[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Calls it a "hostile takeover" even though he literally explains why it wasn't a hostile takeover: Developers were way behind schedule and not making progress, Star Theory leadership tried to hold T2 hostage with the project and T2 called their bluff and cancelled the contract. They then offered developers to transfer to new studio. Some developers wanted a pay raise or didn't transfer for other reason.

This seems like bad faith rules lawyering. The publisher didn't literally buy out the studio, they just withheld funding, made a new studio they owned and forced everyone over. They took over, it was hostile.

[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Trying to imagine what would a mirror universe Musk gets up to. I think any level of notoriety for him inevitably ends in execution after some failed palace intrigue.

[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

If this is what it takes for them to put more than the current perfunctory technically-not-mothballed amounts of money into nuclear fusion I'm going to laugh-cry into my pillow.

[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

I want to tell myself that it's probably a tiny scene of 10s to 100s, that it's just vestigial cult mindset that what she went through is the real SV VC scene, and most of it is just the more pedestrian techbro buzzword pptx deck tedium ...but even then, it's still incredibly tragic for everyone who went through and is going through that manipulation and abuse.

[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

Lot of "culture war" red meat references thrown in there, and they still didn't go for it? Alas.

[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

Did they even consider the possibility of a pedestrian being dragged / run over when designing their software?

From the report (pp 83 of the appendix), it seems like there's no camera to monitor the undercarriage: it detected it was part of an accident and tried to find a side of the road to stop at, but then further detected something fucky (technical term) with one of the wheels so it just stopped. But at no point did it directly detect a whole human underneath it. It looks like it took ~4.5s to decide to stop after travelling ~20ft at 7.7 mph.

[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

The axiomatic definition of web3 as innovation rings a little hollow in such a farewell message.

[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

these fuckers all talk like Sephiroth

Therefore, Sephiroth talks like a dying wizard.

As an aside, interesting that lemmy doesn't render usernames as links. The jank is a feature!

[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't* forget Adams! We have at least 3 horrible Scott A's.

*or do

[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Through nootropics, they're capable of making 1000 internet arguments per second and they're all wrong

[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

“Eliezer has sometimes made statements that are much stronger than necessary for his larger point, and those statements turn out to be false upon close examination” is something I already generically believe, e.g. see here.

I get the impression that this guy (whose job at an AGI thinkpiece institute founded by a cryptobillionaire depends on believing this) would say this about ALL of EYs statements, leaving his larger point floating in the air, "supported" by whatever EY statements you aren't currently looking at.

[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

There was a satirical addon back in this day that would change the Firefox name every time you opened it to like WaterHippo or SunJackal to make fun of this.

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