swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

If you want to hang out, you've gotta take her out, tech brain

If you want to get down, down on the ground, tech brain

AGI, say goodbye, ROI, tech brain

-Eric “Slophand” Slopton

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 4 hours ago

Got curious and wanted to see if I could beat the Atari 2600. Found an online emulator here.

"Easiest" difficulty appears to be 8, followed by 1, then increasing in difficulty up to 7. I can beat 8, and the controls and visuals are too painful for me to try anything more than this.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

SRD suspects a Palantir psyop

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

AI doomers in MI:FRSo in FR, there’s a “rogue AI” that starts taking over cyberspace, and quickly gains control of the nuclear arsenals of some countries. This prompts some people to believe that the AI will bring about a humanity evolution event through doomsday, so they decide to go full Basilisk and begin infiltrating different organisations in order to help the AI take over the world.

Compare & contrast to LW doomers, who nominally want to prevent AI from going rogue or killing everyone, but are also nominally supposed to infiltrate various organisations to stop AI development, up to and including nuclear strikes on data centres (lol)

Anyway, best moment for me was when the MC fights an AI doomers and tells him he spends too much time on tje internet.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Just watched MI: Final Reckoning. Spoiler free comments: I didn’t know that this and the previous film featured an AI based plot. AI doomers feature in a funny way, seemingly inspired by LW doomers, tho definitely not.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 13 hours ago

They’ll be paid in unlimited gold dust specks a million years from now

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

Ah, I guess it just really do be like that sometimes!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

No shade: was this post intentionally cross/reposted here? Original thread.

E: ah, this is from mastodon. I don’t know how federation etc. works.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Time for my infrequent missive about the intersection of sneerspace and comedy podcasts. The current episode of one of my favourite comedy podcasts, Doughboys, jumpscared me today when one of the hosts, Mitch, came back from a toilet break and independently came up with the fundamentals of Roko's Basilisk (the torture in cyberspace part). Anyway here it is, or if you want, you can start with the context of the toilet break. What's important to note is that these guys do not try to present themselves as intelligent, and usually present themselves as stupid.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 5 days ago

Ah yes show me a senior engineer that writes tests for their intern’s code. So productive. Much ROI

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fractal sneer!!! I’m spinning out reading this. Every fucking pixel of this is cursed

 

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Tickled pink that BI has decided to platform the AI safety chuds. OFC, the more probable reason of “more dosh” gets mentioned, but most of the article is about how Anthropic is more receptive to addressing AI safety and alignment.

 

Burns said the driving force behind the Runway deal was to allow filmmakers to “make movies and television shows we’d otherwise never make. We can’t make it for $100 million, but we’d make it for $50 million because of AI… We’re banging around the art of the possible. Let’s try some stuff, see what sticks.”

read: "I huffed my own farts and passed out. This gave me a dream where we made a film via promptfondling. I decided that I'll make a press release with made up numbers based on that dream."

As reported by New York Magazine: “With a library as large as Lionsgate’s, they could use Runway to repackage and resell what the studio already owned, adjusting tone, format and rating to generate a softer cut for a younger audience or convert a live-action film into a cartoon.”

read: "There's no need to do requels like disney does. The serfs will gobble the slop and they'll like it. After all, why risk creating new jobs or any creative output when we could just melt the ice caps instead?"

As for another example of how the studio can use AI, Burns said to consider this scenario: “We have this movie we’re trying to decide whether to green-light. There’s a 10-second shot — 10,000 soldiers on a hillside with a bunch of horses in a snowstorm.” Using Runaway’s AI technology, the studio can avoid a pricy film shoot that would cost millions and take a few days and use AI to create the shot for about $10,000.

read: "Here's a bottle of my farts. Smell it. Feeling dizzy? Good. Now imagine a scenario where you're looking at your bank account, and instead of number go down, number go up. Isn't that nice? Have another whiff."

 

Take that, Saltman! Bet you never thought it was possible!

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Original Title: Elizabeth Holmes’s Partner Has a New Blood-Testing Start-Up

Billy Evans has two children with the Theranos founder, who is in prison for fraud. He’s now trying to raise money for a testing company that promises “human health optimization.”

Original link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/business/elizabeth-holmes-partner-blood-testing-startup.html

 

Original NYT title: Billionaire Airbnb Co-Founder Is Said to Take Role in Musk’s Government Initiative

 

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OFC if there were any real sense or justice in the world, LLMs would be banned outright.

 

No link given because it's all over the news. If you ask for proof you're going to have to eat my ass.

A lot of people are going to say it wasn't intended as a Nazi salute, and to that, I say: it doesn't matter. Was it a dog whistle? A variation of a Nazi salute from a South African neo-nazi party? Or just the vanilla salute? Such pontification is a waste of time. Fokker is a Nazi; you didn't need to see him salute. To all the regulars here, Musk being a Nazi is just an axiom of his whole deal. I mean, it's not called technofascism for nothing.

 

Just for my personal pride, I would like to state that the father of my children was the first american druid in diablo to clear abattoir of zir and ended that season as best in the USA. He was also ranking in Polytopia, and beat Felix himself at the game. I did observe these things with my own eyes. There are other witnesses who can verify this. That is all.

 

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“If all of this sounds like a libertarian fever dream, I hear you. But as these markets rise, legacy media will continue to slide into irrelevance.”

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