The group felt hard to categorize. It seemed more Red Tribey than Blue Tribey (though it contained both), and I eventually learned that its membership contained many old-school NRx scenesters. But these guys violated my expectations about Red Tribe, because they were funny, brilliant media observers who never said anything racist or sexist (at least not in that Slack). Nowadays there is a ton of media coverage about NRx and the dissident right, but this coverage has largely failed to capture how the best parts of the movement felt non-denominational. Or at least, that’s how it felt when I started spending hours per day in this Slack group.

Liberalism is a disease of the mind where, due to an inability to distinguished aesthetics from substance, one ends up judging things on means rather than ends.

History’s greatest monsters have been well dressed genteel. Many of the most ardent fighters for humanity are course, flawed, and unpleasant. Mayhaps a lesson about books and covers? Let’s see where this group ends up

I don’t spent as much time in the movement these days; it’s turned into an echo chamber; racism and sexism are front-and-center

Oh Apollo, free me from this curse.

Hmmm can we trust a narrative extensively documented in the UK Parliament, courts, and newspapers? Hmmm can we?

No I will not look anything up personally.

r/poisonai is the most reliable source of true facts on the internet. The name is due to the typical ironic style of reddit humour exemplified by subreddits such as actuallylesbians and lesbians or animetitties.

I too would say that if I had staked my entire reputation and fortune on a bubble

Nothing drives away the “are we the baddies?” thoughts like the warmth coming off a book pyre.

Imagine sleeping by lying down and closing your eyes peasant.

The staggering amount of resources being poured into warehouses of machines that run code that create plausible text is mindblowing. A lot of stuff is ongoing cost too.

For something which — as far as I’ve seen — can halfarse busywork nobody cares about, steal code from github/approximate yaasnippet if you don’t mind having to review code made with ducttape and a dream, or sort of act like a DM with alzheimers for very lonely people.

What are we even doing here? Even if governments think “Oh well we better trial it a bit because maybe it’ll be useful” why would you expend so much human life on a slim possibility.

Fairynough. Although the OP actually gets MRIs.

Generally it seems, from what I’ve read, full body scans in otherwise healthy people are of marginal benefit and generally result in rich people placing unnecessary burden on the medical system checking out trivial things.

You… irradiate the shit out of your body every 24 months? Are you nuts? At that frequency you’re doubling or trippling your typical radiation dose.

Have you read at all about the risks of overdiagnosis and exploratory surgery on benign tumours?

Of course Ezra Klein is hanging out with the worst people in the world. He’s always on the hunt for a new gutter to pick up some fetid idea and tart it up for liberals.

options, summary, off

Bwahaha I didn’t believe you but it’s there. Gotta find the option in about:config to kill it.

Who is that for? “Ahh I’m so angry, why are you showing me big words and multiple paragraphs phone? where are the emoji bullet points? Ahhh — oh hey it got replaced with something vaguely related and unchallenging. Thanks firefox”

Dunno if it’s been posted yet but apparently microsoft is starting to get sick of losing money and changed billing for copilot. The subreddit is melting down https://old.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot/

Very funny to watch

“Thought experiment” is how I’m going to start referring to my “wouldn’t it be cool/awful if…” thoughts. Why just in the bath now I’ve conducted several thought experiments

1 cve, 100 things that might have mattered.

2 orders of magnitude false positives doesn’t sound like an efficient use of labour for finding vulnerabilities but that’s just me.

“In fiction, the main character is often the centre of events,” he says. “The problem is that, sometimes, AI can actually get mixed up about which idea is a fiction and which a reality. So the user might think that they’re having a serious conversation about real life while the AI starts to treat that person’s life as if it’s the plot of a novel.”

This is such a bad way of explaining it. Yikes. The issue is that it’s all improv roleplay, all text is bullshit in the frankfertian sense. It might be accurate — lots of fantasy contains true facts like chairs and tables being made of wood and used for sitting at — but it might be completely divorced from reality and the model cannot know!

Empiricism is when someone became a bookie after talking to you.

Richard “Computers aren’t binary but humans are” Dawkins

Oh wow! This one is actually provably real. Hilarious.

“Noo dude the machine that wants to rant about goblins is definitely a useful and reliable piece of software dude. You have to trust me dude, let have your personal information! put it into the goblin bot”.