It’s pretty great. The closing bits of improv from her cohost are a bit meh imo but the AI hype assessments are legitimately amazing.

Also means we’re likely to have a better jumping on point to explain these people to those who aren’t already here. Hope he does one on Yud and friends in the not too distant future.

Do you think he actively avoids those, or was this just the most convenient seat at the time?

I’m reminded of the guy in a previous thread who claimed LLMs helped him as a rubber duck partner. You know - the troubleshooting technique named for its efficacy when working with a bath toy.

In other news, Germany should be allowed to keep half of Poland and the Sudetenland.

We don’t do right of conquest anymore because we recognized how it obviously incentivizes more wars of aggression and the associated humanitarian disasters.

Protesting and striking are valuable ways of organizing and fighting for change outside of the broken electoral system, but that isn’t incompatible with using the power afforded to us through the electoral system to avoid the additional damage of a Trump presidency.

Or would you prefer to continue protesting and striking while the president has openly laughed about illegally firing striking workers and backed the use of even more police violence against protestors? Have we really forgotten 2020 so quickly?

…huh. Your sources are certainly more credible than my half-remembered reddit posts. I think I was probably mistaken on this one.

And those people are being told that the moderators were lugenpresse who were on the wrong side and want to protect criminals over your dog as part of their something something woke. The fact that the lamestream media keeps talking about how false it is and going to increasingly desperate lengths to deny it must mean we’re onto them.

This is how the propaganda works. This is such a blatant lie that it should be a simple fact-check, but since that doesn’t actually change anyone’s mind all the attempt does is keep everyone talking about immigration, an issue that fires up the right-wing base and exhausts a lot of their opponents. You’re absolutely right that we shouldn’t be still talking about whether this is true or not, but focusing on how weird and dumb this conspiracy theory is getting. That’s why the “weirdo” tack has been working for Harris in this campaign, and it’s unfortunate that the headlines have lost interest.

Just keep smashing yourself into the bricks to “deny the wall legitimacy” or whatever. I’m sure it will work this time.

“They would like you to believe that their indecision reflects a particular attunement to ambiguity and nuance. But in truth they just won’t know where they stand until they’ve figured out where you do.”

This is exactly why these people always feel so weird. Like, have you considered not hanging out with assholes?

• sleep( math.rand(15,20));
• print(“I’m sorry. I’m afraid I don’t know the answer to that question.”);

I call it HonestGPT, and will accept my billions in VC money now.

I mean, my awareness extends as far as “pure sniff ideology” and basically no context. Definitely heard some extremely bad takes on Ukraine though, which has quickly turned into my number one red flag for “actually pretty okay with Nazis when you get down to it”

EDIT: special thanks to skillissuer below for the correction re: Ukraine takes. Please trust his actual sources over my half-remembered reddit nonsense.

Jesus Christ that was the most on-the-nose distillation of tech fascism that I’ve ever seen. Can’t wait for the book to get published and see Elon et al endorsing it.

Only it’s even worse because without redoing all the work yourself you can’t even tell which ones are dead or alive.

Honestly I’m kind of reminded of some of the philosophy around semiotics and authorship. Like, when reading a story part of the interpretation comes from constructing a mental image of the author talking to a mental image of the audience, and the way those mental images get created can color the interpretation and how we read and understand the text.

In that sense, the tendency to construct a mental image of a person talking through ChatGPT or Eliza makes much more sense. I’ve been following the Alex Jones interviews of chatGPT and the illusion is much less strong when listening to the conversation rather than having it mediated through text, which is probably a good sign for those of us who like actual people. Even when interactive, chatting through text is sufficiently less personal that it’s easier to fill in all the extra humanity, though as we see from Alex himself in those interviews it is definitely not impossible to get fooled through other media.

But that’s at the ground level of interaction, and it’s probably noteworthy that the press releases for all these policies are not getting written by a bot. This tendency to fill in a human being definitely lines up with the tech-authoritarian tendency that OP has discussed elsewhere to dehumanize both their victims and more significantly themselves. I think the way they talk about themselves and the people who work on their “side” is if anything more alarming than the way they talk about their victims.

Me, a network goblin: wait what do they mean physical layer or did meta try to buy TCP somehow?

I mean, I could definitely buy that a perceived loss of face for Trump could negatively impact the vibes for whales in crypto land enough to cause this kind of ~1% dip. The other side of being such a wildly unhealthy market is that you’ll see measurable movements based on nothing but “Jerry thought the vibes were off this week and stopped pumping quite so hard” or something.

Honestly pointing me at The Two-Income Trap was the single most valuable thing I ever got from reading Scoot Sooskoond. I feel like I was able to get on board the “oh she actually does know things” train a bit sooner than everyone else.

See, what he needs to do is really get inside the grift loop and pivot back to crypto ahead of everyone else. That way he can be at the front of the pack instead of yet another also-ran in the meta verse and AI grifts.

Nah, I think they’re trying to sell the combination of that and some kind of valuable networking opportunity to the kind of person who is to tech entrepreneurship what the unpublished guy who loudly tells everyone in Starbucks they’re a novelist is to writers.