Hasan Piker is a good-looking wealthy dumb guy who likes talking to people and doesn't really know or understand the details of anything he talks about, he's like the platonic ideal of a Congressman.

Would surely depend on things like the throughput and economic accessibility of the technology. From the perspective of, say, certain societies of pre-modern male aristocrats, this probably would not be too dramatically different from how they structured child-rearing anyway.

That can't be, I've been assured by the world's foremost two-time Herbert Hoover voter that the supersonic jet guys can teach me "how to turn tech's competence into tangible results in the physical world"

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Also very annoying and pretentious to use as the point of comparison 'Sejong City', a reference that would be understood by <1% of 'likely voters'. He sounds like he just got back from his semester abroad.

In context the quote is obviously meant as a judgement of his personal character, not OpenAI's current financial situation.

Please post a $25 ActBlue contribution to the Mary Peltola campaign or shut the fuck up, thanks.

just totally abandoning the responsibility and obligation to engage seriously with politics in favor of meaningless snark. an idiot in every sense.

unbelievably embarrassing thing to post, in public, under your own name, as an ostensibly informed and fully grown adult. might as well walk around with a 'i am a useless dipshit' face tattoo

I don't think I'd interpret a statement that essentially says "we are implementing this feature, but we are also listening and learning" as 'backtracking'.

Or maybe it's simply silly to grant a tiny minority of the platform's most uninformed and zealously disputatious users veto power over its development.

I don't know that I'd consider ~1% of the active user base to be representative of the platform's 'core users' simply because they are the most reflexively aggressive.

I want them. I'd imagine many users like myself who are interested in similar features are not very visible in threads like these because of how annoying the shrill, unthinking hostility of the Butlerian Jihadist crowd is.

Trying to buy a cool vintage mouse pad for a gift, and it's difficult to find anything with a logo that isn't from a well-known defense contractor or Silicon Valley company. Unfortunately the Soviet computer industry doesn't seem to have produced a lot of branded merch.

Even as we speak, IRGC sleeper cells are fanning out across Raya, looking for Kash & Hegseth's burner profiles

Yeah but we're talking about UChicago undergrads here, whatever the acceptable legal standard is you gotta tack on at least 5 years

not who i'd have picked to be the first guy to self-identify as an NPC

one could say, an NPC

I once saw a guy give himself a shave on the CTA's Red Line. And not with an electric razor either, I'm talking mirror, five blades, flicking cream onto the seats. Immediately afterwards he started smoking a dart.

One year ago, would you have said that the US military intentionally double-taps civilian boats and releases sizzle reels of the strikes?

and they say LLMs can't make art

Could you include the source article for the screenshot?

one through-line is that there was some disparagement of fetterman as being too 'reddit', but platner would be the most apex redditor to ever walk the halls of government

If I were Elon Musk, or any of his investors, or any of the professional executives employed by him, I think the existential threat I would be most concerned about is not unaligned AI but rather a button in the Pentagon that can instantly kill any defense contractor.

Aside from some hand-wringing about algorithmic rabbitholes. YouTube escaped scrutiny even at the zenith of the disinfo / tech safety era. Congress never even hauled in Wojcicki to testify. My only hypothesis is that no one on staff had the patience to sit through full length videos for clips.

It'd be a nice silver lining if the bad pay, poor working conditions and faint prestige of alt-journalism meant it attracted only the truest of heart, but in practice it seems to attract a greater than average share of incompetent narcissists who run the gamut from grandiose to messianically deluded

Reading the Sam Kriss Harper's piece and I think one thing that should be asked of anyone attempting to analyze the current socio-technical moment is that they be discerning enough not to accept at face value the obvious lies of a child

makes it even more embarrassing to write a profile premised on scoring points in a beef between social media cliques

OpenAI has 571 open job listings. Apparently they are anticipating this imminent fast takeoff will still require them to hire additional software engineers, marketers, technical program managers, and compensation/benefits analysts.

There are currently 3435 jobs listed on the Microsoft careers page, and while I didn't check them all, I have a hunch that most of them involve looking at screens. This seems like a lot for a company that's planning to automate all white collar work in the next 12 to 18 months.