window shame if something happened to it

yeah any morality of created beings needs to have an answer to the cow in douglas adams who wants to be eaten

real charlie bit my finger energy here

yeah I talk with people who want to be conspiracy-pilled about the files + connect epstein with every other thing happening in the world

I think it's important to identify this as yes very bad, but partly a solidarity phenomenon, not a total illuminati thing

exstriltration

please take this down. I can't stop staring at it. it's drawing me into the screen

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had been wondering what 'ufo' stands for, 'unfuckable orange' makes sense in context

fairly sure john dowland wrote this for sting

have been wondering where this will settle

I often work directly with a model, but rarely want someone else to forward me model output

only way to do verified human output right now is IRL, so could imagine 'return of the lecture circuit' as a thing that happens for a bit?

holy shit the speed

I think free public goods also immunize communities against grifts

I do not blame the American intellectual for a hostile attitude to science and the machine age. A hostile attitude is something positive and constructive, and there is much of the impact of the machine age which needs active and intelligent resistance. I do blame him for a lack of interest in the machine age. He does not consider it important enough for him to learn the main facts concerning science and machinery, and for him to take an active position toward these. What attitude he has is hostile, but the hos- tility does not go so far as to make him do anything about it. It is more of a nostalgia for the past and a meaningless discontent with the present than any maturely considered attitude. He shows a willingness to accept the trends of the day as disagreeable but inevitable. In fact, he reminds one of the refined creatures in a fable of Lord Dunsany. These delicate and refined beings have become so used to being consumed by a grosser and more brutal race that they accept their fate as natural and proper, and welcome the axe which takes their heads off

I have been reading norbert wiener and he predicted these things 50 years ago. (or like they were current for him too, so 'perceived the scene and foretold the rest' like tiresias)

the planning was not meticulous

it's just a form a signaling

I was dissociating from some seemingly bad speech by the middle of the paragraph in fact

dont' drown turn around

this gets to the heart of why it's unstrategic to appease centrists

my sense is this place got many of the grad-school reading level posters in the divorce with twitter, and some of the lawyers

and both of those groups had (correct) early criticisms of AI tools, and (legit) fears of it replacing them

and the discourse is slightly behind the state of the tools

have seen this online and it seems grifty, but also in IRL friends who are well meaning

trying to ignore the former and find good ways to talk to the latter

R electoral success was built on including messiannic movements; would be good for Ds to replicate that (but without imbibing the kool aid)

not the point at all but this reminds me so much of dale dubin, author of the best textbook on reading EKGs, only to later lose his license over coke + child porn, and aficionado of irradiating gems to juice their value so he could donate them to the museum of natural history as a tax offset

I also have a hydraulic monitor arm and will sometimes give up and bring it right up to my face

this is not medical advice

I am in this zone too so shout if you find a good fix, but allow me to recommend eyedrops in the meantime

yeah someone will write a book about the chyrons when this is all over

'contivoucly' is the accurate term for a process that proceeds smoothly on the negative Timn axis

not saying all appeasement arguments are wrong, but some are, and you're making an appeasement argument

the overton window is shifted by action more than by words; the biddable centrists in my life switched from opposing prosecution to supporting it when the prosecution started

ubuntu did something to my PC and now windows 11 has never been installed on it