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[–] 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.

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

"Kicked out of a ... group chat" is a peculiar definition of "offline consequences".

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

(thinks)

(thinks)

I get it!

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In commenting, we did not disclose that an AI was used to write comments, as this would have rendered the study unfeasible.

If you can't do your study ethically, don't do your study at all.

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

Congratulations on your discovery of the concept of web forum moderation. Bye now.

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

OK, this isn't about AI slop, but it is complaining about Wikipedia. Its article about that kind of "amnesia" named by gobshite Michael Crichton is shoddily sourced and seemingly in violation of the site's policies.

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

Even setting aside the fact that Crichton coined the term in a climate-science-denial screed — which, frankly, we probably shouldn't set aside — yeah, it's just not good media literacy. A newspaper might run a superficial item about pure mathematics (on the occasion of the Abel Prize, say) and still do in-depth reporting about the US Supreme Court, for example. The causes that contribute to poor reporting will vary from subject to subject.

Remember the time a reporter called out Crichton for his shitty politics and Crichton wrote him into his next novel as a child rapist with a tiny penis? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

I'm going to take the fact that this was downvoted independently by all three site admins as sufficient reason to escort this commenter to the egress.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That Wikipedia article is impressively terrible. It cites an opinion column that couldn't spell Sokal correctly, a right-wing culture-war rag (The Critic) and a screed by an investment manager complaining that John Oliver treated him unfairly on Last Week Tonight. It says that the "Gell-Mann amnesia effect is similar to Erwin Knoll's law of media accuracy" from 1982, which as I understand it violates Wikipedia's policy.

By Crichton's logic, we get to ignore Wikipedia now!

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