someone on here said "years of lead paint" and I can't think of a better caption than that

fbi puts another one in the books. closing the case the way most crime is solved: someone calls and tells them who did it.

remembering how when told the details of his impending execution (memorialized in the opening pages of Foucault's Discipline and Punish) the would-be tyrannicide Robert-François Damiens simply remarked "La journée sera rude," IE, "its gonna be a rough day"

lol, lmao even

We truly live in the stupidest timeline.

what are we going to do, not pay billionaires to put the suicide machine in high schools?

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

Personally I think the issue of forcing children into relationships with bots that have been programmed or demonstrated to act in a manner similar to talking with a child sexual exploitation groomer, cult leader, or QAnon conspiracist—but now in a trusted educational setting—should be enough to stop

For some, the result is psychosis, for some, it's ability to imagine that one could get to having written a novel without having to write a novel, etc. It is a desire for meaning built on the destruction of meaning. It's a nihilism machine, for people who don't even want to face their own nihilism

The Make-a-wish foundation has really come through this time.

I point this out for clarity. I also have a long-term interest in how my crafting of ideas is sometimes confused for the very serious idea being crafted. So to be clear: AI is political attack on labor with few limited cases for social value and an absolute ecological disaster.

We’re watching Town Bloody Hall tonight, and it’s my first time watching this, but Mailer is just an edgelord? Doing the jack off motion at nearly everything he’s saying. Cebellos, Johnston, and Greer are amazing. He’s so tedious. But even the audience seems to know that.

I genuinely think that if GRRM doesn't want to finish ASOIF or doesn't feel like he can deliver something good enough, he should just... stop. Tell everyone that he's done with it and if they want to know how it ends watch the show. Then reboot Wildcards or something.

Yes, this is correct.

I’m howling. This is beautiful. Could not be more pleased with results. People are still going to say it speeds them up. It’s all vibes, all the way down.

The designers of AI systems, in this case, designed them explicitly without these safeguards and mitigations because that was the only way to insinuate them into peoples lives easily.

The combination of CEOs (in this case, the Microsoft AI CEO) warning of the danger of delusional attachment to chatbots but also needing to support that attachment because revenue is a really bad combination. This article correctly calls it out for what it is.

Congrats on the announce, Question. I’m very excited to give this a try. It looks great.

Just bribe me with a good frito pie. Gonna be a bit messy, but definitely filling.

this is just a spreadsheet?? but go off

I would simply not deploy a mine-resistant ambush protected all-terrain vehicle in DC, and yet, here we are.

Looks like it took about 2 weeks to get here. Maybe a few more days. But not particularly long.

It doesn't feel controversial to suggest that the people who create AI films don't want to do so because they're making aq film, they want attendant feeling of creation, attention from it, accolades where possible, etc. Nobody wants the film, in itself, to exist.

only the 7% wealthiest in the county are paying preschool for all! bsky.app/profile/cand...

The more I think about it, the more this article pisses me off. I expect business lobbyists and CEOs to try and do everything they can to repeal taxes and impede passing new ones, but the article largely uncritically parrots the talking points of the tax advisory group.

live by the vibes, die by the vibes

Ah yes, the very normal practice of suing because someone chooses not to use your product. In this case, a gun that randomly fires.

As Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put it: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

I don’t have anything else to say beyond what everyone else has. This is really funny.

Cast the main guy from The Mole Agent as Bond. Hell, just retcon The Mole Agent as a Bond movie. Sergio Chamy ruled.

I'm Old Gregg

If your survey legitimately showed that 87% of game developers used AI agents in their workflows, you would have weighted it to show that. Instead, 87% of your respondents said that, and it's not generalizable to the game development population at large. Huh.

You wanna see a dead body?

I'm afraid in a tired haze last night it kinda sounded like I took this photo, but I didn't. I would never steal valor like that. Whoever was this close to that pack of ruffians deserves major kudos. I was trying to say that we, the public, got a sweet photo out of these dangerous conditions.

I fucking hate this so much, it delays search every time I forget to add "-ai", so annoying that it makes me fucking type more to get basic search I HATE IT (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

No, thank you.

Wild that less than a week in the admonition isn’t just tepid, but nonexistent.

Phenomenal.

In the thick of production on a game, a month late to a new Clipse album, what is this, 2009?

Just make it exist first. You can make it worse with each new pass while getting increasingly frustrated later.

They went with tepid admonition.

Speculative bubbles require a narrative in order to sustain them, because the underlying product won't. The value of that product isn't there, so the story doesn't just supplement the value, it is the value. It's fantasmatic. This article sounds neutral, but its neutrality feeds that narrative.

This is also my response when my kids get mad at me for eating the last of the ice cream.

Jordan Peterson taking temporary leave from public life after undergoing a surgical procedure that removes "nearly a mile" of lustrous blonde hair from his abdominal cavity. "The world bequeathed me a horrible freight," he said through a family spokesperson, who added that Peterson "was crying."

not to go all woke-mob here, but in my opinion any company making money off of sexual/romantic conversations with children should be immediately shutdown and sold for parts and every executive should be in jail

It doesn't seem far fetched that these 'guidelines' were created to justify the models they've already deployed (and by extension, ones they'll train in the future) rather than being created proactively to set ethical and safe policy. I hope it goes without saying, these guidelines are awful.

I'm interested in why the indirection of asking an LLM to summarize a novel has made people feel like it's okay to lie to your friends about having read a book. Even more generously, that you're being honest about not reading it, but you still want to discuss it. Why?