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Tyler Cowen saying some really weird shit about an AI 'actress'.

(For people who might wonder why he is relevant. See his 'see also' section on wikipedia)

E: And you might wonder, rightfully imho, that this cannot be real, that this must be an edit. https://archive.is/vPr1B I have bad news.

Friend: "I have a problem"

Me, with a stack of google printouts: "My time to shine!".

E: ow god, I thought the examples were multiple and the friend one was just a random one. No, it was the first example. 'I gave my friend a printout, which saved me time'. Also, as I assume the friend still is unhoused, and they didn't actually use the printout yet, he doesn't know if this actually helped. Atwood isn't a 'helping the unhoused' expert. He just assumed it was a good source. The story ends when he hands over the paper.

Also very funny that he is also going 'you just need to know how to ask questions the right way, which I learned by building stackoverflow'. Yeah euh, that is not a path a lot of people can follow up in.

There have been a lot of cases in history of smart people being bested by the dumbest people around who just had more guns/a gun/copious amounts of meth/a stupid idea but they got lucky once, etc.

I mean, if they are so smart, why are they stuck in a locker?

Secretly been eyeing your prompt. Are you ready to get spontaneous? Just say so.

(Somebody linked 2 chatgpts (or groks, I don't recall which anus like logo it was) speaking to each other and they kept repeating variants of the lasts bits).

E: bingo this one: https://www.tiktok.com/@aarongoldyboy/video/7555260691947588895

One the one hand that ani thing has the most cringe tone for a chatbot. "Secretly been eyeing your [blank]..." (Damn grok sounds formulaic) but otoh they are debating a bot. You can only do that the first few months you are online, after that you should know better.

You cannot simultaneously claim to care about the "declining birth rate" while also supporting AI "companions"

Actually eugenicists can, quite easy actually. (Repeating the word 'degenerate' and not getting this is quite something).

This is transhumanist

No.

E: eurgh, had forgotten the whole bsky waffle thing. Wasn't making a reference to that, sorry if it came off as insensitive. Got rid of the comment anyway.

(I had totally forgotten this post, and also didn't expect the CEO to double/triple down, and now make mentioning waffles into a anti-trans dogwhistle).

The dictionary doesnt tell me how wise and smart my misinterpretation of a basic idea is and then tells me im right, weird AI bro.

Lol maintaining a wiki is so much work always much respect for people who actually try to keep one up to date and filled with good info. Of course the fraud thinks he knows better without having ran one.

He would have a heart attack if he had to write a complex mediawiki script.

A small taste:

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Article posted here just for the line: "AI-made material is a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind"

Funny how when there is something novel it always a) already existed in the training data or b) doesn't actually seem to work.

Amazing how they all went from oh us poor nerds vs the jocks to bending the knee and licking the boots of the strongmen. see also YT bribing Trump.

Or, this is how capitalism has always worked. See Enron for example. And we all just got so enthralled by the number (praised be its rise) that we took the guardrails off. The rising tidal wave which will flood all the land, raises all boats after all.

The goal of capitalism is not to produce goods, it is to create value for the owners of the capital. See also why techbros are turning on EA and EA (which EA is which, is left as an exercise to the reader).