maol

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[–] maol@awful.systems 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whoever said that all twitter bluechecks talk like anime villains was spot on

[–] maol@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They bought a second one? This is too much. I suppose Sam Bankman-Fried already proved EAies were terrible at picking investments when he decided to pursue purchasing Nauru (arguably the Most Unfortunate Island In The World) as a bolt-hole in case of apocalypse.

[–] maol@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There's a reason there aren't any aristocrats living in the shagging things anymore - you need a big staff and a lot of resources to run them! They only made economic sense when there were throngs of peasants to work in them for cheap or free, and people had very different expectations when it came to energy, heating and lighting.

It's hard to see what OpenAI could have gotten out of this purchase, except the chance to fulfil their Bond villain fantasies.

[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago (10 children)

a castle is not an "investment", it's a money pit.

[–] maol@awful.systems 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

the context for them purchasing an extremely expensive castle is they had a lot of money (no shit)

Ohhh the hypocrisy. Wasn't EA meant to tackle these kind of inefficiencies???

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago

He's a slavering racist who is inexplicably respectable.

[–] maol@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Harry Potter fanfiction bit is eye-watering. Tho' not as bad as saying he has a "strong sexually sadistic streak", then still encouraging "shy and underconfident" women to date him. Sorry, I just have to go puke....

Actually the whole thing is sickening. Bad cringe. Evil nerd stuff.

[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

As they say in Australia, he is cooked.

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Actually back in the 60s I think one of these skull-measuring types came to Ireland. He gave IQ tests to kids and concluded that we were a dysgenic, low-IQ people. So there's another "data point"

[–] maol@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

WHY ARE THEY DOING THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS THERE ARE REAL CHILD MARRAIGE SURVIVORS OUT THERE THEY CAN READ ABOUT

[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

This website perpetually relevant

If Bill Gates really wants to reduce the dangers of climate change, he should call up his old company and ask them to pull back from the massively energy-intensive, socially useless AI boondoggle......

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