I read it as “Derek Smalls” at first and only now I remembered he was the bassist of Spinal Tap.

Disappointing if true. The omake for TH19 hits the nail on the head on why genAI as it exists today is antithetical to the ethos of the series.

I don’t get it. It’s like you’re saying the sexy robot woman is a representation of seductive futuristic promises of a problematic technology. I don’t see how that ties into the article at all.

\QB

What’s the “killer features” of these new laptops

LLM

and what % price increase is it worth?

negative eighty, tops

There certainly are delivery robots going around in Helsinki, but not to the extent you’re guaranteed to see them on any given day if you’re just strolling around.

Glad you enjoyed your visit.

I think this mostly proves that Leo XIV is a moe anime character.

That’s a boring perspective fuck you for sharing.

Pretty sure they’re already doing that for many things.

This feels like a lot of straw man arguments?

No it doesn’t?

Did anyone ever claim these things?

Yes?

Are these problems to implementing SMR? I don’t think so.

OK, but aside from lower efficiency, higher price per watt, and not solving any of the problems they’re supposed to solve, are there any problems with SMR? I don’t think so.

I’m a centrist. I think we should aim for the halfway point between basic human decency and hateful cruelty. I’m also willing to move towards the hateful cruelty to appease the right, because I’m a moderate.

I appreciate the phrasing “NFTs that cost millions” instead of “NFTs worth millions”.

Still frustrated over the fact that search engines just don’t work anymore. I sometimes come up with puns involving a malapropism of some phrase and I try and see if anyone’s done anything with that joke, but the engines insist on “correcting” my search into the statistically more likely version of the phrase, even if I put it in quotes.

Also all the top results for most searches are blatant autoplag slop with no informational value now.

A whole generation is leaning more socialist because homeownership is unattainable and student debt is crushing. The solution is whatever is the latest big tech fad.

Just like all of gen X’s problems would have been solved with more .com, right?

Ooh, pants-on-head stupid semantics nonsense detected.

First, the government needs to be run top-down from the Oval Office. This is why we call it the “executive” branch. “Executive” is a literal synonym of “monarchical”—from “mono,” meaning “one,” and “archy,” meaning “regime.” “Autocratic” is fine too. The “executive branch” is the “autocratic branch,” or should be if English is English. Libs: if these words don’t mean what they mean, what do they mean?

Executive, as in pertaining to execution. Executing the the duties of a government as defined by legislation. Where the fuck did Curtsy get the impression that “executive” is somehow synonymous with “monarchical”? Did he mix it up with “exclusive”? Even corporations often have multiple executives with different roles.

Mr. Thiel you have so much fucking money couldn’t you afford a fascist philosopher king who is more intelligent than this guy who thinks an “executioner” is a guy that makes you a dictator?

It’s weird how you can always find autocracy supporters in every era despite the overwhelmingly strong and incredibly obvious counterargument “what if the autocrat wants to do something you don’t like”

Matt Levine, qntm

I can see why these would appeal to LW crowd. One of them writes cosmic horror about monstrous alien phenomena that can’t be directly perceived preying on humanity and all life in the universe, and qntm writes wordy science fiction.

No comment on Wildbow. I’m sure Worm is excellent but I’m just not in the market for three HPMoR wordcounts of capeshit, so I don’t know what his deal is. Bummer for him to have one of his characters be the indirect namesake of a notorious murder cult.

It stands for Effective Altruism, which isn’t about either of those things.

First impression: queer (and therefore better) take on whatever Cybersmith was on about(??)

If he wrote it now, the patronus animal would be an RTX 5090.