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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

TBH, I ignore her physics takes too. Her background is in the cosmology/quantum gravity corner of the subject. That's a different specialization from the experimental implementation of quantum computers. And when she wandered into quantum foundations, a subject I've put a lot of work into understanding, her thinking came across as in part shallow, in part deliberately contrarian. So, yeah, Google is hyping their work — that's a safe bet — and further progress is going to be harder than the sales talk makes it sound. But on the other hand, it's possible to have "physicist disease" about other subfields of physics than one's own.

(I have not had the time and energy to read the underlying paper in detail myself yet.)

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

tomatopaste43:

If this isn't a troll, then it's someone in dire need of psychological help.

redhatfilm:

leaning toward the latter.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Hopefully it elaborates on whatever the fuck this is:

Modern Japanese urban environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal.

The solution to falling birthdates isn’t immigration. It’s cultural.

Encourage natural human interaction, sex, physical fitness and spirituality:

  • ban Tenga fleshlights and “Japan Real Hole” custom pornstar pocket pussies being sold in Don Quixote grocery stores
  • replace conveyor belt sushi and restaurant vending machine ordering, with actual human interaction with a waiter
  • replace 24/7 eSports cafes where young males earn false fitness signals via Tekken fighting and Overwatch shooting games, with athletics in school
  • heavily stigmatize maid cafes where lonely salarymen pay young girls to dress as anime characters and perform anime dances for them
  • revitalize traditional Japanese culture (Shintoism, Okinawan karate, onsen, etc)

If we couldn't react with "wake up babe, new copypasta just dropped" or "tag yourself, I'm the false fitness signal in the maid café", we couldn't react to a lot of life.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

We should expect more of this to come. The ascendant right wing is pushing policies that only deliver for people who are already stinking rich. Even if 99% of those who vote that way go along with the propaganda line in the face of their own disappointment, that's still a lot of unhappy people, who are not known for intellectual consistency or calm self-reflection, in a country overflowing with guns. All it takes is one ammosexual who decides that his local Congressman has been co-opted by the (((globalists))), you know?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

From the replies:

I see the interest in AI, Peter Thiel, and the far future, but it's a lot more rationality adjacent than EA.

"It's a lot more country than western"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mal Reynolds yeah um hmm wait err hmm.gif

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago

Sounds kind of like a boozy, fizzy Orange Julius...so, yeah, it could work.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

First reaction: "Wait, that was in Nature?"

Second reaction: "Oh, Nature Scientific Reports. The 'we have Nature at home' of science journals."

Among many insights, Davis (politely) points out that one of the AI-generated Chaucer poems is just "the opening of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales."

Whan that Aprille with the fuck?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Throwback Thursday: Atlas Shrugged: The Cobra Commander Dialogues

(Based on blog posts now available here.)

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

oof

The existence of a Wikipedia page for dinosaur erotica must prove that back in the days when humans co-existed with stegosaurs, the ones who fucked them lived better.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

Erin go Bleagh.

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