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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It had already reached the university where I work by February 1!

And QAnon loons were already telling people to drink bleach in January.

(I remember a "welp, we're in for it now" moment when Trevor Bedford tweeted on the first of March that a genome analysis "strongly suggests that there has been cryptic transmission in Washington State for the past 6 weeks". The e-mail from the university chancellor saying that classes were canceled went out during the middle of a statistical-physics class I was teaching, the evening of March 11.)

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I can barely get past the image caption. "An AI made this". OK, and what did you ask it for, "random shit"?

And then there's the section that seems implicitly to be arguing that we should take the risk estimates made on "internet rationality forums" seriously because they totally called the COVID crisis, you guys... Well, they did a better job than an economist, anyway.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 28 points 2 years ago

I am listening to an audiobook of Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom.

Well, there's yer problem right there

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And it's been retracted:

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the nature of its AI-generated figures. The article does not meet the standards of editorial and scientific rigor for Frontiers in Cell and Development Biology; therefore, the article has been retracted.

This retraction was approved by the Chief Executive Editor of Frontiers. Frontiers would like to thank the concerned readers who contacted us regarding the published article.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"Aghast"? No, more like two or three ghast, at least

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

My informal impression is that they range from "OK" to "... the Hell?!".

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 18 points 2 years ago

As a physicist with a background in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics before moving to quantum information theory, let me reassure you that I speak from training and decades of experience when I say, "No, you dork ass loser."

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

You gave 'em the benefit of the doubt, but you can take it right back. :-)

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 2 years ago

"I don't even see the RFC 4648 anymore. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead..."

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 2 years ago

I think you mean "swing & a miss"

:-P

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 2 years ago

"Honest, babe, I'd only dump you for a ten-out-of-ten smokeshow as evaluated on my personal scale!"

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