[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

Pure speculation: my guess is that an “apocaloptimist” is just someone fully bought into all of the rationalist AI delulu. Specifically:

  • AGI is possible
  • AGI will solve all our current problems
  • A future where AGI ends humanity is possible/probable

and they take the extra belief, steeped in the grand tradition of liberal optimism, that we will solve the alignment problem and everything will be ok. Again, just guessing here.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

SFaaS (smelling farts as a service)

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago

ah, I see. Ok. Well, based on all that, you haven’t actually engaged with anything from the post, nor have you said anything non-trivial. Was hoping that you’d at least say something wrong instead.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I just don’t see how all these people come in and get insulted, only not to realise that no one is here to debate them and instead are just finding ways to clown on them. I will never get it. Thanks tho, this was super dull and I regret everything

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

xharts

xcretions

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

Man, if only there were some way to get rid of documents permanently. Like how one might get rid of a body by cremating it. Oh well, time to secretly hide these binders in a coffin.

That being said I’ve heard the alternative theory that trump buried her on mar-a-lago grounds (or wherever the fuck it was) so that he could claim that the grounds were a graveyard, for tax purposes. (I do not believe this)

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

“SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!!

Come to mother baby, let me hold you

In my arms

M'lud I never wanted him to

Commit financial fraud

Why'd he ever have to leave me?

Worm, your honor, let me take him home”

-The Trial, Pink Fried

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

I dare u to tweet this at grimes

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

true, just, something you don’t “necessarrily agree with” is a weird hill to die on

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

104 minute read at LWer speed (uncritical, taking everything at face value, and you already understand their dialect of english)

Actual read time: depends on how often you snark tbh.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not saying anything new here: Longtermism is just more grift for the mill. Just another ism that conveniently dismisses the need to spend money on addressing issues of today so that we can instead pour money into MIRI.

If you wanna talk about long term, except for a small percentage of people, everyone’s conscious contributions to the future (directly or indirectly through donating etc.) will be outweighed completely by the sum total of their plastic usage. The microplastics alone could get into people’s eyes and cause them a quanta of inconvenience!!! Think of the eyes!!! (Also their brain, but who cares about that)

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