mohKohn

in the bay? you're hilarious.

the assassination of Alexander the second backfired completely.

many other places bury their wires and or do proper maintenance

my bike.

found the astronomer

weird grammar to say someone made it up?

I'm sorry Russian cat girls? Wat?

There's a distinction to be made between things that "look" dystopian, and actual dystopias. I think a lot of our current visual language of dystopia was taken from fascist/communist design choices which were in many respects independent of all the oppression they perpetrated. this example really drove that home for me, since the media it inspired came to mind before the reality.

wow, I was assuming metropolis. it just screams dystopia to me, but I guess they had to get that aesthetic from somewhere

12 people. we're talking about 12 people, so any conclusions are suspect. that being said, facial recognition struggling with black faces from insufficient data is an extremely common problem, so it'd be unsurprising

you know, I'm not sure I've seen a subtweet on the fediverse until now.

the specific people are all (with the exception of Sam Altmann) grifters. they are

1. guy whose sub imploded at the titanic
   2 Sam Altman, head of OpenAI (which went from charity to a wing of Microsoft).
2. Sam Bankman Freid's brother, who was talking about buying an island to carry "effective altruists" through an extinction-level event.

It pisses me off that these are the first EA adjacent people that are broadly well-known, rather than Givewell and 80,000 hours, who are actually doing good work.