Can’t stop laughing at “drives public outcomes AT SCALE”, when you can’t decide if you’re a political org or a software consultancy.
Operationalizing into a synergistic workflow-driven organization with the energy of a startup that drives impactful public platforms at web scale for the AI revolution
Episode #2137 in the saga of “turns out people actually willing to firebomb a Walmart don’t have well-thought-out rational politics”
or AI ‘risk’ ‘researcher’
Actually, we can scare quotes the “AI” as well
Do NOT violate the sacred NAP!
Yes, I know they are different kinds of “anarchists” and not really full anarchists like us.
My dude what in the world
Wh… What
Jesus what an opening shot
I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the one hand, this is very silly because I’m a humanities PhD who mostly writes about comic books. On the other hand, we’re talking about a field in which one of the most influential thinkers is a Harry Potter fanfic writer who never attended high school, so it’s not like I’ve got imposter syndrome.
Now I gotta read the rest
I saw glimpses of someone playing some weird shit on a mobile phone, so I texted my bff group chat that it looks like someone’s playing a pokemon game but it’s anime girls racing around a track or something, but it was 18:30 in public transit, hard day at work, really hot, so I was like probably I’m hallucinating something
Then the responses I got were like “ye it’s probably this very popular Umami Horny Derby game where you date horse waifus, everyone’s been playing it for weeks” and I haven’t been more depressed in ages
I’m really tickled by the fact that we can’t fully automate trains yet. I never thought about it, but put into perspective how asinine self-driving cars are if we can’t achieve the same thing with a train, something that is vastly more tractable and less chaotic than road traffic.
I’m not familiar with any of these and it makes me immensely happy.
To be honest I’m mortified that there exists a person who interacts with that and calls her a “fabulous conversationalist”. Ah yes, gish gallop personified, exactly what I want in the person I talk to. What the fuck is the purpose for which you engage with a conversation if this is the “fabulous” outcome??
In this collection’s finest work, Levy’s sentences are cold poetry of a sort. She deals individual cards rather than handles an entire deck. Her stories are vignettes, and the observations whoosh past your ears: “We wouldn’t be collectivizing the Adderall sector”; on drugs, “I could dig a hole to China and save the Uyghurs”; “Ronan Farrow is the only person who could truly relate to him”; “No one wants a Holocaust comparison, but isn’t this what we learned on those field trips we all had to take to museums of tolerance?”; “I wonder where the girls with mustache finger tattoos are now”; “Last night, Ivan and I were texting about all the hot art-world-adjacent millennial girls he knows who have been diagnosed with autism.” There are jokes about taking Greta Thunberg’s and Barron Trump’s virginity.
The lesser work in “My First Book” sinks to high school graduation speech level. “We are the future of the planet” and “I wonder if we will ever get to where we are going” and “Time has never moved faster than it is moving right now” and so on.
I’m sorry, “lol girls with mustache fingers” is high literature but “we are the future of the planet” is stupid? Did the author flip a coin on each of those to decide where it’d go?
Also what the fuck is this about Adderall, I don’t even understand what it would mean to collectivise “the Adderall sector”, but wasn’t there a shortage of ADD medication not so long ago where people who needed it couldn’t get it? Wouldn’t we want to collectivise this??
searches Dimes Square, wikipedia
Dimes Square is a so-called “microneighborhood” of New York City, located between the Chinatown and Lower East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan.
Okay, sure
The term Dimes Square has become a metonym for a number of associated reactionary aesthetic movements centered in the area, particularly several events and podcasts funded by Peter Thiel.
Why do we continue on this Earth even though it’s clearly a doomed endeavour?
Media associated with the area include the podcast Red Scare
click
The show has been associated with the dirtbag left and the new right,
“New right” redirects to “Right-wing populism” and I would like anyone to explain to me how is the same old reactionary nonsense “new” in any way. In any case, how the fuck is it possible to be associated with anti-fascists and fascists at the same time?
as well as the subculture surrounding Dimes Square. It has been described in The Cut as “a critique of feminism, and capitalism, from deep inside the culture they’ve spawned.”
“Hey, how about we pick two bad things to focus on?”
“Capitalism…”
“That’s a great choice, plenty of terrible stuff there…”
“… and feminism.”
“… You were doing so well.”
What even is this ideology? Reactionaries but with bubble tea?
What is, and I mean this with all sincerity of my heart, any of this fucking bullshit?
wdym non-personified, it’s this guy
I like ‘Star Wars’ way better. I’m a capitalist. ‘Star Wars’ is the capitalist show. ‘Star Trek’ is the communist one. There is no money in ‘Star Trek’ because you just have the transporter machine that can make anything you need. The whole plot of ‘Star Wars’ starts with Han Solo having this debt that he owes and so the plot in ‘Star Wars’ is driven by money [~Peter Thiel]
Your Honor, my client might’ve murdered mr. Thiel with a Lego model of a Star Destroyer, but as witnessed by Exhibit A he acted in good faith and as what can only be described as service to the community. We move for full acquittal.
the speed of light is not something you can hand-wave away
sorry i just woke up at 4am and realised that bitcoin actually fixes this so i retract my fud
Jesus, that math crankery post is mind-boggling.
SCSPL, which stands for Self-Configuring Self-Processing Language, is just a totally intrinsic, i.e. completely self-contained, language that is comprehensively and coherently (self-distributively) self-descriptive
Okay but is it also self-fuckable in the sense of being able to go fuck itself?
The essay is great, but I’d like to stop on this for a second:
the conclusion I draw as a science fiction writer is that if interstellar colonization ever happens, it will not follow the pattern of historical colonization drives that are followed by mass emigration and trade between the colonies and the old home soil.
Okay, but we don’t need that much of a thought experiment to get there. Gliese 832 c is 16 light years away. That means that even if we figured out every technological issue with calling a colony there via Skype, we would have a message latency of 32 years. Can you fucking imagine negotiating a trade treaty where each round of negotiations takes THIRTY-TWO YEARS? How many Earth governments even remain stably in power for 32 years? Of course transporting the actual trade goods would take even longer. So, you negotiate a treaty over three generations of human beings, and then get the actual goods delivered in, optimistically, a few centuries. We’re so good at planning things in advance that climate change will wipe us out in like 50 years, good luck running a trade operation where a freight you ordered will be delivered to your great-great-grandchildren.
With colonisation at best you’re gonna get a bunch of disorganised human clusters that will grow culturally and ideologically apart really quick. It’s obvious on its face that this wouldn’t be a somehow coherent society. Again, how do you plan to organise a government structure where a single memo takes THIRTY-TWO YEARS to be acknowledged? Did anyone in TESCREAL ever grapple with the fact that our globalisation age was brought forth thanks to near-instantenous communications, and that’s flat out impossible on an interstellar scale? Like, the speed of light is not something you can hand-wave away, it’s a physical barrier to information.
Dead dove, dead dove!