So, you want to replace the guys with beertap backpacks with robots? Because this already exists without robots.

The power of these people us that they project a field in which normal reality doesn’t seem to hold and they can do things that seem to distort reality. Like a clown car. The Great Clown theory of history.

That is a lot of mental hoops to jump through to keep holding on to the idea IQ is useful. High IQ is a force multiplier for being dumb. The horseshoe theory of IQ.

Not something you should admit on the internet, but I actually have not watched that much of the simpsons, it just wasn’t that much on our tvs. Bundy was however.

On the subject of AI agents, I saw a baffling commercial (or well half saw it several times) where they where trying to sell I think AI powered phones where they had the revolutionary AI agent idea of randomly feeling like you should meet up with friends, then just go to your friends and tell your phone that it should reschedule everything they had planned for a day later. Which baffled me in various ways, as mentioning this to your phone doesn’t do anything, you can’t reschedule without input from other people. Sure I might not want to go to my doc appointment today, but I can’t just tell my phone ‘hey tell my doc I will do it tomorrow not today’. And this is ignoring the fact that with AI reliability you need to actually check they did it correctly. It might have forgotten the order of the days, I mean it is a technology that already has failed on the most basic task. Just a very strange commercial, disconnected from how modern agendas and time works.

Not really a sneer, nor that related to techbro stuff directly, but I noticed that the profile of Chris Kluwe (who got himself arrested protesting against MAGA) has both warcraft in his profile name and prob paints miniatures looking at his avatar. Another stab in the nerd vs jock theory.

Some manager is going to see the metrics on that article vaguely think about the word viral and take the absolute wrong conclusions.

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Im reading AI as AL, so meet your new research assistant

That thread is quite something, going from “yud is extraordinarily thorough (much more thorough than i could possibly be) in examining the ground directly below a streetlamp, in his search for his keys”, that ‘he believes it like he believes in China’ to ‘honestly, i should be reading him. we have starkly different spiritual premises- and i smugly presume my spiritual premises are informed by better epistemology’

Yeah same, think a grenade toss killed me

An extreme Boss Baby tweet.

Presuming that Republicans ever asked “was it a fair election?!” in good faith, like a true jabroni.

Imagine saying this after the birther movement remained when the birth certificate was shown. “Just admit you didnt fuck pigs, and this pigfucking will be gone”.

Yeah, I have reread the book last year. (Due to all the hot takes of people about the book in regards with Helldivers) and the movie is a lot better propaganda than the book (The middle, where they try to justify their world, drags on and on and is filled with strawmen and really weird moments. Esp the part where the main character, who isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, is told that he is smart enough to join the officers. You must be this short to enter)).

Prff, like you would be part of the 20% that survives basic training. I know I wouldn’t.

(So many people miss this little detail, or the detail that it is cheaper to send a human with a gun down to a planet to arm the nukes (sorry Hellbombs) than to put a remote detonator on the nukes, I assume you were not one of those people btw, it is just me gushing positively about the satire in the game (it is a good game) and sort of despairing about media literacy/attention spans).

Certainly, for a lot of them it is even worse. See how the neo-nazis love American History X. (How do we stop John Connor from becoming a nazi, seems oddly relevant).

oh my God

Welcome to the horrible realization of the truth. All things the right understands comes from entertainment media. That is also why satire doesn’t work, you need to have a deeper understanding of the world to understand the themes, else starship troopers is just about some hot people shooting bugs.

Amazon Prime pulling some AI bullshit with, considering the bank robbery in the movie was to pay for surgery for a trans woman, a hint of transphobia (or more likely, not a hint, just the full reason).

That’s basically the entire problem in a nutshell.

I think a lot of these people are cunning, aka good at somewhat sociopathic short term plans and thinking, and they confuse this ability (and they survivor biassed success) for being good at actual planning (or just thinking that planning is worthless, after all move fast and break things (and never think about what you just said)). You don’t have to actually have good plans if people think you have charisma/a magical money making ability (which needs more and more rigging of the casino to get money on the lot of risky bets to hope one big win pays for it all machine).

Doesn’t help that some of them seem to either be on a lot of drugs, or have undiagnosed adhd. Unrelated, Musk wants to go into Fort Knox all of a sudden, because he saw a post on twitter which has convinced him ‘they’ stole the gold (my point here is that there is no way he was thinking about Knox at all before he randomly came across the tweet, the plan is crayons).

Necromancers are just genetically better, they quickly keep up in conversations and they seem to sparkle(*), I suggest we make them the elites.

*: please ignore my detractors who keep pointing out this could also be because they snort bone dust. They are just a snarlbunch, and we have noticed the skulls already.