Welcome to the project, my friend. The dream is within reach

what too much evopsych on the TL does to an mf

I saw Ultron once in the theater, and promptly regretted it as a poor-quality movie that wasted the talents of most of its cast. Yud (and ghostwriter) seem like they may have watched it multiple times, with notepad in hand. We are not the same

I genuinely wonder what the successor enterprise to Tesla will be like, i.e., the equivalent to the outfit down in Houston that owns all the leftover OEM spare parts for DeLoreans.

Someone in the comments of this review also said that AI is on track to master…metabolism. somehow

LLM-intermediated poster experiencing model collapse due to overtraining on “One Weird Trick To Shed Belly Fat” ads

Was Changpeng Zhao trying to send us a message all along

Consider for a moment where this fellow’s breathing tube and/or proboscis looks to be routed.

The thesis is that the putative type III civilization is harvesting all energy output of its galaxy. I haven’t often seen respiration of methane and/or miscellaneous volatile products of digestion on transhumanist bingo cards, but evidently it’s indicated in the original material.

“Oh bother, I’ve fallen onto another one of these fart-propelled flight platforms and I can’t get up”

Sounds like a marketing tagline for a failed “As Seen on TV” sort of gadget, tbh

This was about where I gave up on Attack on Titan

going thru it myself, can report that non-graded “suggested exercises,” with exams being the only graded material, is not any better

who in the hell would want programmable matter anymore, after they’ve seen what happened to plain ol’ computer programming as already practiced

‘it’ll be Good beyond our wildest imagination’

pumpkin spice season will be permanent

It’s not working, I spotted a probable hackernews all the way out in Modesto last week, they’re like the goddamn nutria now

I would like to announce that I have committed last night’s Taco Bell to the septic system. Please clap

I can’t help but think it’s another instance of the unquestioning Californian Ideology assumption that all new technology is inherently liberatory.

woah damn why does this look exactly like some Kurzweil bullshit

I considered trying to get an account there, but the last ~18 months or so have made me feel the same way about Lobste.rs as I do about Bluesky. If you’re just running a lower-traffic version of the thing you’re trying to “improve” upon with slightly different moderation policies, you’re not going to build a lasting platform or community.

Lobste.rs is analogous to methadone treatment for Hacker News, prove me wrong

vicious traditionalism that refuses to create new things

The “vicious traditionalism” that develops among his fellow travelers, who insist that some form of autonomous, inscrutable AI has to be the next step in technological progress, will be something to see. Religious movements don’t just stop when their central prophecy disappoints.