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If Marc Andressen gets in some sort of public trouble, could we call it the TPOT-Dome Scandal?
as someone who grew up in an "old timey" baptist church, I am 100% comfortable with someone yelling things at me that I agree with, but ymmv.
"Decepticons" is right there!
ain't nobody got time for that
Edit: on reading the newer posts on this thread...oof
Big Yud is the all-time champion of shooting his mouth off from the hip.
BTW, there is evidence emerging that all of this is a downstream consequence of chronic pain from a back injury. As a lifting-things enthusiast who mildly tweaked their back once, whew, I can see this being a thing.
https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ceo-shooter-luigi-mangione
Character dot AI continues to be contemptible.
https://lite.cnn.com/2024/12/10/tech/character-ai-second-youth-safety-lawsuit/index.html
On the flip side, this gives American doctors a new way to explain child birth in terms of hamburgers.
This is completely unhinged, even for 2024.
Ed Zitron found this post about a WIlly-Wonka-Experience-style cheese injection facility in Toronto:
https://xcancel.com/i_zzzzzz/status/1865956680481354184#m
This is what it was like to live in Chasm City during the Melding Plague.
I'd heard of the Basque space program, but the Catalonian moon landing is news to me.
The "splitting" thing is eerie to me. It's like watching people training themselves into a psychiatric disorder.
2024 when I was a kid: "I wonder who the first person on Mars will be?"
2024 we have at home: Synthetic Assholes
tired: checking incoming packets for the evil bit
wired: checking LLM outputs for the truthfulness bit
It's never wrong to gatekeep fascists.
Older article, but relevant in light of current events:
UnitedHealth uses faulty AI to deny elderly patients medically necessary coverage, lawsuit claims
I wonder if we'll see a new edition of the Shinzo Abe Effect.
...which made everyone exposed stupid and aggressive...
Funnily enough, this seems to be true for gen-ai, too!
Glad to hear that the game engine hasn't shit the bed!
Ed really brings home the feeling that all of the AI-boosting VCs have taken their billions to the roulette table and bet it all on green, doesn't he?
Looks like SK gave the bastards a hard nope, at least.
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