swlabr

joined 2 years ago
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's his alt for people who want more yud spam, hence "all the yud." From his twitter bio:

This is my serious low-volume account. Follow @allTheYud for the rest.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

It’s on sight with all these fucks holy shit

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

I liked the part where the reviewer is mysteriously compelled to visit France while reading this novel, which is notably set in France.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’d chalk it up to the LWer inability to a) summarise and/or summarise accurately, and/or b) LLM usage.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

Username is one “t” off from being an anagram for enteritis

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

smdh for not welcoming vampires in for peaceful discourse and good faith debates instead

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

these fucks: "Don't make me tap the sign!!!"

the sign: "My final braincell fell out of my open mouth while drooling"

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but I also still think superintelligence shouldn’t be built, because if we’re letting Sam Altman and Elon Musk dictate the “values” encoded into it I do not want to live in that world

Well, sure. FWIW most of us here are on one of two trains:

  1. "superintelligence" will never be built
  2. There is no clear path from where we are technologically that leads to "superintelligence," so there isn't much point to worrying about it.

Of course, there is something to be said about not wanting anyone throwing money at Musk or Altman because they've conned people into thinking we're on the cusp. But yeah, I would say most people here do not share this concern, just as no one should be concerned about a dragon razing their town.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

One of my ongoing sidequests is creating a K-pop playlist of songs that describe the lifecycle of a bubble economy. I only discover songs through accident right now, so progress on this playlist is slow, but that means that I can store the whole list in my head. Here's the current playlist:

  1. "Golden" by Huntrix from KPOP Demon Hunters. "We're going up! up! up!"
  2. "Bubble Pop!" by HyunA. Self explanatory

And finally, I can announce a new addition to this collection:

Antifragile by LE SSERAFIM. Specifically, this is included as a reference to NNT's book and concept Antifragile. I think this is a good song to have at the end of the playlist to represent the economic analysis before and after a bubble.

OFC I am open to suggestions! They have to be K-pop though.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

theyrenotconfessingtheyrebragging.flac

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/meta@awful.systems
 

Wish I had a screengrab of this, but occasionally when I open the awful.systems page, it looks like I've logged in as a different user. Just now the username "autumnal" appeared instead of my own. Don't know how to reproduce.

This has happened in chrome on macosx a few times, haven't seen it elsewhere.

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VoughtCoin (the-boys.fandom.com)
 

TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

 

Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

 

As is tradition I am sharing this link without having listened yet.

 

The video game in question:

 

Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

 

Just a lil tidbit of news of some web3 based company going away.

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