For some reason LW is obsessed by the idea that this encyclical (specifically its Italian version) was written with the help of an LLM.

I have fond memories of Universal Soldier because my buddy knew the projectionist showing the movie and I fancied her

not alive enough to merit even the moral consideration of a farm animal

I foresee a rise in gourmet cannibalism to try to recoup at least some of the cost of keeping the meatbags alive and healthy for 30-some years

TIL, thanks!

Oh here’s a comment, sounds pretty reasonable actually

Doesn’t work because aging affects the brain as well and many deadly diseases originate in brain: insults (sic!), Alzheimer and brain cancers. Add risks of the transfer itself and the uncertainty when it should be done: too early for healthy aged person and and too late for one with cancer of any type (risks of metastases). All together it gives less than 10 years increase of of medium life expectancy.

back to the “upload smooth pristine brain onto the computer” drawing board we go!

Here’s a LWer suggesting the key to life extension is to grow unconscious clones of yourself and when your current body becomes too old, just pop your brain into the clone

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oL2ABPZx6ZLBFzB7H/brain-transfers-might-be-the-easiest-path-to-life-extension

please enjoy picking apart this idea, b/c so far the LW commentariat aren’t interested

don’t kinkshame

Spring is in the air, and someone presenting themselves as interested in fucking rationalist males has authored a piece about how said men can dress a bit better and maybe, just maybe, get laid:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vHtouRBd8JNm2tNLH/basic-principles-for-dressing-better

as usual, the real comedy is in the comments

• I dress like a schlub specifically to avoid advertising my sexual availability - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vHtouRBd8JNm2tNLH/basic-principles-for-dressing-better?commentId=RLdXtcStz9wdAvb4d
• “The item that I currently wear that expresses the most about me is my Oura ring followed by barefoot shoes.” - strangely not the same as the commenter above
• “When it comes to slim fit jeans I have the impression that fashion changed. Five years ago they were seen as great and now they don’t? Is that accurate?”
• “Overall, I think it makes the most sense to go to the pareto frontier here. You can spend 300-400 total getting some nice looking earth tone button-ups, well-fitting pants that aren’t blue jeans, trim your beard, get regular haircuts from an actual salon, shower daily, and make sure you smell decent.”
• “[…] when I look at the examples, what occurs to me is that dressing like the example would cause me to stick out and make it obvious to others I am making a special effort, and I’d rather not do that.”
• "I was hoping for more fashion theory; the why. "
• “It is fascinating to receive such communiqués of strange news from another star. I would not know, without your saying so, that the set of 10 pictures are intended to be good examples and not bad examples.”
• “[…] it is far more important that whatever my spouse wears be a pleasant texture to put my face on, most buttondown material fails this criterion but linen passes” - actually this is just cute

I’m sure he’ll enjoy being deported back to la République populaire démocratique de Quebec and spending a short time in the reeducations camps before being set to work installing solar panels

can’t wait for the inevitable livestreamed freakout/cannibalism scene

xheet is deleted, was is Beff Jezoz who wrote that? background? though he was as American as apple piethe Ku Klux Klan

depressing datapoint, this comment was downvoted to the point where it was auto-collapsed yesterday, today it’s “only” on -2

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bB5EDwcYH3GwoRWZf/women-should-be-able-to-open-things?commentId=jZdghN2N6ZopkzwzT

Here’s Florida settling for almost half a million Ameros for firing someone for posting on a private Instagram that Kirk was a giant douche who got what was coming to him (paraphrased)

https://www.aclufl.org/press-releases/civil-rights-lawyers-secure-485000-settlement-for-fwc-biologist-fired-over-charlie-kirk-social-media-post/

several other people have commented on the tone, and I believe it’s just because it’s massaged to be more marketing-ly

same with the local LLM crap, it’s to appeal to investors

I have seen nerds be mad at them for using Discord and GitHub too, some people are really hard to please

doubt this will ever see the light of day anyway

A LWer of the female persuasion makes the entirely reasonable point that most screw-top openings are probably constructed by looking at median male grip strength, not female. But the real fun is in the comments, where people who can post comments on a blog are seemingly unfamiliar with opening jam jars.

Women should be able to open things

spending way too much on GPUs is the spending way to much on mining rigs

at least dude didn’t burn his house down

It’s not a typical umlaut, (we have those in Swedish too), it’s like 2 sharp bunny ears

edit LOL it’s literally “double acute accent” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_acute_accent#Unicode

name in Hungarian: Erdős Pál

HN, lobste.rs and LW are jizzing themselves over the newspress release that ChatGPT[1] has disproven an Erdos[2] conjecture.

no-one pauses to think this is a transparent attempt to goose interest in OpenAI before they commit an IPO

[1] I know it’s not literally ChatGPT, it’s an “internal model”

[2] fuck trying to find the double acute accent or w/e it’s called over the o

this is a good way of getting rid of hyperactive deadwood

Just wait until investors demand the satellites be powered by diesel instead of solar panels