dgerard

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

I should not be surprised that the author of HPRick and Morty also wrote SCP-8008.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nikolai Durov has two Ph.Ds in maths, and is convinced he is the smartest man in the world, and Telegram's cryptography follows directly

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

a lot of companies are chasing the humanoid form because they’ll be able to immediately adapt to existing infrastructure (to replace human workers).

that's the story, but this doesn't work, like, at all, with just a moment's thought.

if humanoid was a good shape we'd have humanoid robots already.

the reason is they're selling sci fi dreams of robot servants even though these dreams are lies.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

what the

no that isn't a request to elaborate

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

That's Yudkowsky and Piper's "glowfic"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago

they're a Thiel op

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

UPDATE: Seraphinne Vallora have admitted the Vogue ad image was a photo from an ordinary modeling shoot with a bit of AI afterwards. They phrased it as bragging about their hard work, of course. https://www.instagram.com/p/DMm4KkfoYCj/

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

because i know what you like

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

Trump apologetics doesn't really make the bar here. Hopefully you will find a sub that is more accepting of whatever your condition is.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Microsoft Edge

 

video version - yes i did one for this too

 

Video version

Podcast version if you hate pictures

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