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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

The discussion in the comments has continued in a low-key way. Now they're making excuses for why the nutbar is incomprehensible:

To understand why Chris thinks this way, it's important to remember that he had never been acculturated into the norms of the modern intellectual elite...

Langan has been "working" on the CTMU since the 1990s. People have been born since then and have had time to learn how to talk like academics.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Team members can ask the app questions like “How should I set this oven temperature?” rather than turning to training materials or tapping through an app interface.

Yep, that's a health code violation in the making.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

The failure mode of clever continues to be asshole.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Name suggestion: Spider Plant Greenhouse

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

Six Double Oh Eww

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The MIT alum in me wants to devise some variation on "Building 20" that conveys a "but without the worse aspects of MIT subculture" kind of message.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Margaret Hamilton Society

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

acatinulthar reblogged this from nihilsupernum and added:

I think that this is probably a parody but it honestly sounds like excellent life advice.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He claimed a new, faster version of the Stable Diffusion image generator released earlier this month could generate “200 cats with hats per second.”

Pointless. The set of any type of funny cat picture on the Internet is already infinite.

The Financial Times reported Friday that the company made $5.4 million of revenue in February, against $8 million in costs. Several sources said there are ongoing concerns about making payroll for the roughly 150 remaining employees. Leadership roles have gone vacant for months amid the disarray, leaving the company increasingly directionless.

"... the AI-ristocrats!"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The repair should be put to commercial bid with a massive incentive for early and safe completion.

Fast, safe, cheap: pick two.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Transhumanism descended from Fyodorov's Cosmism, the Ineffectual Dork Web is shot through with whatever batshit Jordan Peterson is on, LessWrong can't tell that Christopher Langan is a kook....

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

oh

i lost my cushy tech job because of twitter. the one i worked so hard for in my youth. the one i was going to pull my family out of poverty with. but instead i am a martyr in the culture wars of based capital versus woke capital. i am gaza.

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