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dgerard

@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit

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Some forms are - but many are not! The fun stuff is in Appendix 2, the responses.

dgerard,
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this is a reblog of the NYT story:

Many current and former employees said Mr. Chaudhri and Ms. Bongiorno preferred positivity over criticism, leading them to disregard warnings about the Ai Pin’s poor battery life and power consumption. A senior software engineer was dismissed after raising questions about the product, they said, while others left out of frustration.

archive.ph/HcItE

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and yet you signed up to Awful Systems

dgerard,
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robot anti defamation league on line three

dgerard,
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the sort of quality content sneerclub exists for!

dgerard,
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The basilisk is explicitly the Good AI, doing this for the good of all humanity! It’s just unfortunate that requires putting Roko into a locker over and over for eternity

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i’m sorry Mr Mijic, your tamagotchi is not going to have a good day

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especially love how she describes how tired everyone seems

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it’s pretty clear this has already happened. The Singularity Is Here And It’s Dumb As Shit.

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it means cryptography with algorithms that will be resistant to quantum computers that are any good

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pushing 100%, they already tried to sneak in a TOS provision to do just that

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Spoken like a chatbot you mean. (raises suspicious eyebrow at Definitely-Human Notabot, CEO)

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he admits it dot webp

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Ouija Board, Sexy Lady Voice Edition

dgerard,
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it is true that he would vanquish Derek Guy by just sucking so much

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Well would you fucking believe it: it turns out that deplatforming your horrible arseholes fixes the problems! (archive)

(well, until one of the problems scrapes together $44b and buys the platform)

every fuckin time

bsky comment:

the number of times i have seen even a small private forum or discord server go from “daily fights” to “everyone gets along” by just banning one or two loud assholes is uncountable

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Microsoft was never good, they just felt constrained. Those are different.

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btw, this needs to be posted to AO3 with tags “Dimes Square” “Honor Levy” “Peter Thiel” “Urbit”

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