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this might be missed by folks because previous stubstack, definitely re-up it in the new one!
Hey, good news for a change: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/the-workers-at-bethesda-game-studios-have-fully-unionized-163024914.html
Insert the Sickos meme
https://xcancel.com/creatine_cycle/status/1814711919171014997#m
It is happening again.
I'm so certain that ASI is so soon that I'm going to go hiking in the woods in the dead of night with no supplies and not tell anyone where I am.
Since I went looking for links, I thought I'd include them for others wondering.
Thiel invests in Polymarket: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/polymarket-raises-70m-thiel-founders-140000178.html
Nate Silver joins Polymarket as advisor: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nate-silver-joins-polymarket-ahead-of-2024-election-as-trading-volume-tops-400m-302198424.html
@Soyweiser @dgerard WOW!!! and Silver wants #Biden to drop out. No collusion there???? Thanks for providing context.
@Soyweiser @dgerard it does track with silver going off the deep end in 2016
He started getting high off his own supply and thinking he could do climate science better than climate scientists back in 2012.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nate-silver-climate-change_b_1909482
@blakestacey I remember hit talking about Stacy Abrams election for governor and saying tah maybe all the illegal shit led to her loosing but there isn't good research and so it doesn't matter. When that happened my thoughts about him changed a great deal
a hackernews excitedly states that a new LLM version can in fact determine that 9.11 is smaller than 9.9, only to be informed in the comments that the model actually doesn't do that at all. But hey, it's correct if it's version numbers!
Mumsnet becomes the latest company to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement.
Why AI bros are scraping TERF Island's Finest I'm not sure, but it'll be fun to watch the two of them slapfight each other.
Make it a sonnenrad
the NATO symbol represents bombing the Chinese data centres
the replies I can see in the archive are already a fucking disaster
roko spewed the most nonsensical, fash-coded disapproval you could imagine:
the map should reflect the territory, not the feelings
that’s right roko, uh, maps don’t care about your feelings?
oh god I clicked through to the rest of roko’s comments in that thread and it’s even worse, cw transphobia for anyone who peeks their head in
Roko tries to signal loyalty to both Rationalism and the Far right and creates a dumb sentence.
I don't want to hear that I'm irrational from Roko of all people haha.
Dude sure spends a lot of energy on trans people and immigrants and wokeness for someone who thinks that climate change doesn't matter because "by 2100 we will probably have disassembled Earth long with the rest of the solar system, and climate change will seem very quaint."
Also is his flirting with white supremacy new, or has he always been that fascist of a weirdo?
Also is his flirting with white supremacy new, or has he always been that fascist of a weirdo?
he’s always come off as deeply fascist to me, though it’s possible he’s gone even more mask-off with the white supremacy. I feel that roko’s personal style of saying the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard and claiming it’s brilliant has influenced the e/acc crowd a lot too, so maybe there’s some cross-pollination of ideas there.
“by 2100 we will probably have disassembled Earth long with the rest of the solar system, and climate change will seem very quaint.”
yes, roko, it’s pretty fucking obvious that climate change will seem quaint by 2100
if it doesn’t fucking kill us way before then. that’s what makes it a fucking threat, roko, did your big ol mediocre brain miss that?
i've been told he was like this at uni too, deeply racist and misogynist
"[A]cademic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge, had sold access to its authors’ research as part of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnership with Microsoft—a deal worth almost £8m ($10m) in its first year."