Treacle Eaters

I think it’s because they think they’re the elite of society who will ride out climate change and don’t give a shit if they kill three billion people as long as those people are mostly in the global south because they’re racist too.

They recognize the groundswell of anti AI sentiment and want to try and channel it into AI booster action. Good luck with that.

It’s full of knowledge I want but buried in lots of text I don’t wanna read.

You show up, you put a ton of effort into a post, and at the end the comment section will tear apart some random thing that isn’t load bearing for your argument, isn’t something you consider particularly important, and whose discussion doesn’t illuminate what you are trying to communicate

Man if only LW posters knew how to use the delete key to shorten their posts to only the load bearing parts, which they consider particularly important and who’s discussion illuminates what they were trying communicate. Alas.

Counting or not counting prosecutions that end with the defendent vindicated and almost a million dollars richer?

This is worse for Ezra Klein than when he said kirk was ‘doing politics right.’

Wow this is stupendously stupid: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/its-much-easier-to-hold-computers

Willfully misses the point that systems are unaccountable, not physical devices. Yes self driving cars are covered in cameras. But we revoke the licenses of drivers every day while allowing self driving cars on the road when the same model has caused accidents for which a human driver would have their keys taken away. We fire employees much more readily than we fire SAAS vendors. And if a person had posted what Grok did I suspect they would be in custody right now.

Let’s just ignore the parts of the globe that also got raped and pillaged under colonialism and didn’t turn into moontouching superpowers I guess.

Which is both the original transhumanist cope to enable so-called consciousness upload so it’s not just copying a simulacrum of your personality to a computer while you continue to rot away

Often-missed point btw.

Sort of an aside, but let’s soap box about why the Lab Leak theory is a thing:

What I don’t get about lableak enthusiasts is why they insist that it’s not just a lab leak, but also a lab leak of an other than natural virus. Hell, if you wanted to try and fit the facts but still explain the spooky coincidence, envision a just-so scenario where someone caught (proto) covid while collecting samples in a cave, went back to work at the lab, infected everyone while buying groceries at the market.

Nobody makes up a story like that! It’s always a credibility-straining cover-up paired with claims about an engineered virus that don’t fit the facts. That makes me think they don’t care about the facts at all, and instead just really want to be able to blame something-anything-besides their own countrys’ ineffectual responses to the virus for the death and mayhem.

Lab leak is a slight of hand, but don’t be fooled; how patient zero happened isn’t relevant for the purposes of evaluating how a certain very popular right wing someone managed to fall down flat the one time he was actually called upon to act as a leader.