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Cake day: September 7th, 2023

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  • Yeah, I intentionally only mentioned the start of the article and the Swartz bit because I didn’t want to lead with what I thought of it all, and was curious what others thought. (And I had not finished it yet because it is a bit long).

    I was struck with the notion how many of them are all true AGI believers (which as you said the author took at face value) or rich greedy assholes (like you said), and how we, the people of the sneer, are right that you simply can’t work with these people. Like I feel more validated in the idea that EA is not the right way.

    Another detail I noticed, nobody mentioned deepseek, again.









  • Not just anime but also science fiction. See also all the people who love ‘hard’ science fiction (science fiction more based on real world physics), which often isn’t that hard at all but just has a few real physics element, see the expanse for a good example of non-hard sf that feels hard (im finally reading the book series so be warned I might expanse post a bit).

    content warning discussion about sexual abuse thrope

    A similar thing happens with people who confuse edgy/grimdark/vile fiction with realistic. (A while back I played a video game which had a reference to women being captured for breeding and men for other sexual abuse (which made no sense in the setting, as these slaver faction already were resource starved, and poisoned so they died quickly, so no way they could raise kids into maturity in that environment (also iirc the slaver faction was less than 20 years old)). Which some players described as very realistic (people do the same about 40k, almost like it says something about their ideas of how the world works not the setting). I was just rolling my eyes and didnt comment. Apart from that it seemed ok. Crying suns is the name of the game for the people who want to avoid it for this reason (it wasnt a big plot point).

    Sorry for being a bit offtopic and talking about entertainment again.








  • Dont think it is that bad (E: at least it is short, the other ‘jokes’ not so much). The ‘not sneering enough’ icon is missing however. (Guess the joke is that the not sneering is itself sneering).

    Wonder how much them they will really implement.

    However looking at the titles of other recent submissions, I have no idea which ones are meant to be jokes and which are meant to be real posts.

    Great troll opportunity however, just spend the whole week before 1 april, replying to new posts with a variant of ‘not sure this april fools joke lands’

    E: and the site died with a nice 504.