feed it into their spicy autocomplete engines which then flood the internet with AI sludge

I'm getting a mental image of a wood chipper: a word chipper.

Can't wait to find out that the Perseid meteor shower, which has inspired humanity for centuries, is actually just Von Neumann probes from a long-dead civilization that spam their equivalent of tea.xyz pull requests on any planet that has advanced to hosting source forges.

as, indeed, has started to happen https://xcancel.com/thezahima/status/1811495742894408065

now at 79 upvotes on awful.systems, but only eleven upvotes are visible from lemm.ee.

Fedi is weird!

From the comments: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/34pz6ni3muwPnenLS/why-so-many-racists-at-manifest?commentId=8KrQz3wcdHiDL2YfH

None of the commenters seem to think keeping a safe work environment is part of work.

EA overdue to all be wiped out from a disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

I can't say for sure that he thinks of genetics as bloodlines, and is concerned about its purity, but I can have my suspicions.

Useful context: this is a followup to this post:

The thing about being active in the hacker house scene is you are accidentally signing up for a career as a shadow politician in the Silicon Valley startup scene. This process is insidious because you’re initially just signing up for a place to live and a nice community. But given the financial and social entanglement of startup networks, you are effectively signing yourself up for a job that is way more than meets the eye, and can be horribly distracting if you are not prepared for it. If you play your cards well, you can have an absurd amount of influence in fundraising and being privy to insider industry information. If you play your cards poorly, you will be blacklisted from the Valley. There is no safety net here. If I had known what I was getting myself into in my early twenties, I wouldn’t have signed up for it. But at the time, I had no idea. I just wanted to meet other AI researchers.

I’ve mind-merged with many of the top and rising players in the Valley. I’ve met some of the most interesting and brilliant people in the world who were playing at levels leagues beyond me. I leveled up my conception of what is possible.

But the dark side is dark. The hacker house scene disproportionately benefits men compared to women. Think of frat houses without Title IX or HR departments. Your peer group is your HR department. I cannot say that everyone I have met has been good or kind.

Socially, you are in the wild west. When I joined a more structured accelerator later, I was shocked by the amount of order and structure there was in comparison.

Very grim that she feels the need to couch her damning report with "some, I assume, are good people" for a paragraph. I guess that's one of her survival strategies.

Unfortunately, effort does not guarantee quality, and it's worth contemplating the possibility that they violated everyone's rights just to make something irredeemably crappy.

Del declined to comment about whether the Carlin-sounding voice was generated by A.I.

I bet they used an AI trained on Carlin's work to create this special, but ~~Lugosi v. Universal Pictures, IMO (IANAL) means Carlin's family will likely lose a suit based on imitating his likeness.~~ Good thing I'm not a lawyer because apparently there's several laws now, starting with the "California Celebrities Rights Act" meaning likeness rights are inherited and good for 70 years.

Then you throw out all the hard parts of the question like: Then you ignore all of history

Seems to me that this is all swimming in the same water as End of History and anti-politics: defining humans and humanity out of the problem space, and insisting that in order to be taken seriously you must be focused only on productivity, good governance, and technological progress, the only problems.