[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago

MFs looked at SBF and thought, yeah, more of that thanks.

Who do we have to bribe to just have a pitfall trap in place of whatever it is they’re trying to build?

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago

double check that your rubbers didn’t get punctured.

Extra wrinkly*, for your partner’s pleasure

*the brain, that is

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago
[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 11 months ago

His LinkedIn has no background in tech beyond serving on the board of google health. He’s essentially just some guy!

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 11 months ago

jurisdictional polymath

To borrow a term from the podcast "Scam Goddess", a "serial entrepreneur", which in turn is just a scam artist.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

dawg if I have to grok rat doublespeak I might just double plus unalive

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual,

“And that’s why I’m announcing project Kenjaku-Orochimaru, where I find twinks to transplant my brain into”

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

I kind of wish there was a space in awful.systems to dunk on malcolm gladwell et al but it’s probably a little too far removed from stem fuckery.

If you haven’t listened to the “outliers” episode of the “if books could kill” podcast, i recommend it!

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

(Numbers added by me for easier back references)

Examples of epilogenics

1) Selecting an embryo for lower disease risk, higher intelligence, or some other trait good for both the individual and society
2) Gene editing for the purposes listed above
3) Choosing an attractive spouse

Examples of things that are not epilogenics

4) State-sponsored sterilization of people deemed “unfit”
5) Rules against marriage of family members such a siblings and cousins
6) Things people think of as eugenics even though they are often bad for genes (i.e. genocide)
  • 1 with the qualification of “good for… society” is just 4) with extra steps. 2) is just 1).
  • For 3), unless everyone you are dating never wears makeup/grooms themselves in any way, you probably aren’t looking at much genetic influence. You are probably instead just selecting for socioeconomic bracket, which is totally not what any of this is about, right?
  • For 5), is the implication is that the OP thinks anti-incest laws are eugenics and therefore bad and therefore should be abolished???
  • 6 Aella definitely googled “things that are bad for genes” with voice to text, got back “regular washing” and took that to heart

Other:

  • I didn’t know the “eu” in “eugenics” came from greek.
  • Now I’m thinking about that whole “eudaimonia” thing from a while back. Every time it pops up in my head I think “Eudaimon now dog!” I wonder how YTMND is doing these days.
[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

Damn, I’m very much in the camp of needing to taste the dish first, at least. Guess we gotta fight

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

Are there OpenAI employees who aren't already in a TREACLESian cult? That's the only way I'd believe them thinking that any cult rituals that their "spiritual leader" performs are strange.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

ITT:

All the more so if it can create a high-quality Harry Potter VR Universe that expands infinitely with NPCs powered by AI that is infinitely more interesting than the normal world is.

This is the future LWers want.

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