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  • Charles Stross suggested "Blarney Engine"

  • threads is cookin tonite
  • That's an interesting point. It also aligns with how some of our main characters are involved in trying to organize a steroid olympics.

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  • Our anti-AI milita will be called "The Artists' Rifles"

  • Salesforce invites a horse into the hospital
  • But here in America, the horse can fire the horse catcher.

  • TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion
  • That said, if things improve both in terms of the quality of responses you can get from models as well as reduced costs to run them, then there is definitely huge economic potential.

    lmao, yeah if it worked it'd be impressive, but it hasn't, it doesn't, and it won't ever because it fundamentally can't.

  • Salesforce invites a horse into the hospital
    sfstandard.com Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce

    "Let me get this straight," he said. "You're hosting a 'future of AI' event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?"

    Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce

    John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.

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  • Don't make me tap the sign

    This is not debate club

    We don't correct people when they are wrong. We do other things.

  • Routledge nags academics to finish books ASAP — to feed Microsoft’s AI
  • basically the wal-mart version of the Reapers from Mass Effect.

  • TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion
  • Ya gotta imagine that TSMC execs are going to have a "hard-nosed realist" vibe compared to the average Silicon Valley tech guy.

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  • Watching AI guys slowly come around feels similar to how people have to care for their alcoholic relatives. Folks have to come to the point where they recognize where the unacceptable bullshit lies on their own, then you can show them the cold hard facts and a path back to the real world, but getting there is absolutely exhausting and often heartbreaking.

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  • right with you on team passive aggressive.

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  • Fun fact: All of these incidents happened at the same jacuzzi party.

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  • This tech curve is about to go exponential, if you know what I'm sayin'

    --venture capitalists, probably

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  • HN seems to be particularly deranged today, doesn't it?

    It mostly seems to be a mopey debate over whether Saltman's impending apotheosis is good or bad.

  • Marques Brownlee's ‘Panels’ Backlash, Explained
  • I use subscription services to get the best letters of the alphabet.

    For example, I use WinnrWinnrChicknDinnr to get access to the letter W (upper AND lower case!) for only $69 a month!

    No idea why they needed my SSN, but look I'm not some pleb that uses free letters.

  • under categories "LEADERSHIP -> SAM ALTMAN": making drugs extremely uncool again
  • I still think about that post from time to time.

  • Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets
    gizmodo.com Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets

    In a questionable new trend, supermarkets in the South now seem to be selling bullets right out of a dispenser.

    Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets

    When you think MURDER, think MARCUS MUNITIONS!

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