[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 3 months ago

Etymology is not destiny. Otherwise, naughty children would be full of nothing, and (Borges' example) sarcophagi would be the opposite of vegetarians. So, Moldy's argument would be bad even if it were founded on linguistic facts, which it isn't.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 23 points 3 months ago

(At the brainstorming session for terrible software names)

"PedoAI!"

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 6 months ago

The lead-in to that is even "better":

This seems particularly important to consider given the upcoming conservative administration, as I think we are in a much better position to help with this conservative administration than the vast majority of groups associated with AI alignment stuff. We've never associated ourselves very much with either party, have consistently been against various woke-ish forms of mob justice for many years, and have clearly been read a non-trivial amount by Elon Musk (and probably also some by JD Vance).

"The reason for optimism is that we can cozy up to fascists!"

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 7 months ago

I think that in this particular instance, it's OK to kinkshame

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 1 year ago

I regret to inform you that Trace is hate-reading awful.systems too & has posted this comment on their Twitter.

Their writing is so boring I can't even summon up the enthusiasm to make a "senpai has noticed us" joke.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 22 points 1 year ago

"Computers will be really good at chess" was already a trope in 1960s science fiction. HAL 9000 is canonically so good that he was instructed to throw the game half the time so that his human opponents don't get bored. The Enterprise computer is so good that Spock being able to beat it — Spock — is a major plot point.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 23 points 1 year ago

My "I have no specific views on eugenics" T-shirt has prompted many questions already answered by my T-shirt

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 22 points 1 year ago

"The image of the penis is translated into a depth measurement...."

That's numberwang!

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 1 year ago

From a downvoted comment:

Because players aren't sure where a story is going and can't edit previous sections, the stories tend to be plagued by pacing problems- scenes that could be a paragraph are dragged out over pages, important plot beats are glossed over, and so on. It's also very rare that players are able to pull off the kind of coordination necessary for satisfying narrative buildup and payoff, and the focus on player character interaction tends to leave a lot of necessary story scaffolding like scene setting and NPC interaction badly lacking.

If your goal in writing this was in part to promote or socially explore these utopian ideas rather than just to enjoy a forum game, it may be worth considering ways to mitigate these issues- to modify the Glowfic formula to better accommodate an audience.

Yud's response:

We are both experienced authors not in need of this advice at this level.

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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 2 years ago

If I were to transition today and didn't pass as well as Jessica, and everyone felt obligated to call me a woman, they would be wireheading me: making me think my transition was successful, even though it wasn't.

This is the same fuckin' diseased mentality that gets cis women harassed in changing rooms for having jawlines that are slightly too heavy.

The math is also weird and unclear in that way which feels like a person reaching for grandiose Theories Of It All without any experience solving more mundane problems first.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 2 years ago

The case for the importance of IQ for numerous real-world outcomes was made in the controversial book The Bell Curve (1994) by psychologist Richard Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray. They cogently argued

No, they didn't.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 2 years ago

I just can't get over the "struggling with a flour sifter" bit. Like ... what's there to struggle with? What accessory would help a person locked in combat with a flour sifter? Another flour sifter, to intimidate the first with the knowledge that it can be replaced?

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