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[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 11 hours ago

But Star Trek says the smartest guys in the room don't have emotions

[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

Bruce Wayne asserts to Alfred in The Dark Knight that "Batman has no limits." But what if, and this has gone totally unconsidered by anyone up until now... Buttman also has no limits????

[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago

Central Preference Vector seems like a fantastic band name if some producer was trying to mainstream industrial music

[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

It helps sanewash their own prejudices. "See, this guy could be talked down from the worst of it, aren't we reasonable by comparison?"

[–] istewart@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're going to be headline sponsors of Fyre Festival II

[–] istewart@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

lol wow, I'm cackling at Gackle. Perhaps we can call his brand of caping for polo-shirt fascism "gackin' off"

[–] istewart@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

This reinforces my judgment that the ultimate customers for code-completion models are people who don’t actually want to be writing code in the first place.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

If you step back and think about it, it is rather absurd that a time-sharing multi-user OS essentially took over for personal devices

[–] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

alas, there is no honor or glory to be had from winning the meme race

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can't help but feel like for Ellison in particular, he must have given himself no choice but to believe this stuff is more capable than it is. He's 80 years old now, and if building towards honest-to-god "real AI" wasn't what his whole career was about, then what was the point? The twilight of the older generations of tech executives is going to be its own special kind of pathology.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Not sure where this came from, but it can't be all bad if it chaos-dunks on Yudkowsky like this. Was relayed to me via Ed Zitron's Discord, hopefully the Q isn't for Quillete or Qanon

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