sinedpick

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[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 4 points 2 years ago

do I also detect a hint of "failed to be a engineer/scientist but desperately still wants to appear like one"?

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 11 points 2 years ago

I'm sure Paulie G understands the necessity of regulators in a market which has real world consequences and is just being disingenuous here. If he actually believes the things he said i wouldn't care much, but he clearly knows what he's doing (as evidenced by replies). Fucking scum.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 22 points 2 years ago

Maybe it's a sort of recency bias but I feel like the old CNN/GAN image generators produced far more visually interesting "art" than the hyper-realistic unnerving shit that today's generative models put out.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Midjourney is profitable, so they fucked up BIG time. Imagine going bankrupt while someone else uses your technology to make money hand over fist.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What's wrong with the weed advice? Seems reasonable enough to me.

The 2 page treatise on inequality which is primarily impotent faffing about from "first principles" definitely hurt me though

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

I got a chuckle out of the coin concept artist's name "DonkeyHotey". Very fitting.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

just looked the guy up. He's handsome. He literally looks like Jerry Seinfeld (actually, he looks even more like Pablo Schreiber who played Nicky Sobotka in The Wire). What a god damned twat. (Not that being attractive makes any of his arguments any worse than they already are)

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

100 megameters with no issues? How could Tesla not be #1 in car reliability rankings with that kind of performance? The rankings make it seem pretty average in terms of reliability.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/who-makes-the-most-reliable-cars-a7824554938/

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Bankman-Fried is still doing what he can to spread the hype. Recently, one of the guards at the Brooklyn prison where he’s being held asked him for crypto trading advice, according to a person with knowledge of the interaction, who requested anonymity citing legal concerns. Bankman-Fried suggested the guard sell his XRP tokens and buy Solana.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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

who the FUCK is John Galt?

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

bronze age shawty's substack really tries to emulate meaningful artistic analysis but falls flat on its face because it's obviously working backwards from a conclusion. Fascinating.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

as a wannabe science/mathtist I totally feel the pain of realizing that I will probably never have any good, original ideas unless I actually dedicate my life to studying the works of people that actually had good, original ideas.

In these people, I see a version of me that didn't tell myself that all my stupid theories of the universe and consciousness are total unfalsifiable wastes of time. It's a type of "high-iq" psychosis.

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