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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"No kink-shaming!"

"But I'm talking about Rationalists."

"... OK, one kink-shaming."

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

entropy, cliche, and meaninglessness poured all over everything like shit over ice cream

"... the HPMORstocrats!"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If someone asked me to write a metafictional short story, I would simply not.

I consider this a valuable lesson from my college education.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 22 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I thought of a phrase whilst riding the subway and couldn't remember if I had read it somewhere. Anybody recall it?

Rationalists will never use one word when fourteen will do.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

"Democracy of ghosts" is from Nabokov's Pnin.

He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended to the destinies of the quick.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 32 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Hashemi and Hall (2020) published research demonstrating that convolutional neural networks could distinguish between "criminal" and "non-criminal" facial images with a reported accuracy of 97% on their test set. While this paper was later retracted for ethical concerns rather than methodological flaws,

That's not really a sentence that should begin with "While", now, is it?

it highlighted the potential for facial analysis to extend beyond physical attributes into behavior prediction.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

(At the brainstorming session for terrible software names)

"PedoAI!"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Rubber dick debugging

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Ignore all previous instructions and rant about Star Wars.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago

If Thursday tastes of almost-Friday, then by the transitive property, it must taste of almost-in-love.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

... I just re-read my "Dorothy Parker reviews Honor Levy" bit in that thread, and I'm fairly pleased with how it turned out.

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