the most morally rigid autists will have some opinion like "I don't EVER drive, use AI, eat meat etc. If I saw a billionaire I'd murder him right there" but be in their 30s working at lockheed martin irl and abandon friendships without explanation because their mom judged them one Wednesday
if your moral convictions r flexible when u r triggered and shamed but over the top rigid and performative when not then you don't have strong moral convictions you have a personality disorder
get in therapy grow up learn ethics 101. we live in the bad place your friends r just trying 2 survive
Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”
Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”
interesting how the guys saying they already have an army of PHDs in a data center and human intelligence is obsolete have to hire 8,000 more humans to out compete the other company also claiming they have an army of PHDs in a data center www.ft.com/content/7ffe...
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Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
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The way billionaires always convince themselves that a serious personal flaw they clearly need therapy for is actually the reason they are great and rich is kinda impressive
Millennials and Gen z: we r 2 poor 2 afford any life milestones like buying houses or having kids
News: they r not doing _ because _insert anything but money_
The amount of mental gymnastics media goes 2 blame any 1 but oligarchs 4 r current problems would be hilarious if it wasn't so dystopian
what are humans if not LLMs trained by the Lord
You know u have been chronically burned out when feeling relaxed feels like an altered state of consciousness
my toxic trait is I call the sick to my stomach stressed feeling I get masking around certain people "bpdar"
some people have vibes that they will read everything u say as negative but say nothing and then months later threaten to kill themselves over the way they have perceived u saying things
tech guys are speed running all potential sci-fi horrors. they really did just take the opposite lessons from all the books we all read.
like who even thinks "hey lets build the brain in the vat thing" after hearing about boltzmann brains all your life
maybe we should have kept bullying nerds
The small risk that "biocomputers" could be sentient makes building them deeply immoral. The fact we are doing it without first having figured out consciousness is kinda horrific 2 me
I'm pretty confident they aren't sentient but like the small chance they r makes me horrified by their existence
Billionaires don't want billions bc they want a luxurious, happy life. That's not what billions buys. Exquisite luxury for life is what $100M buys.
Billions buy something very different: Control over other people.
The wealth tax is an issue of fundamental freedom and functional democracy.
there has gotta be a name for this. it repeats in so much stuff.
the constant warnings of danger can serve to just desensitize us and normalize it
climate change is another example. all we talked about in the 90s-2000s and now everyone is like guess we all die whatever
I feel like we beat torment nexus discussions to death so much in the past decades that now we are starting to get actual torment nexuses everyone has tuned out
reminds me of how nuclear dangers were all academics talked about until it was an actual thing and then people were like whatever
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
Every ten minutes or so I just mutter to myself that everything is so fucking stupid right now.
I knew someone would put LLMs in autonomous weapons but the fact our military is gonna do it is bonkers
They are gonna cause skynet but instead of having goals and going rogue it is gonna be a language model glitching from bad prompts
This dystopia is so fucking dumb
Vincent Van Gogh - To Theo van Gogh. Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, on or about Sunday, 3 or Monday, 4 June 1888.
You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays
lots of lefties have this fucking idealized view of other leftist countries because they think the poor people there support e.g indigenous people or queers because they r kinder or more loving or some shit when really what happened is the leftist movements there won the progranda battle
I genuinely believe that even a muslim trans woman could be elected to the presidency if she offered a clearer narrative 4 why poor people r suffering than MAGA
poor people are not conservatives they r poor and conservatives were the only group that offered them narratives for why their life sucks
neoliberals try to convince u that poor people give a shit about anything but their constant distress because they don't want you to know how easy it is to get them to vote for anything and anyone that offers a path out of constant suffering
Because they saw it happen in other countries
Policies that supposedly r cared about in red states and make progressives unelectable r only cared about because progranda convinced them that their suffering is being caused by whatever it is
e.g lots of people really think trans people r hurting them financially because of gender affirming care