I enjoyed a different type of takedown than our more usual method of pointing out the weird nested asumptions.

it has become painfully clear that there is some sort of intrinsic value to the truth of the art, of the experience that creates it, to the backstory that connects it to reality.

This has been a thing for a while now already, even before gen AI in gaming that there often was, for a lot of people a preference to playing with others, as in various games any npc AI, or randomly generated events (like in skyrims dynamic quests) were seen as less interesting than real human interactions/created things.

Ow yeah, the name is just foolish. Just think the idea of disclosing how sure you are as a community norm isn’t bad. Of course, they can’t even do that seriously.

Yeah, as somebody who actually thinks the Epistemic status stuff isnt a bad idea.

‘look at how they massacred my boy’

I do like the lack of selfawareness here of the leader of the anti-Agipocalypse house.

Yeah, if you are a bit weird, and create a weird cause you will attract weird people.

Get that heresy out of here, pope or nope!

Yeah been a while since I was confirmed (or believed) but the free will part of that was considered important from what I remember. So not only being a decent person, but also the choice to believe in and act on the faith.

Unrelated, but it is odd how much I have been thinking back about all that the last few years, esp more so the last year. Lot of it is due to the US gov being really keep on getting excommunications back on the menu. (Note this doesn’t make the church good in any way, like even if we ignore the coverup of the pedophilia, they went full anti trans recently).

I was not giving real advice on how to firebomb people. Hope that was clear.

On a different note, ‘our god means you have no free will’ is also quite opposed to what I got from Christianity.

Waterballoon molotovs.

And indeed on nr 2. Even sillier is of course that the AI doom people thought they could control people like this.

Yeah, because putting _'s around something is another way to your text TIL and all that.

The post after that is also a bit worrying

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Don’t forget to slash your slash \\ becomes \

E: wait the _ also needs to be slashed.

The sites below embody the virtues we are celebrating. Each author below has been offered a free ticket

Listing all those people a lot of whom have not mentioned they are coming feels so scummy. Putting https://www.smbc-comics.com/ on the list is bold however.

He is married to Galef?

CFAR? The ‘We can learn a lot from scientology courses’ guys?

E: No wait that was Lukeprog

Ow yes, I know, I’m not dragging on CNC (which imho if properly executed also has limits, the dominant party isn’t suddenly allowed to get into cutting after they watched a slasher movie if that wasn’t part of an agreement for example). And I think you can already do that in part with the lovesense stuff, if people agree to 24/h them. (Not sure about the batterylife of those things then whoever).

standard

non consensual

Not sure we can combine that.

Satanic pick-up artist

Oh my…

My mind went to pickup stuff more, had not thought of the sex magic angle, but makes total sense. Esp combining the two.

his e-book

If you ever borrow some of these books from people, like Anna for example, it is amazing how badly written they are.

According to a site : https://apocaloptimist.net/the-apocaloptimist/

“An Apocaloptimist sees the trouble, but is optimistic we can do anything–including fixing all the world’s problems”

So if jesus wins the war during the second coming all problems are fixed.

(The thing is also nuts “we are the people actually working on fixing things [by hoping AGI will fix it all for us]”, my brother in Eschatology you are running a podcast sorry the guy is unrelated to the agi people theyvare just using his term).

E: does seem the site itself isnt about AI so they just stole this guys term. Nope they just took this clean energy guys term, sorry about sneering at him he seems to actually want to introduce clean energy and works hard (that seems to be a lot of conventions and blogging however, so buying ourself out of the capitalist problems) for it, as far as I can tell.