istewart

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[–] istewart@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago

look at me, the thinking man, i update myself just like a computer beep boop beep boop

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have a degree of appreciation for Chapman because he was willing to more-or-less call out Yuddite rationalism as a failure and start to gently guide people away from it. But I also came to the conclusion that his whole project has never fully escaped the self-aggrandizement/self-importance inherent to the rats. That ultimately leads to the performative humility and "radical acceptance" that make so many attempts at appropriating non-Western religions to US culture ring completely hollow.

Broadly, the whole TPOT/post-rationality/meta-rationality thing still stinks like a bunch of people who thought advanced degrees and/or advanced technical skills would earn them a lot more compensation and social status than they actually ended up with, and are still dead-set on getting all that by hook or by crook.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

better, or equivalent to, a mass defecation event?

[–] istewart@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I'm sorry, we finally, officially need to cancel fantasy TTRPGs. If it's not the implicit racialization of everything, it's the use of the stat systems as a framework for literally masturbatory eugenics fetishization.

You all can keep a stripped-down version of Starfinder as a treat. But if I see any more of this, we're going all the way back to Star Wars d6 and that's final.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

I'll buy that for a fully-depreciated H100 GPU

[–] istewart@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

tl,dr; Thiel now sees the Christofascists as a more durable grifting base than the EAs, and is looking to change lanes while the temporary coalitions of maximalist Trumpism offer him the opportunity.

I repeat my suspicion that Thiel is not any more sober than Musk, he's just getting sloppier about keeping it out of the public eye.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

My velocity has increased 10x and I'm shipping features like a cracked ninja now, which is great because my B2B SaaS is still in stealth mode.

Yeah it's satire, but effective satire means you can never really tell...

[–] istewart@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

they seem to have trained on nearly everything you've ever heard of. especially a lot of Perl

This is profoundly hilarious to me for some reason. AppleScript, of all things, also seems suspiciously high on that graph. As does Pascal running neck and neck with Swift.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Open Anus Impossibly? My friend, this is nothing new, that site has been around for at least 25 years

[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is just haplessly comical. The AI-generated sinister hijab lady, the attempts at algorithm-compliant YouTube face, the fact that they're doing this instead of raising their kids (which may be beneficial for the kids in the long run...) Who do they imagine they're convincing?

[–] istewart@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A møøse ønce bit my spare 4th child, the disappøinting øne with a løw scøre øn Raven's Prøgressive Matrices...

[–] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

Australian posters: is this an appropriate circumstance to tell these people to "get a dog up ya"

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