[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

Battlechess both could choose legal moves and also had cool animations. Battlechess wins again!

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

Having problems fitting enough GPT-3's under that trenchcoat?

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

What could possibly go wrong? Better ask for forgiveness then plant permissions!

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

I thought it came from Babylonian writing that recoded the brains and planted the languages.

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

First half is straight forward dick measurement contest. Let me paraphrase: "My companies has huuuuge revenue! Why haven't yours? Maybe because you are so toxic? Have you thought about that, man with smaaaall revenue."

Notice how it's all revenue, not profit. I think this mindset gives an insight into why so many tech bros if they stumble onto profit, quickly grows out of profit. Profit isn't the score, revenue is. And it's all about hitting that high score so you can feel like a big man.

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

I think it is a combination of:

  1. Governor of major state.
  2. Has nice hair. Real generic politician look.
  3. Polls showing "generic democrat" beating Trump.
  4. Not super old.
  5. Have I mentioned the hair?
[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

The famous story about a man using a drug that sets free the a-hole version of himself?

Oh, that was the drug! It was cocaine all along!

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

So one one hand the CEO's want their minions back into office and on the other they want to replace them with AI's?

Sounds like a conundrum. Or a business opportunity!

Presenting Srvile! The brand new Servility as a Service company, with AI powered robots that will laugh at all boss jokes at the water cooler and say things like "That is such a great idea boss! Since I am an AI I can't realise that you are just regurgitating what you read on Xshitter!" and "We certainly need more AI to solve any problem!"

Call now to order!

(AI may at times be enhanced by remote human control for "quality control". Actual level of servility may vary and is not guaranteed.)

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago

They are both stupid men who repeat stuff they hear to make them look good. So the question is who are this time the "very smart people" that are telling numbnuts like these two that nuclear war is survivable - and by extension winnable? Because if that is the US defense establishment, then yeah we might be cooked.

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

I think the connection isn't with belief in the supernatural, but with the specific belief that there are things around us that look like people but aren't people. I can easily see how the latter at minimum makes one very susceptible for racism.

If people start believing that androids are a real thing (not the OS, human like robots), it's only a matter of time before people will be accused of being androids.

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

Oh yes, very much so.

The British Empire had its colonial administrators curriculum consisting of Latin and history and such. A rich 19th century heir that went into physics or mathematics were considered to be wasting the chance of a political career.

It made their colonial administrators write about their crimes in a nice prose, but it didn't stop the genocides. If anything it made them aware of what paper trails to burn after the fact, in order to obfuscate the crimes when future historians came looking.

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

Georgia is 70-82% absolute certain that god exists.

Which one? Both of them.

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