Ahhhh, research into the classics.

a man is standing in front of a chalkboard with mathematical equations written on it . ALT: a man is standing in front of a chalkboard with mathematical equations written on it .

I finally got there, too

What?!? I've been selected to submit a paper to a nursing journal?!? All I have to do is submit my credit card information, social security number, and name of my beloved childhood pet? What a deal!

Who are we to say Sam Atman can't do this? Why, I say, let him do this whenever he wants to!

Yeah. Reminds me of that Jamie Oliver/chicken nugget thing. If people will eat it... My wife spent weeks and a sizeable chunk of money discussing style/easter eggs/hidden meanings into her covers with her designer alone, and it sits next to *obviously* AI-generated slop. Sigh.

"A whole Civilization will die tonight".

Yeah.

Ours. Regardless of what happens.

Yep! What happened was within these guidelines, but I haven't made any specific guidelines of my own to date. I suppose I should have been more proactive about that, so, mea culpa.

Any professors out there willing to discuss AI use guidelines/rules in their classes? I just encountered my first dun-dun-dunnnnnnn, and I hadn't put anything out beforehand, so I'd like to figure out what other folks are doing.

Back in 2015, I lamented that those folks were so unhinged Barack Obama won that they'd happily burn the country down instead of let that be a thing, and that they'd cheer far past the point of no return. And damn, I was right.

I must again angrily lament all the "very serious" Democrats who said I needed to be more "respectful" to the first establishment politician in Virginia who normalized and lent his credibility to allow Trump to make inroads into Virginia back in 2015. "But he's so nice! You shouldn't be so acerbic!"

Surely no modern terrifying parallels to that to be had, right?

Jesus, I hope not.

Literally. In Ugarit, in what would be present day Syria, they talk about trade with Egypt, with Mesopotamia, with what would be Greece and Turkey today, and everything is going fine... until urgent "send help" messages that never got delivered, and civilization didn't recover for A THOUSAND YEARS.

I've been researching the Bronze Age, 1200 BCEish, for something, and the thing that strikes me is, even with the fragmentary records we have now, how things kept getting worse and worse and nobody would/could admit it. Trade, diplomacy, society flowing right until up to *the very last day*.

"Who are the... Krassensteins?"

"Twitter reply guy."

"I don't know what that is."

"... i am so fucking jealous of you and your life."

that aussie joint gave me such grief for writing how trump talks/is manipulated, sheesh

Hats off to the Artemis II crew, who're as far away from all this bullshit as anyone possibly can be

i know, it's vespucci's fault

Still awesome

ruh roh

Who the hell told you that?!

This is incredible, how fast are they gonna end up going?!

I asked AI to finish this evidence-based research project I'm working on in my own style/the way I would do it, and it started playing a 240-hour game of Terra Invicta and browsing Steam for deals on games it'll never play.

This is what terrifies me, honestly, moreso than anything else

Chilling! Everything worked right up to the very last day, and you get LOTR "they are coming..." vibes right as everything went to hell for a thousand years

That Eric Cline one is great and chilling for modern analogies.

I had a similar chat with my students with similar responses, so I'm hopeful as well, although that may be because the alternative is terrifying

Sometimes I really and truly regret not joining the fucking graft train. None of those people seem to have trouble sleeping at night and they have a lot more money than I do.

16 Military Wives YouTube video by The Decemberists - Topic

My daughter listened to this, and went "Wow. How timely."

And I could've sobbed.

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