blakestacey

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Words need to be chosen with care, since they all have a specific meaning and end up in a specific place in latent space once they’ve been turned into numbers and multiplied with each other

If I am ever that pompous, please just deliver me to the farm upstate

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

Fuckin' dammit. At least it's not my old department... yet...

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

\begin{equation} /\!\! \curlywedge \circledcirc_{\,\smallsmile\!\smallsmile} \! \circledcirc \curlywedge \! \backslash \end{equation}

spoilerKyubey from Madoka Magica, except in LaTeX

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago

Of course, like everyone else present at the Big Bang, I clapped and was excited and tried everything I could think of — from translating phrases to generating poems, to generating code, to asking these LLMs things I would never ask a living being.

"Like everyone else in my social circle, which I confuse with the entirety of the world, I am easily distracted by jangling keys"

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

Well, as ever with Musk, the verb thinks has to be used in a loose sense, to refer to whatever thoughtlike products he brings back from the bottom of a K-hole.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It matters what Musk thinks because, as the article explains, he's suing them.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Well, LW is only being no more wrong than Andrew Tate there, so they don't deserve too many points.

And Yud himself went full-blown anti-seed-oil.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Fuckers betraying the basic principles of a science education....

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

Well, Timeless Decision Theory was, like the rest of their ideological package, an excuse to keep on believing what they wanted to believe. So how does one even tell if they stopped "taking it seriously"?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago

"Diamondoid bacteria" is just a way to say "nanobots" while edging

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

And thus Poker Face joins Sandman in the "no longer interested in Season 2" pile, but for different reasons.

The plot of Uncanny Valley centers on “a teenage girl who becomes unmoored by a hugely popular AR video game in a parallel present.”

So, Tron again, then. But with goggles this time.

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