They need the rationalist musical cannons for the upcoming performance of the Rationalist 1812 Overture
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If twitter did get put on the blockchain after Elon bought it, it really would be "X on blockchain"... ba dum tshh
"You’ll also soon be able to test multimodal Meta AI on our Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses."
Now this is interesting. I've been thinking for some time now that traditional computer/smartphone interfaces are on the way out for all but a few niche applications.
Instead, everyone will have their own AI assistant, which you'll interact with naturally the same way as you interact with other people. Need something visual? Just ask for the latest stock graph for MSFT for example.
God, I hope not. Maybe it's just me, but this sounds insanely annoying? It kind of reminds me of the objection I've seen to the metaverse, where it's actually a more inefficient way to do stuff, so it doesn't make sense to imagine it replacing the text-based internet.
Like, I'm not even a fan of smartphones these days, but surely in a world where you could only access information via yelling at your smart glasses, the invention people would be crying out for would be a way to use it silently with your hands, with a screen you could use to easily show it to other people...?
I have never been a huge fan of most of the scp stuff (not that it's bad, it's just not really my thing), but I have reread that series several times at this point, it's so good!
ok but for real... it's not great for finding actual answers to queries, but I find like 800x more interesting results with search.marginalia.nu than any other search engine. It's the only search engine that I find actively fun to just browse around on recreationally.
Seconding this! I'd love some kind of highlight system. It seems like it sort of highlights recent comments very subtly, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with whether I've read them
not least in that calling floating point "arithmetic" is being far too generous to floating point...
I mean, you say this as though Banning Self Driving Cars is some controversial policy action, rather than just literally the current state of the law in most areas. The point is that it's weird to legalize them when they're not ready for prime time just because you figure "the future is coming," because usually we make laws around technology based on how the technology works in the real world, not how we figure it'll probably work in the hypothetical inevitable magic techno-future.
"This technology is coming whether we like it or not, so we're going to make sure that we get it right," Adams said in a statement.
??? Who is "we" here. Is the technology going to be developed by aliens who beam it down to earth? Is a rogue AI developing self-driving cars for the purposes of annoying humanity into submission? Are they springing forth from the head of Zeus?
Seriously, can we go back to the days when tech boosters at least pretended technology was being developed by people to improve other people's lives? Now it seems like they just go "sucks to suck, idiots! this is the future now, get with it, grandpa!" and skateboard away into the sunset leaving everyone else to clean up their mess...
[Time Cube] has a high-IQ mystique about it: if you don't get it, maybe it's because your IQ is too low. The [website] itself is dense with insights, especially the first part. It uses quite a lot of nonstandard terminology (partially because the author is outside the normal academic system), having few citations relative to most academic works. The work is incredibly ambitious, attempting to rebase philosophical metaphysics on a new unified foundation. As a short work, it can't fully deliver on this ambition; it can provide a "seed" of a philosophical research program aimed at understanding the world, but few implications are drawn out.
Yeah, it's such a braindead libertarian position to blame tech platforms blocking slurs on The Government. It's literally not illegal to say slurs! It's just not something most normal people want to be associated with
Look, you gotta forgive this guy for coming up with an insane theory that doesn't make sense. After all, his brain was poisoned by testosterone, so his thinking skills have atrophied. An XXL hat size can only do so much, you know.