Nick Bostrom irked that Oxford University expected his institute to produce work that was of a standard appropriate to its position in their philosophy department (awful.systems)
Kagi search engine, mod censorship, fun stuff (awful.systems)
Here's how I see it:...
When someone drops "immersion" when talking about VR (awful.systems)
“I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual,” Thiel wrote in an online libertarian journal in 2019 (awful.systems)
Bwahahahaha get fucked you unbearable scumsucking dork...
BasedBeffJezos has this girlfriend from Canada, you wouldn't know her (awful.systems)
Pass the popcorn, please....
New attempt at a fediverse Buttcoin (awful.systems)
By popular local demand, we’ve started a Buttcoin over at awful.systems. I’m not sure federation to/from kbin.social works without glitches yet, but here’s hoping, cross fingers etc. We do know it federates OK to other Lemmy instances and some Mastodon instances.
“We couldn’t find enough people for our Ponzi scheme, bye” (awful.systems)
Just a lil tidbit of news of some web3 based company going away.
"it’s like the stages of a rocket ship and racism was the first stage" (awful.systems)
Image taken from this tweet: twitter.com/softminus/status/1732597516594462840...
Spotted this ad in an old copy of Smash Hits. Possible tagline for this server? (awful.systems)
According to wikipedia, Runaway received “mixed reviews”.
Rationalist literary criticism by SBF, found on the birdsite (awful.systems)
original is here, but you aren’t missing any context, that’s the twit....
AGI Sparklings proponents rejoice! Finding a literal map(*) means LLMs have a world model. (awful.systems)
Source: nitter, twitter...
For future reference (awful.systems)
Stolen from mastodon.gamedev.place/…/109852367054141914
there's only one joke about libertarians, but it keeps turning up as true (awful.systems)
not the sort of thing you might expect to turn up in a commodities market fraud case, but then it’s crypto
Vieux Carré (awful.systems)
Made in honor of the latest how to drink (though this is the traditional recipe, not the one on that episode)...
lol get rekt (awful.systems)
Text: Headline: ChatGPT in Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day Subhead: OpenAI spends about $700,000 a day, just to keep ChatGPT going. The cost does not include other AI products like GPT-4 and DALL-E2. Right now, it si pulling through only because of Microsoft’s $10 billion...
Mellow Manhattan (awful.systems)
2oz mellow corn...
I wish one thousand billionaires `a very pleasant morning` (awful.systems)
OceanGate’s cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn’t stop pushing the limits of innovation...
imagine caring about accessibility and working for this person (awful.systems)
I talk a lot about how “empathy” in commercial UX is mostly a posture because in reality capitalism doesn’t care, but it’s important to consider the additional problem of people in charge who are too shallow to be capable of understanding “why” some people prefer, or need, to do things differently than they do....
with barely a hint of irony (awful.systems)
Universal Watchtowers (awful.systems)
by Monkeon, from the b3ta Mundane Video Games challenge
Eliezer reveals his inner chūnibyō and inability to do math. (awful.systems)
Source Tweet...
I will never get over how the pretty girl in the photo attached is LITERALLY Roko of the Basilisk's example of the bad ending for humanity (awful.systems)
really: archive.ph/p0jPI...
Hooked bibliography: Peter Thiel connection log (awful.systems)
Thought it worth sharing among so much very, very questionable material I’ve found in reading through the reference material of this book, I came across ths Blake Masters + Peter Thiel connection....
True nature of the universe (awful.systems)
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