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o7___o7, 7 days ago

monkey paw moment

o7___o7, 8 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Men have two niches in life: looking beautiful and making phallic machines

The first niche will be taken by sexbots

The second, entertainingly, also by sexbots

Society will suddenly realize it doesn’t need men and those in power will quickly start replacing and disempowering them.

People like to consider the positive implications of technology but they don’t like to consider the negative implications

The smart strategy for men would be to ban ALL of the following:

<span style="color:#323232;"> sexbots
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> artificial dongs
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> transformers
</span>

Nobody except men should be allowed to look sexy(manly sexy), look male or be bears.[1]

To some extent TUFF men like @RokoMijic are smart enough to realize that it’s essential to defend the male monopoly on this stuff. But the average man just isn’t strategic enough to go along with this, and there’s (as always) a collective action problem so you get defectors.

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[1] Women get to keep the Oxford comma.

o7___o7, 8 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Take Optimus Prime, for example:

Pros:

• Strong as a Mac Truck
• v tall
• kind to children and animals
• leads by building consensus
• woke af

Cons:

• Smells like diesel fumes
• not good for cuddles (Edit: new information has come to light!)

o7___o7, 10 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Considering how many attendees were probably recent crypto enthusiasts…

“thin, sort of stretched, like butters scraped over too much bread.”

Edit: Even though a news worthy amount of dumb shit happens in Tennessee on the reg, I’ve been smug about the fact that at least this flavor of reified dystopia is something that happens over yonder on the west coast. After reading this article I feel violated, like someone broke into my house and defiled it while I was on vacation.

A+ writing softened the blow. (except the parts about the Holocaust, old folks, and dogs. That was grim as hell)

o7___o7, 5 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Who is more evolutionarily fit: a deaf person who appreciates technological progress and has kids, or an unloved eugenics enjoyer posting on hacker news?

o7___o7, 7 days ago

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40611600

It will never stop being incredibly funny that in the past 24 months an untold legion of people have emerged from heroic doses of shrooms/LSD clutching a note that just has “what if u could chat with a pdf???” scrawled on it

o7___o7, 14 days ago

The promptfondlers have learned (by way of multiple public thrashings) not to get into technical arguments with The Parrot Posse, so tedious innuendo about communism and cancel culture is all they have left.

o7___o7, 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

Where are the bed sheets?

Also, where are the family photos? Framed art? Kid drawings?

Edit: Cobra Commander and the Baroness at home in a GI-Joe movie directed by Michael Bay circa 2008.

Edit2: Evil Sean Astin

Edit3: I’ve never seen a three-piece suit with dungarees. It’s the mullet of suits: business on the top, party on the bottom.

I’m sorry, I’m being awfully mean and petty on the internet today.

o7___o7, 19 days ago

The children yearn for the mines

o7___o7, 18 days ago

Own-goals count as goals, I guess.

o7___o7, 19 days ago

p-zombies, but nazis

o7___o7, 18 days ago

Looks like someone’s behind the times; all the cool kids are into the Eastern Roman Empire this season. That’s why my kids are named Constantine Cataphractus and Velociraptor Paleologus.

o7___o7, 20 days ago

These people are just reacting to their trauma and acting like they’ve found some magical answer to life being hard.

Big Kissinger energy

o7___o7, 18 days ago

My Papaw has ten brothers and sisters and dropped out of the sixth grade to become an entrepreneur, but I don’t see the Guardian beating a path to his door.

o7___o7, 1 month ago

nobody is obliged to construct a less stupid version of the stupid claim, though

if he meant a less stupid version, he could easily have said that

Extremely quotable and vastly applicable.

This post may be the epitaph of our civilization.

o7___o7, 1 month ago

People without an imagination trying to imagine what a prosthetic imagination would look like

o7___o7, 1 month ago

Fractal sealions

o7___o7, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

CW: embarrassing srs take:

The way LLM boosters talk about GPTs reminds me of how one of my kids tried to convince himself that his stuffies are really alive.

The same desire to believe in adults is so unsettling to me. They’re desperately trying to fill a hole in their life where family, friends, culture, or religion should be. My first instinct would be compassion if it weren’t for all of the economic dislocation and fascism.

o7___o7, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

What if the Technocracy Movement fucked NASCAR

What if Nazis but the uniforms are Gildan instead of Hugo Boss

What if fascists were stopped with atomic wedgies instead of atomic bombs

o7___o7, 1 month ago

I love Ed, and he’s going to bring the receipts and make Google look like idiots. The downside is that Ed’s going to play it straight.

What do I want to see? I want to see Google get in public fight with Robert Evans. That would be hilarous.

o7___o7, 1 month ago

https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/64a51329-f0e4-44a6-a6b1-c0afe37d8657.jpeg

o7___o7, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

SCP-8008: TIME PERVERT

scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8008

This SCP Wiki entry riffs on our favorite fan fiction extruder cum doomsayer. It is the deepest, weirdest cut, it relies on having some familiarity with SCP Wiki lore, and it is also very NSFW.

I’m sorry.

o7___o7, 2 months ago

It’s very similar to the feeling you get when you read a very middle-quality novel, innit?

o7___o7, 2 months ago

LLMs are 21st century Ouija boards