rightwing ‘pro child’ policy in practice always seems to consist of oppressing women and gesturing vaguely when asked how this fixed anything

they have billionaire bank rollers. since the reality of our media system is that you hear a lot about whatever billionaires want you to hear about, they are covered

this is completely unvarnished, OG, third reich nazism, so I’m pretty sure it’s the first, except without the faking it part: I expect his view to be that if you had examined future homeless people closely enough it always would have been possible to tell that they were doomed subhumans

this and the pro slavery reply might be the most overt orange site nazism I’ve seen

oh but what if bro…

occurring to me for the first time that roko’s basilisk doesn’t require any of the simulated copy shit in order to work about as well as it does. if you think an all powerful ai within your lifetime is likely you can reduce to vanilla pascal’s wager immediately, because the AI can torture the actual real you. all that shit about digital clones and their welfare is totally pointless

I usually say the following. I’m paraphrasing a spiel I have delivered in person several times and which seems to get things across.

'there’s a kind of decentralized cult called rationalism. they worship rational thinking, have lots of little rituals that are supposed to invoke more rational thinking, and spend a lot of time discussing their versions of angels and demons, which they conceive of as all powerful ai beings.

rationalists aren’t really interested in experiments or evidence, because they want to figure everything out with pure reasoning. they consider themselves experts on anything they’ve thought really hard about. they come up with a lot of apocalypse predictions and theories about race mingling.

silicon valley is saturated with rationalists. most of the people with a lot of money are not rationalists. but VCs and such find rationalists very useful, because they’re malleable and will claim with sincerity to be experts on any topic. for example, when AI companies claim to be inventing really intelligent beings, the people they put forward as supporting these claims are rationalists.’

for every one of me that shit my pants the AGI is simulating ten million of me that didn’t, so on average i’m doing pretty ok

i mean i describe it as a gacha game in the third sentence, i’m pretty clear about that. mtg has always been exploitative, they’re just taking it to another level now

I heard openai execs are so scared of how powerful the next model will be that they’re literally shitting themselves every day thinking about it. they don’t even clean it up anymore, the openai office is one of the worst smelling places on earth

god I hope this is true

to the extent that it’s been created

I’ll say it again urbit is the most unintentionally funny software ever created

mods can you please ban “david gerard” or whatever his name really is. ai hate is already out of hand without people coming to push their agenda like this

headline is inaccurate and downplays the incredible potential of ai. Google Gemini tried to kill this person AND their entire family

alright well now we have the perfect response to half the people who pop in from lemmy.world

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is “Nazi.”

it’s amazing how schools like these can graduate battalions of fools and people still take their diplomas as certificates of wordliness